3 Reasons Why Your Chickens Are Not Laying Eggs
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- If you are wondering why are chickens not laying eggs? In this video I talk about 3 reasons why my chickens are not laying eggs.
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Great points about what can stress out chickens. They flourish when they live in a peaceful environment, just like the rest of us!
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Becky, it would be great to pan the camera and show the chicken roosts and the spacing of the nesting boxes. Thanks for your work.
It is in the video☀️❤️☀️
You rock Becky ! Now that it's getting cold here in Kentucky, my 5 adult chickens have slowed down in production. ( I told my neighbors that they were on strike. Lol ) now I know why. Thanks for all the tips! Love your page, and I was the first like on this video.
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So nice to see you back lady
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I haven't seen your videos lately, so happy to see you. A breath of fresh air. Take care.
So happy when I see you post. ❤ hope you’re doing well, Becky 🙏🏻😃
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We always enjoy your channel. I don’t comment very much…. but we certainly appreciate what you’re doing….
Good Morning Becky. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday. 😊😊
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I don't have a homestead, I don't have a farm. I have a small garden. I love watching becky🌻✨️👣
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@@BeckysHomestead love you Becky. I have been watching for years 🌻
Common sense animal advocate. This is one of the many things I like about you, Becky.
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I started this year to produce Australorp chickens. I consider them one of the better breeds. I used to raise leghorn and amrock. I like your video.
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My chickens this year have stopped laying eggs.
First of all they have free range get organic egg laying feed. Chicken acceptable Fruits and vegetables for snacks along with the bugs that they find around including snakes.
I changed their layer feed... To a better quality
Got a few eggs early spring. expensive feed $$$$$.
I think it's now just their old age as they stopped laying eggs completely...
Over the spring debating to get new chicks
I should have followed my gut instinct and got some. I'll have to wait till next year spring.
Now I have no eggs . All my hens do is scratch in the compost of which is a big help.
I changed them back to a lower quality feed since there no longer laying.
Thank you ....
Same situation here. Hoping to add some chicks in the spring. But even my young hens have stopped. They only started to lay a few months ago and now nothing.
Thanks Becky! My Satin Silkie is 10 months old & I’m still waiting on her to lay an egg🤪 maybe it will be soon…thanks for the reminder on how long it takes some chickens to start laying. Always appreciate your info & I do have your book😊
Again,Thanks!🐤🐔🐣
She might wait until next spring, now that it is colder
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Also, when they are moulting/getting their new feathers
Thank you Becky, this is very helpful. You are da woman.
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I currently have 17 chickens outside in 3 separate coops. They dont get to free range,but we always give them scraps,scratch grains,and layer pellets. Im gonna almost quick giving them grains and switch to an all flock pellet and see how they do. Currently theyll gobble up the grains and scraps but only nibble at the layer pellets. I just want a more nutritious diet as the grains aren't supposed to be but 10% of a birds diet. Ive had 2 die unexpectedly in recent months and i fear that their diet may of been to blame. I also keep them oyster shells and grit weekly too. Theyre still laying ok,but their 4 years old and slowing down alot.
Love your videos Becky. I used to live on an acreage years ago & had chickens. But I've lived in town for 11 years now. But I still watch your videos ❤
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You are so right about the older hens having a hard time flying down from high places. One of ours was scared to jump down from a perch an when she did she looked like it hurt her legs. We keep things lower now.
You can also build a good wide chicken ladder if redoing things hard☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead Good idea! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this video. Yep, there is stress everywhere for everything
I love your channel good points I have chickens I love them happy homestead 🌻🐓
My chickens stopped laying when they began moulting. That was 2 months ago and the egg production has not yet resumed. :-( I don't feed them meats but I do give them soldier fly larvas and they also have a really good, varied diet. No stress that I know of. It is weird.
I have the same egg dilemma. Eight of my + 2 year olds went through their first major molt at the same time. My four 4 month olds have not started laying yet. First time in over 10 years we have not had eggs. It is going on 3 months 😢 Have not tried feeding meat - will give it a try.
I’m feeding everything doing everything recommended and have five chickens. Hardly any eggs all this year. They have their own food forest and get fresh herbs and meat every day. And they’re protected with three layers of fencing cause we live in the wilderness. It’s been frustrating.
Feed some actual meat every day☀️❤️☀️
Thank you!
@@ellenc.1685 current status now ?
what is the problem ?
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Nice place Becky , we're in Texas most of our chickens 🐔 are molting at the moment some are even growing a lot of pin father's also , thinks alot for this cool video and have a great blessed day AMEN .
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Where can I buy a couple backyard chickens? Do I need a rooster if I don't want more chickens? Thank you for your videos.
This was so helpful
I have 5 hens, they haven't laid eggs in 4 months now, 2 of them, I noticed had poopy butts. Then I looked at there vent area and yes mites. I live in the city, and keep there coup very clean daily. So this to will delay your eggs.
I have muscovy.
