No egg laying

[Nevin]

Hi - we have a blended flock, 3 pullets aged about 4 months old, and 7 hens in the 3 - 4 year range. Our days are darker and our temps cooler, and our older ladies have stopped laying now for a few weeks. The younger gals have laid sporadically but we’re not seeing the daily eggs we thought the youngsters would produce. Do we need to be concerned?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Nope, 4 months is 16 weeks and most start at 20+

 

[Bocktastic Quackles]

Like to piggy pack off this thread - our pullets are 7/8 months going on 9 for the older one and still NO eggs. They have calcium and a balanced diet and free range. We check the backyard and coop every day for eggs and nothing. Is something wrong or are they just late bloomers?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Like to piggy pack off this thread - our pullets are 7/8 months going on 9 for the older one and still NO eggs. They have calcium and a balanced diet and free range. We check the backyard and coop every day for eggs and nothing. Is something wrong or are they just late bloomers?

Do they free range? If so, they could be hiding their eggs. I had a late bloomer. At the time I thought she had never laid an egg. She hatched in May and all of her siblings started laying at around 24 weeks sometime in October or November of last year. All of them except her. Fast forward to March, when she was 11ish months old, I thought she was never going to lay until one day she disappeared! I found her on a nest in the middle of the woods, broody. She was sitting on 20 eggs! I calculated she had probably started laying in February, meaning she was about ten months old when she started laying. Shorter days can throw off the egg laying cycle even for young pullets who are sexually mature and capable of laying.

 

[Bocktastic Quackles]

Haha wow! 20 eggs!! A bounty! Yes they free range. Looks like I’ll have to do some digging in their favorite spots to see if they buried them. They have been making funny “chicken laying” sounds so something is going on. They got to be somewhere

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Haha wow! 20 eggs!! A bounty! Yes they free range. Looks like I’ll have to do some digging in their favorite spots to see if they buried them. They have been making funny “chicken laying” sounds so something is going on. They got to be somewhere

I ate every single one of them too! I did the float test first and then visually inspected them after cracking the egg, just to be safe.

 

[chicken fam]

Hi - we have a blended flock, 3 pullets aged about 4 months old, and 7 hens in the 3 - 4 year range. Our days are darker and our temps cooler, and our older ladies have stopped laying now for a few weeks. The younger gals have laid sporadically but we’re not seeing the daily eggs we thought the youngsters would produce. Do we need to be concerned?

they won't lay for a another month or two as for the old hens will probaly stop laying soon if they haven't now