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[wilkole]

Since putting bumper bits on our 6 girls 10 days ago we have had 8 eggs, 2 chooks are a bit too young to lay yet but prior to fitting the bumper bits we were getting 4 eggs a day.

 

No lice, no worms.

 

Eating and drinking as normal, if not a bit more due to the heat.

 

Any ideas please as going to have to start buying eggs again soon.

 

They are only 10 months so not too old to lay.

[Egluntyne]

Have they taken to laying their eggs under a shrub in the garden?

[wilkole]

No they only free range in the evenings when we supervise.

[purplefowler]

I had the same thing. Elvis turned into a right feather plucker so I put a beak bumper on her and she stopped laying, which meant I only had one layer (my other 2 were point of lay and weren't producung yet). It is gutting as you really get used to the eggs and the thought of buying them is horrible. I left the bumper on her for 3 weeks and she really calmed down and had dropped down in the pecking order so I took it off and after about 5 days she started popping eggs out again. All is now well, but it really did unsettle her. She also has stopped eating KO's feathers so it was a success, but no eggs was a killer