No eggs for a year now :(

[Diannastarr]

i know what you mean yes, i remember spiting wood at night in 14 below weather in new England , in just a tee shirt boots & jeans , strange hard work in that kind of cold still makes you sweat , and i would have to take off my coat to split enough wood for a day or 2 , plus there were days when i had to feed my hens snow when we had no water, it was all frozen ,yes that is cold all right, HA thats why i moved to a southern climate....lol...

 

[TexasSam]

this is my experience with a similar problem & also Jedjackson could be right , but i have cured a lot of things with good nutrition, so here is my story = i bought a year old hen from a breeder, a top laying breed like your RIR , i put her into quarantine for months , just to make sure she was well and to keep my flock safe from any unknown illnesses she could have , she never laid an egg for all that time, then she would lay an egg every once in a wile , this went on since 2014 when i got her at 1 year old , then last spring i noticed she was laying more eggs then her usual, and it was not until this past august that i noticed she was eating the cat food i leave out for my new cat, then this hen starts laying an egg every other day or so,why would that happen...? the only thing i could think of is its got to be the cat food..? she may have had a nutritional problem all along, and i feed my flock well sprouted barley & a good quality layer feed & hi quality vitamins some hard boiled egg & leftovers & what ever else i have around fruits & veggies and they free range , so you never know, but one thing it cant hurt to try a bit of dry cat food & you could also try a bit of mashed up hard boiled egg in her food and see what happens..? my other hens never ate the cats food so when i saw her eating cat food it was a bit unusual to me, and since she started eating cat food , she starts laying eggs, so i guess it worth a try,

It's the protein in the cat food. The cat food has animal protein and most chicken feed does not. Try giving her boiled eggs chopped not whole also dried fish and mealworms three times A week see what happens. This is also good when they molt.

 

[Diannastarr]

excellent yes , my dad always said an animal can cure it self, if it is left to its own devices & left to find the foods it needs , and the protein in the cat food fit the bill for my hen and she found what she really needed in the cat food, so as we live and learn from our animals ,its always good...!!! and very interesting to say the least ...!!