My hens just started laying, why are they laying fewer eggs?

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Hello, my laying hens just dropped laying barely a month after they started laying. They are 120 and now am only getting 30 eggs. Tried giving stress pack for a week and no change. What should I do

Miranda Sadar, DVM, DACZM · Accepted Answer

Thanks for your question, and it sounds like you have quite the situation going on. With that severe of a drop in egg production, I would be concerned about severe stress, nutritional deficiency, or some kind of an environmental issue. I would recommend evaluating the husbandry to see if everything is ideal. If you have had any changes in diet, with a focus on a lack of calcium, that can cause a drop in egg production for many birds. Also, if you have had any stressful events, that also can cause a short term drop in egg production. From what I can find, the stress pack should not be harmful to your chickens, but ensure that adding it to their routine doesn't cause them to not want to ingest the food/water that it is added to. I hope that gives you a place to start, and that the egg production starts to turn around very soon.

My hens just started laying, why are they laying fewer eggs?

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