Pullet laying 1 egg a week

[LikeTurkeys]

Do you let your chickens outside? Could it be she found a new great nesting spot that one time she was locked out?

 

[newbiechickenmamma11]

Do you let your chickens outside? Could it be she found a new great nesting spot that one time she was locked out?

Nah unfortunately that isn't the case. They have a large enclosed run so she was just locked out of the coop. I looked around the run and she definitely isn't laying in there!

 

[LikeTurkeys]

I've found eggs in some crazy places! Under nest boxes and inside feeders!

But if she's not hiding eggs then it is probably something else. What breed is she? And is her comb full and red (depending on breed) or does it look a little shrunken maybe?

 

[newbiechickenmamma11]

I've found eggs in some crazy places! Under nest boxes and inside feeders!

But if she's not hiding eggs then it is probably something else. What breed is she? And is her comb full and red (depending on breed) or does it look a little shrunken maybe?

Wow some creative nesting sites! She definitely isn't doing that. She's an easter egger/cross breed. Her comb is full and red. Every day or two she does still enter the nesting box and sits on the eggs for an hour or two sometimes, but she never lays (except for once a week, for the past month). I know she's not laying as I have a camera tracking who's laying what

 

[LikeTurkeys]

Wow some creative nesting sites! She definitely isn't doing that. She's an easter egger/cross breed. Her comb is full and red. Every day or two she does still enter the nesting box and sits on the eggs for an hour or two sometimes, but she never lays (except for once a week, for the past month). I know she's not laying as I have a camera tracking who's laying what

Clues, clues... This is helpful info. And wow, I might need to hear more about this camera tracking system, been looking at ways to track which hens lay which eggs for a long time now.


My thinking is now:
1) She might be starting to go broody and the hormones are making her lay less before she cuts out completely. Does she make low clucking sounds if you approach her in the nest?
2) Could be the start of internal laying. Some eggs are making it through and some are going inside... You won't necessarily know until it's been happening for a while and you can feel the mass in her abdomen. I would hope not because it's next to impossible to treat. But you can pinch her abdomen just to check if there's anything hard or otherwise unusual that you can feel now.