Who here isn't getting eggs?

Are you getting eggs?

  • Chickens are laying–commercial feed

    Votes: 10 62.5%
  • Ducks are laying–commercial feed

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Chickens are laying–homemade/locally sourced ration

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Ducks are laying–homemade/locally sourced ration

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chickens aren't laying–commercial feed

    Votes: 5 31.3%
  • Ducks aren't laying–commercial feed

    Votes: 1 6.3%
  • Chickens aren't laying–homemade/locally sourced ration

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ducks aren't laying–homemade/locally sourced ration

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    16

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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.

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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.
 
I got a few eggs from one hen in early January, then nothing. However, she is old and notoriously erratic. However, I can’t find a reason why my younger RIR is not laying yet unless she is hiding them somewhere. Most likely, it is still too early in the season for us.

I use the usual TSC purina layer feed.
 
I'm not but I raise gamefowl. Mine quit from end of summer molt till about mid February
It almost feels like mine are reverting back to their junglefowl ways😂

Mine are all egg or meat production breeds. Except for the silkies, those are just for egg hatching.
 
I got a few eggs from one hen in early January, then nothing. However, she is old and notoriously erratic. However, I can’t find a reason why my younger RIR is not laying yet unless she is hiding them somewhere. Most likely, it is still too early in the season for us.

I use the usual TSC purina layer feed.
I think the TSC feed was the feed that Doug was warning about.
What's the temp like in your area?
 
All my birds are laying.
It's still winter and it's been unusually overcast, your birds are either still on winter break
Seems odd that they would start their winter break so early in the year though.
or entering henopause.
I only have one senior hen. Houdini is my second oldest chicken, and she isn't even two.
The saxony are two years old, but they shouldn't slow down too much until three, and my welshies have never layed yet.
 
11 chickens here in NJ in the winter. Although we've had mild weather, it is still winter. There still is not enough day light needed for laying. I do not light or heat my coops. I feed my ladies Kalmbach feed which is a family owned company. I have 2 7month old CCLB pullets who are laying almost every day. Chickens of this age are known to lay through their first winter. My 2 year Olds went through their first big molt in October. I have not seen an egg from them since but it's to be expected. My 3 year Olds randomly lay. A Black Marans and a SLW. My EE laid Nov and Dec but stopped in January. I accept my ladies as they are. When they bless me with eggs I am grateful.
 
You say they are on layer feed, but don't mention what kind.

My birds are laying. But not all. It is still winter. Unfortunately they do not have an alarm clock that goes "Oh hey! It's almost February, time to start laying again!"
 
11 chickens here in NJ in the winter. Although we've had mild weather, it is still winter. There still is not enough day light needed for laying. I do not light or heat my coops. I feed my ladies Kalmbach feed which is a family owned company. I have 2 7month old CCLB pullets who are laying almost every day. Chickens of this age are known to lay through their first winter. My 2 year Olds went through their first big molt in October. I have not seen an egg from them since but it's to be expected. My 3 year Olds randomly lay. A Black Marans and a SLW. My EE laid Nov and Dec but stopped in January. I accept my ladies as they are. When they bless me with eggs I am grateful.
I have added supplemental lighting, and Houdini my only layer is sleeping without the light in the duck barn.
I am honestly just worried. I have gotten more eggs in colder weather, with no light, less feed, and older birds. This is just so weird to me.
 

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