What's wrong with my Ameraucana hen?

Well, maybe its a bantam or a bantam/standard mix? the pecking part is just part of the pecking order. I would put her in a cage during feeding time, with her own food and water.

 

First off, Welcome to BYC,

Ameraucanas usually take longer to start laying. Obviously she is at the bottom of the pecking order, she'll start laying soon enough.

I have two EEs that didn't start laying until they were just passed 7 months so you never know.

Good luck and so glad that you found us.

 

They can take alot longer (to lay), and yours may be a bantam. I would pick her up and see how her breastbone feels. You should be able to feel it, but it shouldn't be a sharp feeling.

Edited to clarify

 

Hi and

I think it's a combination of the breed and the pecking rank! I too have a beautiful Ameraucana who is smaller than the other hens and gets bullied, and she has not laid yet either...she is going on 9 months old...not to say yours will take that long, my girl Rocky has had a couple bumps in road...first a leg injury and now cocci....

I dont' seprate her to another cage or anything but I do spread the food around to multiple locations in the pen so she can definitely get food every day...I also added a couple extra small water sources to make sure she gets fluids! Sometimes I will stand near her while she is eating just to make sure!!

 

I have a splash pullet that has not started to lay yet. She was born the first week of March. I know she is healthy and happy just not ready to lay yet. I figure I won't see an egg out of her until the days start getting much longer and start warming up. Sometimes they just take a while to lay.

 

I thought my little Ameraucana X hen was late in laying, too ... till I discovered her secret nest under a juniper bush.
Now that I've got her laying in a net box, she's my best layer!

 

Give her some time, unless you have a light in the coop it may be another month or so. I have 4 EEs and they started laying later than the other breeds but have held up through the shorter days because I have a light that comes on in the coop at 3 AM. The best one I have lays nice sized blue eggs and she is smaller than even the other EEs. The best layers are my Golden Comets, some eggs won't even fit in the egg carton.

Oh and,

 

We have an Ameraucana who is 8 months old and still hasn't laid yet, we blame it on age and then the cold weather. Some hens just take their time.

 

I have 1 Ameraucana hen and 1 rooster. 2 RIR hens. The Ameraucana is noticably smaller than the RIRs and it took her several weeks longer to start laying. I think she was about 9 months old when she finally started. In my flock, she is the little queen though and keeps the bigger RIRs in line. My story was that she, being the queen, didn't have to 'do that'!!! But you can only hold off Mother Nature so long!

I'm sorry your little one is getting bullied to the point of not eating. There is some very good advice given though (I wouldn't know what to do either). Good luck!