white chook that never lays

[loidy]

hello, loidy here, new to this forum. can anyone out there help me with a puzzle i have with one of my chooks. she is nearly two years old, pure white (not sure what breed) i hatched her from a fertile egg i got from a friend. she is really healthy, very active, bossy, busy, has the biggest, reddest comb of all my 16 girls. but she never, to my knowledge, lays an egg. yet she has, i know once, i saw her do it, on the grass, a year or more ago. a very small egg, like a pullets.

 

[BeccaB00]

are you sure she's not 'hiding' them?

many hens lay their eggs under things, behind things...if your birds

free-range they could be anywhere! Not laying eggs isn't a good

sign.

 

[geebs]

Or eating them... (they can do this in a blink of an eye)

 

[BeccaB00]

Quote:
Yea I didn't think of that. She could be eating them as

soon as she lays them.

 

[loidy]

a lot of the time they are all in a (large) enclosure & house, until early afternoon, & i've never seen her taking any interest in the nesting boxes while the others are queuinig up etc. i've checked and she is a leghorn.

 

[loidy]

I have now found out that apparently, in a flock with no rooster (as mine is) sometimes one hen can take on the role of a rooster & have even been known to crow! this sounds very like my bird.

has anyone else come across this, & is there any way to snap her out of it????

thanks guys