UPDATE: SHE IS SICK!! SUGGESTIONS? UPDATE: Is there a chance a production breed will never produce an egg? see pics of our girl

[aart]

she is now running from me..... I was out there pretty frequently today. What does this mean? @aart,

She's tired of you stalking her
Just be patient, I know it's hard for your first pullets, but you're just stressing her(and yourself) out.

 

[Bawkbok]

Thanks for the reply. You're right. I was worried about an egg bound situation but as my mother used to say - don't borrow trouble. I'm going to let nature do it's thing - or not - as this case may be. Happy Friday.

 

[Savitar]

I had one hen that didn't lay an egg until she was over a year old. People here kept insisting it would happen any day (it didn't); that there was a hidden nest (there wasn't). After a year, I found a "fairy egg" in the run - a tiny, elongated egg. It was so small I thought a robin's nest was in the tree above and the egg somehow fell into the run. Then a week or two later, she started laying. So some hens are just late.

 

[Bawkbok]

Thanks for sharing this, Savitar. She has gone into the layer at least a dozen times today for a few minutes then emerges again. So she's thinking about it. It will happen whenever it's supposed to.
It's so cute, the other two follow her in and stay with her until she comes out. Probably wondering - what the heck you doing in here, it's not coop time yet....

 

[aart]

She has gone into the layer at least a dozen times today for a few minutes then emerges again.

"into the layer"?
You mean a nest in the coop?

Is she also being more vocal and scratching around the bedding in the nest? That's always been the most significant sign that eggs are imminent IME.

 

[Bawkbok]

Yes, the layer is s separate part of the coop (omlet). She is vocal when she comes out. No scratching of the bedding which is an aspen pad with pine shavings on top. She has made three different depressions where shy settles. I guess she's trying to choose her position. She is still eating, drinking, pooping, acting normal. Tail is up but she is definitely more restless and chatty.

 

[WingItRanch]

Yes, the layer is s separate part of the coop (omlet). She is vocal when she comes out. No scratching of the bedding which is an aspen pad with pine shavings on top. She has made three different depressions where shy settles. I guess she's trying to choose her position. She is still eating, drinking, pooping, acting normal. Tail is up but she is definitely more restless and chatty.

This sounds like good news.

Some of mine squat before laying, some show interest in nest boxes, some start eating oyster shell. But ALL get very noisy right before their first egg. That has been my main indicator.

 

[aart]

Yes, the layer is s separate part of the coop (omlet).

Is that what omlet named it?

 

[Bawkbok]

Not sure I understand the question? Omlet (the company) calls the interior part of the Cube (the coop) the layer which is simply an area partitioned off by a removeable plastic wall with a door that slides closed.

 

[aart]

Not sure I understand the question? Omlet (the company) calls the interior part of the Cube (the coop) the layer which is simply an area partitioned off by a removeable plastic wall with a door that slides closed.

Right, their naming nomenclature.
Most call it a nest.