Praying to the Egg Gods....Please send an egg to my Barney

[CasadasHens]

Fantastic news, I was wondering if anything had happened yet. I had to rescue one little home-raised hen from the rest of my flock and keep her with her brother separately because she was being bullied so much. She came to point-of-lay but nothing happened. I had a chance to rehome the pair of them and decided it was the kindest thing to do. On checking with the new owners, they reported that she had laid an egg every day including the day she was moved there..........

!! I hope I shall have more luck with my next batch of chicks!

 

[chicksurreal]

That's so awesome!

 

[fasschicks]

Well, I might have been mistaken on who laid the tiny brown egg. I thought it was my barnavelder, but it doesn't appear she has laid anything yet or maybe that was the only one. I am so confused. I put my husbands game cam into the coop to see who was laying what and I see her laying on the nest for 1-2 hours at a time, but she never lays an egg. Is this strange for an almost 1-year old barney? She has been doing this nesting thing the nest box since mid-late November. I have 3 brown layers and I have never had more than 2 brown eggs in the nest at one time. Is there a chance she might never lay an egg? She tries awful hard and really seems like she should be laying eggs.

I do know from the video, that she sometimes gets kicked out of the nest by the head hen - would that cause her not to lay eggs? She is usually in the nest for an hour or two before she is kicked out.

Anyone encounter this before - a bird nesting for hours and lays nothing? Again, she has been doing this for almost 6 months. My husband always jokes that she will be the first for the stew pot, but I told him that we need to wait until at least the end of summer before we make a decision. Got to give her a shot to work this out.

Wendy