Where are the eggs???

[TomZilla43]

So, the days are getting longer and the weather has warmed up here in the south(at least for the moment). And oddly enough my five hens have all but stopped laying. They all seem to be doing really well physically nothing out of the ordinary that I can see wrong. The only major change is that I did move them from the tractor coop that I built last yr into a larger stationary coop that I had been working on. Now over the winter I went from averaging around 4 eggs a day to more like 2, but over the last wk or 2 they're MAYBE averaging 1 a day. No change in diet, they seem to be happy and energetic....eating well and always access to fresh water. Any one else experiencing this right now? Also any ideas what might be going on?

 

[sourland]

New coop, less than optimum day length, and perhaps age are all factors. As day length approaches 12 to 14 hours, egg laying will increase.

 

[TomZilla43]

Thanks for the reply, my girls are pretty young(all less than a yr). But considering the time of yr I kind of thought that perhaps this wasn't so abnormal, just seemed a little strange because they had laid so well over the worst of the winter mths.

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

If you just moved them, that may be a factor.