No eggs for a month after going broody?

[emcd124]

I have two hens. The Partridge Chanticleer is my regular egg layer, laying about 6 eggs a week. She has had issues this summer. First she had worms, but her egg production continued throughout that. We saw a vet and treated her and she seemed fine after. Then about a month after the worms episode, starting on June 20th, she went broody. She would sit on a totally empty nest. She would sit on the other chicken's eggs. She totally stopped laying while she was broody. She was hard to break but eventually after routinely dumping ice under her and finally removing the nesting box entirely, we got through that little chicken mental health issue.

But now a month later she STILL hasnt laid a single egg since she first went broody four weeks ago. I'm starting to get worried. She doesnt seem to have a single symptom of being egg bound. She does have scaly leg mites -- which I just figured out and will treat this weekend -- but from what I've seen online scaly leg mites dont stop egg production. It has been a bit hot but the heat hasnt stopped the Araucana from laying and she was always less of a layer (3-4 eggs a week).

Do I have to worry? Is not laying this long normal? If it was just the heat would it keep her from laying for a full month?

 

[BYCforlife]

My broody didn't lay ONE egg for 5 weeks after she was broody.

 

[aart]

she STILL hasnt laid a single egg since she first went broody four weeks ago.

So how long has it been since she stopped being broody?
Did removing the nest break her broodiness.....
...or did she just hunker down somewhere else?
How old is this bird?

It may take several weeks(or more) after the broodiness is fully broken for them to lay again. Another thought is that she may be getting ready to molt,
it's that time of year and they often molt after being broody.

Wonders where the other bird laid while nest was gone?

 

[emcd124]

It took 5-7 days to break her from being broody. I would ice her, she would go into the run, walking around like a normal chicken, and then the next day she'd be right at it again. The other bird only lays 3 eggs a week, so I think she laid two or three before I broke her friend of broodiness. My layer first laid on the wood shavings in the space in the coop where the removable nesting box usually sat, and then laid a second egg in the ground under the coop. The broody one actually went and tried brooding in the run sitting on top the egg left by her fellow hen, but that was easy enough to reach under her to remove and ice her again. After several days without access to the nesting box she gave up and seemed normal again, and didnt start brooding once the box was returned.

I think she is about a year and a half.