Problems after 1 full year

Hello there and welcome to BYC! :frow

Molting birds generally don't lay. Especially Australorps. (Aussies only come in black) My Orps are notorious for taking months to get back to laying, additional light or not. Austalorps have more feathers than any other breed and its taxing on their bodies to come up with enough protein for both feathers and laying.

Your other birds may not be fully mature enough to lay also health issues can stave off laying, cold, bullying, not enough sustenance. Many reasons why birds don't lay. Egg eating is always a possibility. I personally don't like to add additional lighting as I like to give my birds a break from laying. Less laying means longer living birds that lay longer into older age.

All this being said, additional lighting needs to be 12-14 hours with at least 8 hours of solid darkness.

So glad you could join our community and Happy Holidays! :)

Nope, wrong! Australorps don't come only in Black. I have them in Black, Blue, and Splash. They also come in white as I have heard, but I don't have the plain white ones. The hatcheries also have what they are calling an Austra-White (AW) which is a cross between a White Leghorn and a Black Australorp.
 
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