confused why serama hens are not laying? are old enough!

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I have 3 serama hens, all 1 year old. Also I have a serama pullet of about 6 months. None are laying. I have had the pullet since she was about 2 months and the hens for about 2 months. They are all healthy except my serama rooster was sick a couple weeks ago but he's all recovered now and I dont think it has spread to other chickens. When I first got them I hd them in a large uhaul box(bad I know but it was about as big as those hutches people have them live in!) for the first couple weeks. Atleast 2, maybe all of the older hens were laying 2-3 eggs a week. When I moved them to their own Omlet brand Eglu, like 6 square feet run space, and 4 square feet coop space(just guessing, could be more or less). At that point not a single egg. My serama pullet I got before that but I just moved her to the serama coop today and they seem to be getting along, aside from some slight hostility in the beginning. But I am carefully watching them. Originally I had the hens on layer feed, but switched over to chick feed about 2 weeks after they stopped layer. I live in near Seattle so I dont think it could be too cold of weather, its in the 80's right now so I know it could be a little hot but my other 3 hens are still laying so I'm assuming its something "wrong" with the seramas. Anybody have ideas?
Thanks!
 
The move to the new coop and a new roommate are enough to stop them from laying. Why did you switch back to starter? They need the added calcium now that they are of laying age, even if they arent laying. When they are comfortable in their new surroundings, I'm sure that they will be back to laying for you just like before.
 
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but they been in their new coop for over a month and usually when I get new chickens they will start laying soon after. Maybe seramas are more fussy? haha. I'm probably just being impatient, but thanks for your input on this!
 

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