I have raised laying chickens for 8 years. Used to buy chicks from TSC and bought Dumor feeds. Never a problem with the chickens or their eggs.
This year I 'upgraded' to rare purebred chickens, lol. Everything seemed the same as TSC chickens until recently. Many have stopped laying after only a few months!!
I haven't changed feed, locations or anything. I know it's getting dark early but I have never put a light on my 1st year layers and they always lay right thru the winter.
So my Lavender Ameraucana hen and Rumpless Araucana hen are 8 months old. They started laying at 5-6 months and I got 1-2 blue eggs a day.
Now I haven't had a blue eggs in 6-8 weeks! I thought maybe they were laying in the woods next door so for 4 days so far I've kept them locked up so they will have to lay in the coop. No eggs!
Are they just spent chickens at 8 months old? I've never seen spring chickens stop laying in September!
What can be done?
Thanks for any advice
This year I 'upgraded' to rare purebred chickens, lol. Everything seemed the same as TSC chickens until recently. Many have stopped laying after only a few months!!
I haven't changed feed, locations or anything. I know it's getting dark early but I have never put a light on my 1st year layers and they always lay right thru the winter.
So my Lavender Ameraucana hen and Rumpless Araucana hen are 8 months old. They started laying at 5-6 months and I got 1-2 blue eggs a day.
Now I haven't had a blue eggs in 6-8 weeks! I thought maybe they were laying in the woods next door so for 4 days so far I've kept them locked up so they will have to lay in the coop. No eggs!
Are they just spent chickens at 8 months old? I've never seen spring chickens stop laying in September!
What can be done?
Thanks for any advice
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