Stopped laying?

[Mandi M]

What time do you open up the coop in the morning?

Normally around 630 am. They normally finish laying around 430 pm

 

[Mandi M]

Are they molting?

They don't look like it. In particular (the only one I can tell for sure) is my leghorn, she would give me 6 eggs a week and she is the only one that lays a white egg so I know it is hers but I haven't had one since last Thursday.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Normally around 630 am. They normally finish laying around 430 pm

I forgot to mention, when I locked them up to fix the egg laying issue, I let them out once my problem hen laid her egg for the day!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Normally around 630 am. They normally finish laying around 430 pm

It takes about 25 hours for a hen to form an egg, so every day each hen will lay an hour later. @aart has a link to a really cool little video. Maybe she will post it here.

 

[aart]

They seem to be acting fine- they free range so it is possible they are hiding but I did try keeping them in their coop much later in the day one day and didn't see a difference.

Takes longer than one day to change the habit.
Free range birds sometimes need to be 'trained'(or re-trained) to lay in the coop nests, especially new layers. Leaving them locked in the coop for a week or so can help 'home' them to lay in the coop nests. Fake eggs/golf balls in the nests can help 'show' them were to lay. They can be confined to coop and maybe run 24/7 for a few days to a week, provided you have adequate space and ventilation, or confine them at least until mid to late afternoon. You help them create a new habit and they will usually stick with it. ..at least for a good while, then repeat as necessary.

It takes about 25 hours for a hen to form an egg, so every day each hen will lay an hour later. @aart has a link to a really cool little video. Maybe she will post it here.

 

[Doc7]

It takes about 25 hours for a hen to form an egg, so every day each hen will lay an hour later. @aart has a link to a really cool little video. Maybe she will post it here.

They’ve got to be able to move it around a little bit at convenience as they don’t lay eggs at night .... so every 10 days or so they would then build up 10 hours of “head start“ and could lay eggs in mornings early.

example egg laying times;
7 am, 8 am, 9 am , 10 am, 11 am, 12 pm, 1 pm , 2 , 3, 4, 5, 6 .... now they wait 13 hours and lay in the morning. But the next egg is now only a few hours behind that one, and virtually always, they will not lay it until the following day.
i think this is why vast majority of eggs are in morning, and not even throughout the day in my flock.

There are 6-10 eggs in the cycle whenever I cut one of my hens open so even if it takes 25 hours it isn’t like they are continuously coming in that time or those hens I have cut open were all going to lay a half dozen eggs over the next one day.

 

[Kdlevesque]

All of my chickens stopped laying last summer and didn’t lay all winter either. The funny thing is… My husband and I are getting a divorce and he left in February and the day after he left one started laying again. I guess they didn’t like him either ha ha!