eggs

[z006]

What is the solution for the hen if she stop laying eggs?

[Wiley]

keep her racing,under lay eggs,a widowhood hen or if shes stock unfortunatly let her go.

[z006]

thanks

[ACE LOFTS]

had the same problem mate tryed absolutly every thing u can imagin.

 

ones they have finished they have finished.

[rosebowl]

try giving her some iodean i tryed it a hen i had kept laying 1 egg but was unfertile

the next tine she laid 2 eggs both were fertile

[pj1001]

I assume you mean iodine Red. How much did you give here and for how long?

 

A friend of mine has a very good hen which hasn't laid since she was a 3 year old, up until then she laid no problem. She is coming 7 year old now and is the dam of several good pigeons including a young hen that won the open here out of approx 25,000 young birds. He is thinking about killing her but if iodine might trigger her to lay again it would be worth a last try.

 

PJ

[Guest speckled]

:-/ well some say wheat germ oil, is a good thing to give the hens 2 weeks before breeding its a sort of  stimulant thats gets the hormones working, must admitte ive tryed it & yet my 12yr old hens still laying, its best put on the corn twice a week, dont no if any one else has tryed it but failing that "Viagra" lol Speck owch ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Guest]

While the original post doesn't give age of the hen in question, I think it might be more a question of physical health than age..

 

First hen I purchased from a well known stud was a yearling. Still waiting to see her lay an egg. I suppose I tried Speck's equivalent     of 'viagra'   a product from B&R [called fertioil I think] and also tried floating eggs under her and let her raise a round to try and kick-start her cycle ... no joy with anything I tried.

 

There was definitely 'something' going on inside as her vents would open and close and she would cover the nest bowl near her time - but nothing ever appeared. Couple of years later I had to put her down as 'something else' was going on inside her. She was getting bigger and bigger [fluid?] and eventually had difficulty breathing.

 

Reckon her problem was something called 'egg drop syndrome' where the egg from the ovary doesn't cross the gap between ovary and oviduct and falls into the body cavity instead. If this happens every month, it could eventually cause inflamation / disease / peritonitis in the body cavity ... reckon this was the case with mine.

 

Only other problem I had was with a yearling hen who had been fine until hit by a hawk on her first training flight and was out for three days, came back with primaries and secondaries missing in one wing. Reckon she must have taken a bad knock going down, because her first egg got stuck 'in the works' and was unstuck by the second one bashing into it, the first had no shell covering over 'a twenty pence size' area, where the second had been lying against it in the canal. She seemed OK until her next cycle when clear fluid started running like a tap out of her egg canal. Again, another bird that needed to be put down for health reasons.

 

When things go wrong hens and eggs are far from simple.  ;D

[westy]

i say cut the grub down