I do let them out in the evenings some times but not daily. I have to be cautious because they dirt bath in my garden and tear up all my plants in the garden
I have 12 hens and all but 2 of them are apparently not laying. all of my girls are 1 year to 1.5 years old and were laying fine until I added 6 new hens. They have been non laying for 1.5 months now and unknown why. We were feeding 16% feed from local feed mill with no troubles...