I know they aren't vending machines. I know this was a terrible shock for them all but I thought since all of this happened in June they would be settled by now. I only brought the other two in because I thought it might make them feel better to be 6 again. I would never cause them stress knowingly.
I wasn't being nasty by saying that about vending machines. You'd be surprised at how many folks truly believe that hens must lay an egg every day or they should be culled. I heard that so many times here on BYC that it made me think of someone going to a vending machine every day for their egg. I even know of a man who killed hens who were molting and quit laying. He thought they were diseased.
Hens are affected by so many things in their environment and it sounds like a lot of changes for them, in addition to perhaps hot weather, which slows down my own here. The reality of it is that sometimes we just do not know why they do what they do. Plus, hens, especially hatchery stock, can be developing internal laying or have egg yolk peritonitis and look healthy and act normal at the beginning. The eggs just stop.