Thanks everyone for the great input.
So my birds have a little over 10,000 sq ft of free range area that is 1/2 heavily wooded and the other 1/2 lightly wooded with lots of grass to eat. I have 6ft fencing on 3 sides and 8ft fencing on the 4th side. Also have tension wire along the bottom of all fences except the one bordering my neighbors chickens. My neighbors have 20 hens and an enormous Australorp Roo. My birds and their birds can see each other and interact all day. Their birds are laying machines. I have 1 EE that flies wherever she wants, over the fence and back, but she's the only one that gets out of the enclosure.
At 5mos I switched them to Layer Feed and I also offer Oyster Shell and Crushed Granite in Rabbit Feeders. I have 3, 3.5 gallon waterers throughout the property, all in the shade and 1 inside the coop. They get a few handfuls of scratch a day just thrown about to encourage digging and pecking in certain areas where the grass is getting high. I also give them lots of fruit and veggie kitchen scraps, mostly grapes, watermelon, leafy greens and squash. Plus all the bugs and worms they can find.
Every other day I put on my jeans and boots in the 100 degree heat and canvas the property for eggs. The wooded area is extremely hard to get through with lots of thorny vines but I've been doing it to make sure there are no eggs anywhere. I have not found an egg yet except the one inside the coop, on the coop floor under the roosting bars in the pine shavings. I have 4" of pine shavings on the floor so she may have laid it while on the roost bar but there is so much padding on the floor it didn't break.
Ive got nesting pads with pine shavings on top in the nesting boxes. I sprinkle fresh mint, basil and rosemary in their nesting boxes once a week just to make it smell nice. I also have 4 light brown wood eggs that I keep in the nesting boxes.
All my neighbors, who all raise chickens, make fun of me for all the work and time I spend "pampering" these birds and the amount of space I fenced off for them in my yard. But I wanted them to have a nice life in exchange for all the eggs.
There is one thing that I did not really think about but I just moved all my chickens into a brand new coop (see pics on profile). The one they were in before was way too small and there was no room for nesting boxes. So about 2 1/2 weeks ago I moved them over to the new coop, complete with roll out nesting boxes and automatic chicken door. Its on a timer and opens every morning at 7am and closes every night at 9pm. It only took 2 nights of carrying each one from the old coop to the new coop and they started to go into the new coop on their own. I got that egg 5 days after they moved to the new coop, I was so excited. But nothing since.
So maybe they were about to start laying and then I stressed them out by moving them to the new coop? Or maybe its possible that the breeders gave me the wrong hatch date? But my neighbor went with me and picked up two EE's for himself and his are laying so I think the hatch date is correct. None of them have any noticeable signs of sickness, I pick my favorites up most days and look them over. The others I can only catch at night and I can't see much at that point.
Any ideas? I'm hoping I just totally stressed them out by moving them into a new home and reset their egg laying clock.
