"wafflycat" wrote in message
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It's not a massive problem if she doesn't lay, I think she will just
become
a pet, for as long as she lasts. But it would be better if she was
productive, obv.

Before she had her broken egg problem she was laying bigger and bigger
eggs
each day, and they were getting quite scary. She's not a small chicken,
but
she didn't look like she should have been producing what she was!


As she's not old, she may well just be havign a short break form laying -
they can do that sometimes. Contrary birds ;-)

That has never been my experience in 30 years of keeping chickens. If a
previously reliable hen stops laying suddenly, something is wrong. Unless
they decide to go broody, of course.
Hens in full lay do not stop laying "for a short break" unless there is a
problem of some kind.
Tina