I saw a video of a guy who collected beetles from his farm/garden. Looked like about 4 cups per dAy
Hey…side note…nice job on the house foundation. How do they keep the rodents and snakes out? Tx. Lovely tips on the hens.
I get plenty of eggs and always have. When people complain that their chickens stopped laying I wonder what they're talking about.
I did have a mite infestation once and egg production dramatically slowed until I cleared up that situation.
My chickens have plenty of room and their nesting boxes are easily accessible.
I've trained my dogs, Border Collie and Irish Setter, to ignore the chickens. The chickens know this. They can free range and march around the dogs with no fear. One my previous dogs was so tolerant of the chickens that when standing in the yard one day a chicken jumped up on her back. She just looked at me, "Really? I have to endure this?" The dog just stood their and waited until I walked over and pushed the chicken off.
I always give the chickens scraps including meat - and chicken. I also have more eggs than I can use and no one to give them to so occasionally I'll cook those and feed them back to the chickens. (The dogs will get some too.)
I do not pamper my chickens. I make sure they have feed and water. I occasionally clean out the coop, throw them scraps and let them free range. I collect _a lot_ of eggs.
Not just DOGS. I have a herd of feral cats who manage to break into the coop. They have taken birds off their roosts and dragged them out... The smaller ones break in and eat all the food... Between these two stressors, I haven't seen an egg since September... The herd of cats has been thinned considerably, but they still hunt fgor the easy food in the coop.
BUT I will try to set up a couple nesting boxes lower down.
If my birds tend to huddle together it has to do with being cold, this time of year.
Don’t leave food in the coop. Feed twice a day, let them get their fill then no more food in the coop until dinner. Food in the coop 24/7 draws all kinds of trouble☀️❤️☀️
When I hang out my fly bags and they get full, I let ‘em dry out and just feed em to the chickens. My hens love it.
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Since you live down south your videos don't really take into account the cold weather. That is often why ours slow down or even stop from Nov-Mar. They don't like going out in the snow, there is nothing much to free range, and their bodies have to work hard to stay warm.
True, but if you feed them meat every day, they will grow in plenty of down to stay warm and still lay eggs, trust me, mine lay eggs even in very cold temps. Then you have to collect frozen eggs, bring them in and let them thaw out.
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@@BeckysHomestead I do give them dog food per your recommendation (thank you) and they are on high quality layer crumbles.
awesome information! i didn't know that. thanks so much for sharing! i don't have chickens but i have a house in the countryside and might easily get some and apply your advice :)
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Bug control and yard fertilizer. Eggs a plus
My girls go crazy for sardines. A can every other day for the two of them.
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Oh good sunny onion 34616 months ago finally gave me the answer I needed. I have two chickens and trying to figure out how much each day each chicken should get a meat thank you thank you.
Fun video!!!
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Hey Becky thank you for the video information some of the information that you said I know already from listening and watching your videos and some of it I did not know thank you and I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving you and your family
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Nice informative video
Does dried meal worms count as meat. I give my chickens meal worms daily as a snack. I have 3 . A handful eack
Those things are expensive dried out and like hollow. I personally would add some meat. ☀️❤️☀️
Thank you! I will be feeding my chicks meat!
Good they will love you for it and reward you with lots of eggs☀️❤️☀️
Awesome!
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Why the legs of a chicken gets collapse? It uses it's wings to reduce the impact.
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My rooster is four months old and is chasing my older ones so they huddle in a corner in my yard what can I do to make sure they can feel better?
Separate the rooster.
Get rid of the rooster or build him his own little coop.
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That`s amazing, thank . If you need any help, I would love to work with you, for free! just to enjoy nature!
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I heard if you add a rooster to your flock your chickens will lay more eggs.
A rooster has absolutely no effect on how many eggs a hen lays, the only thing a rooster probably does is stress the hens out☀️❤️☀️
Maybe less eggs but I have heard about hens ganging up on a rooster and eventually the rooster started laying on the hens eggs but after the hens dominated the rooster and wasn't allowing him to mate with any of them he started to eat the hens eggs and the hens would go on strike and not lay eggs for 2 weeks but they still would dominate the rooster one hen actually climbed on the roosters back and she was riding around on his back the rooster was making a moaning sound and the hen on top was crowing like a rooster. But they eventually worked out so I am told.
WOW a microcosm of todays society in the chicken yard.@@Light178-tc5eb
Yes meat eaters, mini t-Rex…😂
Did you say to feed them hotdogs and not chicken? I think that is backwards. Cannibalism has to be better for them than hotdogs…lol
I love all beef hotdogs and I’m healthy and strong. ☀️❤️☀️
I called her Elizabeth Taylor cause she beautiful like Elizabeth Taylor...excellent experience with 🐔 chicken
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Oh pleeze!!!
@@SK-nd7db only things she doesn't have purple eyes, I do photos retouch for Elizabeth Taylor in Manhattan many years when she was young and this chicken lady very looking like her