The heat will cause diarrhea in your birds, Kristi, and a slight drop in egg production. Keeping them well hydrated with vitamins/electros in their water is one way you can help them cope. Unless of course you are Bigfam and can weasel your hubs into installing A/C in the coop.
Are you serious? Someone has an A/C in their coop? How does that work. Glad to hear about that heat thing. I have one bird that had diarrhea for about a day, she seems better now, that was back when it was so hot those couple of days. They sure went thru the water then.The heat will cause diarrhea in your birds, Kristi, and a slight drop in egg production. Keeping them well hydrated with vitamins/electros in their water is one way you can help them cope. Unless of course you are Bigfam and can weasel your hubs into installing A/C in the coop.
There are many reasons as to what it could be. Some breeds take longer to mature than others. It might be that it has been too hot. You might have too many roosters for the number of hens. They might be hiding their eggs & you just haven't found their nest. If they were scared recently, that can cause a stop in egg production. If you do not have extra calcium available or if they are not eating it, they might be laying soft shelled eggs & then eating them. The list goes on & on.
Well, you definitely have too many roosters. You only need one roo per 10-12 hens. Any more and the girls will have no peace.
