I have an 11-month-old EE hen, Bertha, who was a good layer until January. She started laying in early October and gave us 5 to 6 lovely pale green eggs a week, then went to giving us only 10 eggs for the entire month of January, the last one being on January 24th. It has been 4 weeks since the last time she laid an egg and/or squatted for us. Beings that she was 10 months old, I assumed she was going into a molt. No molt. She lost maybe a small handful of feathers, and even those were only small "under feathers" (I don't know the real word for them). We found those feathers in the yard and run about 2 weeks ago, and she started squatting again last weekend, but no eggs still.
She has no signs of worms or mites, and her poop looks normal. She's eating, foraging, doing well, socializing with the rest of the flock. And when I say she only lost a small handful of feathers, I'm talking maybe 30-50 tiny feathers over a course of a week.
She had also been top hen and very nonceremoniously decided to give that honor to Lola, the other EE.
She was from my original flock, and the health of every single one of those birds has had issues. I bragged that Bertha was the only one without issues, but that seems to not be so true now. Could a young hen (less than a year old, so I guess technically she's still a pullet) just lay for 3 months and then stop?
She has no signs of worms or mites, and her poop looks normal. She's eating, foraging, doing well, socializing with the rest of the flock. And when I say she only lost a small handful of feathers, I'm talking maybe 30-50 tiny feathers over a course of a week.
She had also been top hen and very nonceremoniously decided to give that honor to Lola, the other EE.
She was from my original flock, and the health of every single one of those birds has had issues. I bragged that Bertha was the only one without issues, but that seems to not be so true now. Could a young hen (less than a year old, so I guess technically she's still a pullet) just lay for 3 months and then stop?
