When will they start laying regularly again?

[Mhcanupp]

My 6 hens are 2 years old. They used to lay every day, without fail. This past fall was the first year they basically stopped. I'm in North Carolina, and it's April, so it's warm and obviously we've had more daylight hours for quite sometime now. But they are still barely laying. My 2 EEs lay almost daily. I also have 2 RIRs who I never see laying anymore, and 2 BOs that lay roughly every other day.
What the heck could be going on? Or should I just be more patient?
Also, these ladies have been together since they hatched, so they've grown up together.

 

[nuthatched]

The days are just now getting long enough, hens go through molt and laycation their second winter.
What's their diet?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Some hens finish the molt and return to laying faster than others. So it could be you need patience. They may be hiding a nest on you. That does not call for patience.

My suggestion is to try the vent check. A hen that is laying or real close to laying will have a large moist pink vent. If she is not laying, her vent will be small and tight. You might look at one of the laying hen's vent so you know what a soft moist vent looks like, then check your RIR's. I'd take them off of the roost at night so they are easier to catch.

 

[Mhcanupp]

The days are just now getting long enough, hens go through molt and laycation their second winter.
What's their diet?

Layer feed, scratch grains, black soldier fly larva and kitchen scraps

 

[Quail_]

My 6 hens are 2 years old. They used to lay every day, without fail. This past fall was the first year they basically stopped. I'm in North Carolina, and it's April, so it's warm and obviously we've had more daylight hours for quite sometime now. But they are still barely laying. My 2 EEs lay almost daily. I also have 2 RIRs who I never see laying anymore, and 2 BOs that lay roughly every other day.
What the heck could be going on? Or should I just be more patient?
Also, these ladies have been together since they hatched, so they've grown up together.

Could be a few different things. Have they molted? Sometimes they could just be on break. A way i tell they are on break, or just freeloading is their comb. Bright red they are laying, pale comb means shes being a freeloader for now.

 

[sondownchick]

It is mid-summer here and our 2 yr old hens are no longer laying!!! So.....that means we are not getting ANY eggs from our 5 chickens!!!! What could be the problem? the other 3 are 5-7 years old!