Kalmbach food leading to poor laying?

CedarRanch

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I have 19 mature laying hens ranging from 6ish months old to just over 2 years old. I am only getting 1-3 eggs a day. I was talking to a friend who has 30 hens and is still getting 2 dozen eggs a day. It is not super cold, multiple hens did go through a tough molt. However, I have consistently gotten fewer eggs from others near by, no matter what weather and consistently they are feeding a cheaper feed. I'm currently feeding Kalmbach nonGMO laying feed. I have a mix of breeds including rhode island reds, wyandottes, easter eggers, ameruacanas, marans, orpingtons, olive eggers. In the summer the most eggs we got was around 12. They are fully free range, they are not laying anywhere else. I just have a very very poor laying rate. Any ideas?
 
We have 15 hens and 8 laying pullets with numerous birds molting. We get between 6 to 10 eggs every day. Oldest birds are 2.5 + years old (11) birds, other hens (4) are 1 to 1.5 years old. We feed Kalmbach flock maker with oyster shell on the side. Basically, most of our hens are molting so the pullets are doing most if not all of the laying. I`m pretty happy with egg output all things considered. I have noticed a big improvement in their appearance since switching to Kalmbach about 6 months ago. I doubt its the feed but if it was me I would switch to a flock maker feed with oyster shell free choice available at all times as non laying birds should not have as much calcium. Just my 2 cents worth. 🙂
 
We have five pullets, three laying. We averaged 18 a week through the summer into the fall. It has dropped to 12-15 with the lessened light.

Easter Egger: daily layer, 7 a week, now 6
Buff Orpington: 6 a week, now 5
Barred Rock: 5 a week, now 4-5

We got three today.

They've been on Kalmbach since I got them at ~7 weeks old.
 

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