[GARRY]

CAN YOU HELP I HAVE A HEN WHICH I GOT IN JULY, SHE WAS BORN IN  MAY THIS YEAR AND HAS NOT LAYED YET ..IS THIS OK  I AM NEW TO LOOKING AFTER HENS AND ONLY HAVE 3 AS I LIVE IN LONDON  ..

[Vember]

Hi Garry

Welcome to the Hen House

It can depend on the breed of bird, also birds don't always lay in winter as there are less hours of daylight
You may get an odd one over winter but might have to wait till spring

One other thing if you could use lower case letters in your posts, we consider capital letters to be like shouting

Many thanks

Sarah

[GARRY]

thanks for your help the hen is a goldline.

[Vember]

Are your other girls the same age & breed Garry?

Does she seem ok in all other respects?


Sarah

[poultrygeist]

Hi Garry.

What are you feeding them and how much ?

And what part of London (just being nosey :oops: ) ?

Rob

[GARRY]

the other ones are a speckled and black rock  thay were laying ok now only the black rock is laying the speckled has not layed for 5 days now thay are one mounth older than the goldline..

[GARRY]

i am feeding them layers ..grit ..mixed corn befor bedtime... clean water each day. springs greens twice aweek home made bread once a  week as a treat..

[GARRY]

where the m1 starts  :

[poultrygeist]

Sounds like a textbook menu.

I've prob passed your house a time or two  

Rob

[GARRY]

i let them out at 7am and close the door at 5 pm.

[poultrygeist]

In the abscence of any symptoms, sounds like you just have a stubborn one.

We've been spoilt with ours. Laying from 24 weeks in Spring then one a day like clockwork until recently. Bonfire night seems to have been a factor in slowing them down.

If you want to post up any photos, you'll make yourself very popular.  

Rob

[GARRY]

[cant find how to do photos yet ..will work on it later..my speckled also stoped laying  on 5 november my be that had somethink  to do with it ..

[poultrygeist]

They don't seem to share the fascination for gunpowder and political assasination attempts.  :roll:

We got 4 from 6 today, which is up from the 3 we'd been getting since then.

But they owe us nothing.

Rob

[chickenlady]

I have 7 hens 5 of which are laying. the 2 that arent are a 26wk goldline and a babcock of the same age? my other 26 wk goldline has been laying for a month now! I cant work out why theyre not laying just assumed that im not gonna get any eggs till spring now??

[Vember]

Does sound like your doing everything right, I would imagine that it's just the dark nights that are slowing them down a bit :?

Have a look here it tells you how to pop pictures up

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/viewtopic.php?t=19476

Sarah