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Thank you for the sticky post and the links. Our flock was being aggressively hunted by the neighborhood bobcat, so we spent over a month confining the layers, the ducks, and the toy box bantams while we baited for the bobcat. When we never caught anything, and news of another neighbor catching a very clever and obviously well fed bobcat, we quit the confinement operation. It has been three weeks since, and we have not seen a single egg from the layers. They are ~20 cinnamon queens in their second laying season and 3 Easter Eggers in their 4th laying season. We haven't changed the feed or the manner of feeding, we have plenty of water and plenty of nest boxes . We feel like we broke the hens trying to keep them safe from the daylight raids!