We built the chickens a new coop the other day... it's a little bit spectacular but unfortunately I didn't quite match its spectacularity in my photography... anyway, since the new coop, we've had one egg in the box, and that's it.
I've searched high and low around their yard, and I can't find anything... it's been a week now since we've had any eggs - do you think they've just up and stopped laying?
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I hunted for over a week for my 'missing' eggs. Henny was really sneaky and it was only because I saw her come out from under a bush (where I had looked before) that I found her stash of 11 eggs. Maybe they weren't all hers either. I think the other girls had been making donations. I moved her into the she and she got off them...twice. She finally sat on them again but there is a bad smell in the shed so I don't think there will be chickens from them. I am going to buy some day olds next Wednesday and sneak them under her. Won't she get a surprise?
PS...Don't be too hard on 'Anonymous'. She is my wonderful sister, just having a go at me. I always get her back!
Oh no Hazel, I thought she was someone you didn't know, and so I had a go at her! Lol, I defend my people!!! Tell her I am so sorry, but she called your pottager pathetic! I couldn't just let that one go.
Where were they laying before, somewhere dark, cos they dont like laying out in the open sometimes...in saying that I have three girls, and no eggs anymore........no eggs for months and months and months...I just feed em, and get nothing in return...........time for some new ones.......
Suzanne, it might have been a little bit darker yes, I hadn't thought of that. I could quite easily close over part of the front where the nesting box is, if they haven't started laying by next Saturday I will... are yours getting a bit old to lay now?
I agree with Hazel. They can find the weirdest places to lay ... and once one does it the others seem to copy. Ours laid in the compost bin for a while until we worked out what was happening.
Do you think then if I put some eggs into the nesting box that they might start laying there again?
Hi Ali, Chickens don't accept change very well, give them time to settle into thier new surrounds and they will soon be happy and laying again for you...Do you still have there old laying box? It may help to settle them again. If not, then yes put some eggs into thier box, it may make them relax a little...
Good Luck
Karen :)
Thanks for that Karen, I did think that they might have been a bit discombobulated (I just wanted to use that fabulous word), but I also worried that I had put them off forever. There was one egg in the box today, so presumably at least one is happy to lay in there. I've left the egg there for the night, hopefully the others will see it as a sign. A big pointing arrow, lay eggs here.
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