Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[Calum]

Hi a few days ago charity started laying her eggs in a plat pot . This was just after we got two new chickens. Has anyone got any ideas to what caused this abnrmal behaviour.

[Egluntyne]

Maybe she is feeling a bit stressed with the other hens having arrived.

 

Are they hogging the nest box?

[Calum]

No but they stay in the house more than her

[Ali B]

My original 4 goldlines started to "lay away" when I introduced two new girls, a bit of a problem as we have an acre of garden! Luckily I found their communal nesting site, and collected the eggs from there. After about 3 weeks, when everything had settled down again, they returned to the nest box, and this morning, for the first time, I have had 6 eggs in the cube.

 

Betty, Olive, Jane and Elizabeth

Lily and Louella

[Calum]

Thanks so just let them lay in the plant pot then for while