Why is my white leghorn chicken not laying?

[3KillerBs]

She was debeaked when I bought it.

Where did you buy her from? Did you buy her as a young chick or as an adult bird?

If you bought her as an adult, a debeaked chicken is very likely to be an "ex-batt" -- that is, a retired battery egg layer who is past her prime as a commercial egg-layer. Chickens are almost never debeaked for the backyard, hobbyist market.

 

[The Moonshiner]

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[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

I think you will have eggs very soon if she is that old. I would be watching for interest from her in your nesting boxes. Do you have fake eggs in there for her? Or does she have other hens in your flock to look at for examples? My hens are all under a year so I placed some fake eggs in our nesting boxes to give them a hint and that helped. I didn’t want to hunt for eggs. Ya know?

My hen is a year old and still hasn’t laid an egg. ;-;

 

[thepick4uchicks]

My hen is a year old and still hasn’t laid an egg. ;-;

Goodness! I don’t know what to tell you about that Did she molt? I wouldn’t think that she should have had but being that she will be over a year old way before fall time her cycles are really going to be off. Her feathers are really going to be ratty looking if she has to wait until the fall to molt. Do you have older hens in your flock? It seems like she might have gotten into a laying cycle with older hens almost who of which stop laying in the fall normally and go through their molt and then lay very few or next to no eggs over the winter and their energy and calories goes towards feather production and then in the spring they start laying again and repeat this cycle each year.

 

[JustAChickenLoverOverHere]

Goodness! I don’t know what to tell you about that Did she molt? I wouldn’t think that she should have had but being that she will be over a year old way before fall time her cycles are really going to be off. Her feathers are really going to be ratty looking if she has to wait until the fall to molt. Do you have older hens in your flock? It seems like she might have gotten into a laying cycle with older hens almost who of which stop laying in the fall normally and go through their molt and then lay very few or next to no eggs over the winter and their energy and calories goes towards feather production and then in the spring they start laying again and repeat this cycle each year.

Molting is when they lose feathers and get new ones right? If so, no. Never molted before. I have another 2 hens with her, and one just started laying at 11.5 months. Other than that, no other hens. None that have laid, nada.

 

[j0hnharris]

Where did you buy her from? Did you buy her as a young chick or as an adult bird?

If you bought her as an adult, a debeaked chicken is very likely to be an "ex-batt" -- that is, a retired battery egg layer who is past her prime as a commercial egg-layer. Chickens are almost never debeaked for the backyard, hobbyist market.

I bought her from some guy on facebook, no when I bought them they were around 3 months old

 

[NatJ]

She is a white leghorn I'm pretty sure of that but she looks like that cause she bathed in a muddy place.

Are her feathers completely white when she's clean?

White Leghorns really should be WHITE, and I've never seen one that managed to get so dirty it looked like that. (Of course I haven't seen everything--yours might just be really good at getting dirty, in which case I'm impressed with her dirt-spreading skills!)

 

[Bigtom Turkey]

I am thinking it is male, because a female's comb flops over where as a males stands up.

 

[3KillerBs]

I bought her from some guy on facebook, no when I bought them they were around 3 months old

Was she considerably smaller than she is now?

I'm wondering if he lied about her age.

 

[Coops Dad]

That's not a white leghorn; I had 6 (down to 1 due to hawks seeing white chickens from 19 miles away) and white leghorn are white. All white, all over. Whoever sold her to you was mistaken.