MYSTERY!!... EXPERT OPINION NEEDED... one year old black copper maran hen has NEVER laid an egg...

[Ol Grey Mare]

Bird shown is definitely a hen. Was she sourced from a commercial or private producer? Is she otherwise healthy in her behavior and demeanor?

 

[Redhead Rae]

I have only had 2 other hens in my flock with her... and they are both laying because I have checked everyone's vents and they are Easter Eggers and I'm getting 2 different shades of green eggs... I have also confined her for 2 days as well and no eggs...

Are you sure she isn't an olive egger? OEs are a maran cross. Your EE girls could be laying similar shade of egg and she is laying another.

 

[sourland]

She is apparently healthy going by that picture. She may be congenitally deformed, but by the looks of that picture my gut feeling is that she will start laying and sometime soon.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Hidden nest or egg eater?

 

[Canuckclucker]

Bird shown is definitely a hen. Was she sourced from a commercial or private producer? Is she otherwise healthy in her behavior and demeanor?

Private breeder... healthy otherwise but she doesn't assume the "squat" position which I find interesting... no aggression or dominance in nature...

 

[Canuckclucker]

Hidden nest or egg eater?

No to either

 

[jolenesdad]

Any stress? I’ve got a welsummer that laid just two eggs, we had a hawk attack multiple chickens and kill several. She immediately stopped laying and didn’t lay for 6 months and this week on her first birthday, started again.

I was going to start a thread about it to see if anyone had a chicken suddenly stop and hold her eggs for that long. Her first three eggs this week were clearly damaged internally, in assuming from the attack. She is kept fully enclosed now and there’s nothing that could have currently caused this.

Today she gave us a perfectly formed egg with limited blotches that looks like she is just firing up, I’d consider this her first egg of this season.

 

[Peppercorngal]

Listen, chickens are chickens right? They do and do not. I have a speckled Sussex that has never laid as well, and she is 13 months old now. She did root around in the nests for a day or two and I had hopes, but she NEVER comes near them now. She is very healthy, friendly and a great little hen, but she just does not lay. She has a great personality so I don't care if she lays or not. Her name is Sadie Thompson.

 

[Canuckclucker]

I got her from a private

Are you sure she isn't an olive egger? OEs are a maran cross. Your EE girls could be laying similar shade of egg and she is laying another.

She is definitely not an EE. I went and saw the pen and there were only BCM heritage roosters and hens, picked the eggs from the nests myself and hatched them. Another friend of mine went to the same breeder and hatched them a couple of weeks after mine and hers are laying (started 2-3 months ago).

 

[Canuckclucker]

Any stress? I’ve got a welsummer that laid just two eggs, we had a hawk attack multiple chickens and kill several. She immediately stopped laying and didn’t lay for 6 months and this week on her first birthday, started again.

I was going to start a thread about it to see if anyone had a chicken suddenly stop and hold her eggs for that long. Her first three eggs this week were clearly damaged internally, in assuming from the attack. She is kept fully enclosed now and there’s nothing that could have currently caused this.

Today she gave us a perfectly formed egg with limited blotches that looks like she is just firing up, I’d consider this her first egg of this season.

Some slight stress towards the end of last summer only minor stuff like I sold the cockerals that were part of her hatch and her other mate (a hen that was also part of her hatch that I kept) died of unknown causes... then I added the 2 EEs and it's been the same 3 since... and no other stress at all since then as well