I have a CCL that hatched April 2022. She has not laid a single egg. in Oct 2022 she started checking out the nest boxes and sitting in them but never laid an egg. after about a month of this she stopped so I thought maybe the lack of daylight hours was the reason and thought nothing of it. Feb 2023 she started checking it out again. I checked each time after she came out of the box (I have a camera in there) and there was never an egg...... I gave her tums etc. at first thinking maybe egg bound then read they wouldn't live long if it was egg bound so figured it wasn't that. by the end of the laying season she was waddling a lot and had a bulge between her leg area (like the whole lower abdomen area and under her vent was swollen. But she was running around (well waddling) eating, and drinking, roosting at night etc. after doing some research that summer I figured she was internally laying, but from what I read that normally don't make it that long. The bulge went away a mo or two after she stopped going in the nest box (think she stopped around Oct or so???). She has started sitting again and once again no eggs. Has anyone had a hen that internally lays? how long do they normally live? I will cull if I think it is needed but as I said she eats, drinks and runs around with the rest so doesn't seem to bother her and she doesn't seem "sick" so don't see a reason to cull at this time.