Hi.
We have six chickens, five buff orpintons, about ten months old, and an ameraucana, a year and a month old, all hens!
We've recently moved to a new location, and the birds are in a makeshift coop until we can get a new one. The makeshift is a dog kennel, like one of those big pens, and we bring them into the garage in dog crates at night as a kind-of coop.
Last week it was super hot, it climbed up to the dreaded temperature, 105+. But this week, it's cooled down a lot. They don't really have proper nesting boxes because of the coop situation.
I'm including all this because the factiods lead up to one particular question:
"AHEM. Where are our eggs, birds?!?!?!" They haven't really laid at all for about two weeks except the ameraucana, with an almost-normal egg routine.
Our big clue is that there are down feathers everywhere with the occasional flight feather, so we suspect an early moult. They aren't showing any symptoms of disease, and they're happy as always.
Anyone have any ideas on when we'll get the eggs back?
We've recently moved to a new location, and the birds are in a makeshift coop until we can get a new one. The makeshift is a dog kennel, like one of those big pens, and we bring them into the garage in dog crates at night as a kind-of coop.
Last week it was super hot, it climbed up to the dreaded temperature, 105+. But this week, it's cooled down a lot. They don't really have proper nesting boxes because of the coop situation.
I'm including all this because the factiods lead up to one particular question:
"AHEM. Where are our eggs, birds?!?!?!" They haven't really laid at all for about two weeks except the ameraucana, with an almost-normal egg routine.
Our big clue is that there are down feathers everywhere with the occasional flight feather, so we suspect an early moult. They aren't showing any symptoms of disease, and they're happy as always.
Anyone have any ideas on when we'll get the eggs back?
