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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: aboud on September 15, 2017, 09:08:10 am

Title: Chickens Stopped Laying
Post by: aboud on September 15, 2017, 09:08:10 am

All of my chickens seem to have stopped laying. 
I have 5 bantams and 2 hybrids, the bantams live with a cockerel and the hybrids live alone.
They have always been a bit sporadic with laying, but they seem to have completely stopped. 
Could it be anything that I'm doing?
Thanks, Alex.

Title: Re: Chickens Stopped Laying
Post by: DavidandCollette on September 15, 2017, 09:40:19 am

Are they mounting? If so they will stop laying

Title: Re: Chickens Stopped Laying
Post by: twizzel on September 15, 2017, 10:17:15 am

Days are pulling in quick now which will slow them down. Mine started to tail off in August and now pretty much stopped, all are in the middle of moulting, probably won't come back into lay until February.

Title: Re: Chickens Stopped Laying
Post by: DavidandCollette on September 15, 2017, 12:12:50 pm

That should have read moulting sorry. Predictive text strikes again