We have given up expecting them to lay any eggs

Good, give up. Then when they really turn on the eggs, it'll be a very good surprise!

 

Mine molted and pretty much stopped laying at the beginning of summer, and I didn't see many eggs until this past week. My three hens are older--they're almost two years old now, so I'd figured that they just weren't going to lay regularly anymore, and I'm okay with that (though I sorely miss the eggs!). Then my father set up a little wading pool for them to cool them off because it's been so unbearably hot and humid here, and the day after he gave them their pool, every hen laid! Go figure.

I hope yours surprise you soon!

 

A watched vent never poops an egg.

 

it's probably not making a difference, but have you put out some oyster shell since you saw the eggs? I hear heat can make them stop laying, so perhaps it's just too hot where you're at right now and they'll lay in the fall?

 

Try putting up this pic inside the coop:
"What happens to chickens that refuse to lay"

 

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omg, I want you to be my friend fattie...
That us my sense of humor for sure...........................
Can't quit laughing..........

 

FUNNY PEOPLE!

 

Yup, I had one that took a YEAR!!!!!!
Hang in there!