Weak Shells and Decreased Production

OK so everyone is in different parts of the country and having this problem. A spring thing??
I'm in Arizona where our summer actually begins next month so it's end of spring here with 80+ degrees during the day.

I only have 2 hens: an Ameracauna & a California White and both are about 1 1/2 y.o. My Ameracauna went through a typical molt this winter where she lost tons of feathers and stopped laying for about 2 months. She is gorgeous now and is laying perfect eggs almost every day.

The Cali White never molted and has been laying almost everyday since she began laying over a year ago. Now she is looking kind of scrawny (I would too after all that production without rest) and her egg shells are very thin compared to the other hen. In fact for 4 days in a row now I've found her eggs broken and perhaps eaten by one or both hens. Several weeks back I discovered an eaten egg so I put a plastic eggs in the nest box and that cured that.... till now ? Both hens get organic layer mash so I would think the feed isn't the problem. Do they molt any time or at certain seasonal times? And I wouldn't think that affects the shell thickness does it?

I'm clueless......
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So glad to know this is going around, I was starting to think my spoiled girls where holding out on me. Out of 38 hens egg numbers have been as low as 16 eggs a day. My feed store chicken eggspert suggested I put them back on chick feed just to up their protein in case of molt and also suggested they may have slowed down because of spring, examples; change in free range diet, more exercise and perhaps even mother nature telling them to slow down a little before going broody. Our temps. here in NorAz have finally gotten into the 60's so they are all acting a little strange anyway, I went out earlier and close to 30 of them where sunning on the trampoline like a bunch of teenage girl laying out. I almost asked if they wanted the music on and a diet coke.
 
Hi Mommyof5! I'm from Flagstaff, where are you?! My girls are loving the great weather too and I only got 2 out of 6 today-althought the rest of the week was OK. Wondering if they are protesting all of the chicks I have in the garage right now!
 
I went out earlier and close to 30 of them where sunning on the trampoline like a bunch of teenage girl laying out. I almost asked if they wanted the music on and a diet coke.


LOL!
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Well, I'm so glad to hear it's not just me!!! I actually did switch mine to chick feed, just in case the extra protein would help. I got 4 eggs today instead of two (from 6 hens). Not sure how the shells are. The two that stopped laying completely are still on strike...
 
Well I messed my girls up. I split the flock and their giving me what for...
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Hopefully things will get back to normal. Yesterday I got 1 out of 5... today 3 out of 5. They better get their act together 'cause I've got 19 chicks waiting in the wings... and that freezer is getting empty.
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No I'm just kidding
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Their my babies
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I have a hen who hasn't laid an egg since February! Last summer she matched pace with my Leghorns - about 6 eggs a week. Now for some reason she's on strike. Still acting good, not sickly or eggbound. Her belly feels similar to my other sexlinks, and they ARE laying so I'm not suspecting any issues.

Now my 3-eggs-a-day Leghorns (3 hens,lol) are starting to miss days more often than ever before. I know they can't lay an egg every day forever, but I didn't expect them to slow down THIS soon!!!

All of those hens are 1 year old this month. Maybe age is catching up with them faster than I want to admit
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Homeschoolmama we are out on highway 64 up towards the canyon. Good news with a change of feed[off purina and back to az. mills) and a little accident with the dog/cat food I have had 28 and 32 eggs the last two days. the girls are back up and running. So I guess the coke is all mine!!!
 

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