So, have you ever had a chicken to NOT mature and never lay?

What breed?

 

Quote:it would help to know the breed, some take longer to mature then others.

 

I had a buff that never seemed to mature...never laid...then up and died. Don't know if the other chickens "knew" she was different or something, no outward marks, but almost appeared to slowly starve...very sad as she was sweet.

 

i have some cinnamon queens that are 18 months old out of the 6 i say 3 still arent laying. dont know why either.

 

i have a 12-18 mo old easter egger (silvery-white all over) who has never laid more than a couple eggs. i know she laid at least twice as i had ten hens and ten eggs two days. (unless, of course, i missed an egg or one was laid at night, or another hen laid two in one day, etc. so that two of the ten eggs were from the same hen--all of which has happened). so she may never have laid. bottom line is i have NEVER seen her in a nest box, which is really, really odd.

she is about to make up for it by transforming magically into chicken and dumplings.

 

Honestly I have an Easter Egger who gives me 1 egg every 2 months, and an Ameraucana who's given me 4 eggs in her 2 months of laying age now and I never think once of turning them into food. I didn't get chickens to get eggs. . . that's what buying someone else's eggs are for.

 

my chickens are 26 weeks and only one is looking ready




her name is patch






she already started squating!!!

 

Quote:Give her time. Chickens are individuals and each will mature at their own pace.