My chickens and ducks quit laying eggs early summer of 2022, but they were under stress, molting, and on a cheap feed. So I didn't think anything of it.
For months now they've all been in new spacious pens, on a layer diet, they're all young and they are all in good health. I've had no predator problems, no illnesses, and no lack of food available to them. But I haven't seen a duck egg since summer, and the last of my chicken eggs came from the silkies, who quit laying last fall. I have bantam chickens, standard chickens, laying chickens, welsh harlequin ducks, and saxony ducks. My birds all range from one four year old hen, to a dozen or so eight month old hens. They should all be laying, they're all on a 20% protein ration, but only one is laying.
Miss Houdini. She escapes the pen no matter how hard I try to chicken proof it. She sleeps with the ducks and eats with the cats. I'm thinking the only reason she's laying is because she eats the cat food.
I've been hearing from many a chicken keeper in my area that their chickens quit laying last year. We expect them to quit laying for some of the harder months, and when they're molting, but this is just ridiculous. Doug and Stacy from youtube realeased a video talking about this very subject (don't ask me to link it, some snowflake will surely keel over and die because Doug has his own political opinion on this subject
), which has me wondering if maybe someone else here is getting suspicious about the lack of eggs?
If you have any ideas about why I'm not getting eggs I'm all ears! If not, just lemme know what you're feeding your laying chickens and ducks. If you're in the same boat, let's compare feed, because at this point I have no idea why mine aren't laying.
For months now they've all been in new spacious pens, on a layer diet, they're all young and they are all in good health. I've had no predator problems, no illnesses, and no lack of food available to them. But I haven't seen a duck egg since summer, and the last of my chicken eggs came from the silkies, who quit laying last fall. I have bantam chickens, standard chickens, laying chickens, welsh harlequin ducks, and saxony ducks. My birds all range from one four year old hen, to a dozen or so eight month old hens. They should all be laying, they're all on a 20% protein ration, but only one is laying.
Miss Houdini. She escapes the pen no matter how hard I try to chicken proof it. She sleeps with the ducks and eats with the cats. I'm thinking the only reason she's laying is because she eats the cat food.
I've been hearing from many a chicken keeper in my area that their chickens quit laying last year. We expect them to quit laying for some of the harder months, and when they're molting, but this is just ridiculous. Doug and Stacy from youtube realeased a video talking about this very subject (don't ask me to link it, some snowflake will surely keel over and die because Doug has his own political opinion on this subject
), which has me wondering if maybe someone else here is getting suspicious about the lack of eggs?If you have any ideas about why I'm not getting eggs I'm all ears! If not, just lemme know what you're feeding your laying chickens and ducks. If you're in the same boat, let's compare feed, because at this point I have no idea why mine aren't laying.
