Egg production is down

[Awestruck]

My girls are not putting out. Very low egg production.
What is your best advice for a
No Egg Winter.

I’ve had chickens since 2017. Every year, except the first year of their laying, they stop laying or the amount of eggs is greatly reduced. I only got 1 egg today (I have 11 hens). All of my Easter Eggers have stopped laying. If everything goes the way it normally does, they should be laying again in January, and it will probably pick up to getting 6-8 eggs a day, once again. I’ve been feeding them Feather Fixer, which seemed to help last year. I’ll see how well it does this year.
I forgot to mention that usually chickens molt during this time of year. Out of all mine that are not laying right now, only one actually looks like she is molting. I am assuming they all are though, because they are not laying like they normally do.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Molting is right! All my teenagers are in their 3-month molt but of course too young to lay. And my OG, 1 and 2 yo's, well the coop looks like there was a chicken explosion in there, lol. Feathers everywhere! But the only chicken that looks like she flew through a tornado is poor Winnie. One or two others are obviously molting but much more gracefully. I got 3 ggs today (15 layers), mostly I'm getting 1 or 2. They are on 20% protein. Whattaya gonna do?

 

[FrostRanger]

The only way to never have a no-egg winter is to replace the older hens with new pullets every year.

Even that's not guaranteed 'cause some pullets molt their first fall. 6 out of 7 of my current flock did. Adding pullets every year or 2 is still a good idea as you're more likely to at least get some eggs in the cold months

 

[BigBlueHen53]

My pullets all hatched July 1 of this year. They will be 6 months old on New Year's Day. If any of them are laying at that time, I will certainly post about it, either in this thread or one of my own. You'd better believe I will be crowing about it, lol!