Several people told me that I should feed my chickens laying mash and they will lay more eggs. After checking and making sure that it won't hurt them, I bought a 50 pound bag of laying mash.
I started feeding them the mash last Monday, 4 days ago.
Before I fed them this product I had about 4 eggs a day.

This is my harvest so far:

Monday 4 eggs
Tuesday 3 eggs
Wednesday 3 eggs
Thursday 2 eggs. (one egg was damaged)

What's wrong with this picture??

i think the layingmash is more for health? i dont use it. i just make sure i feed mine a high quality food and they are good. is it getting cold where you are? my chickend would lay less when it cooled down and some not at all in the winter.

My 4 chickens get organic layer mash. It's almost a powder. They eat some but also get fruits, veggies, oatmeal, mealworms, seeds, and whatever bugs they find. They eat the feed as a last resort. Sometimes my mother doesn't get the organic feed in time, and we've gotten Southern States layer feed which is more like crumbles. The chickens don't really eat that.

I looked up laying mash and found some links of interest:

http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/poultry/pfs17.pdf
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/...ems/DI1192.html
http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/...ems/DI1191.html
http://www.phancypages.com/newsletter/ZNewsletter119.htm

Ah thank you so much, Robyn. I will check out the links right now. I looked it up too but couldn't really find much.
I mixed the layer mash in with their regular food (which is called "game bird feed"), the mash is powder and the other food looks like grains.

jessw, yes it is cooling down considerably. It's in the thirties at night and in the fifties in daytime, sometimes in the sixties, but summer is over for sure. Apparently the layer mash should help and they are supposed to keep producing eggs even through the winter.

I might have found a different reason for the lack of eggs. I think that my hens are "moulting" (at least one of them is). This morning when I opened the coop there were feathers all over the place. I wondered if they had gotten into a fight, it was a LOT of feathers. Now I left them outside in the pen all day and when I came back tonight to close the coop again there were a whole bunch of feathers outside in the pen. I looked things up on line and I guess when they moult they don't lay eggs. I read that moutling usually starts early fall, so this would be about the right time. It is early fall here, the leaves are starting to fall and the nights are getting pretty darn cold!

Yep, they won't usually lay eggs while molting. My chickens all molt at different times. My big rooster just finished but the others haven't molted lately. With a normal molt, the feathers fall out in groups but not all at once. My turkey hen molted late one fall and went completely naked. Then, it rained, and she just stood out in it. That was the end of her.

It's been a couple of weeks now and the laying mash seems to be working fine. I get about 6 eggs a day while I used to have 4 at the most. The same hen is still moulting, I feel bad for her. She looks quite ruffled and has a big bare spot on her chest. There are feathers all over the place.

My cat is still teasing the chickens and they are still terrified of her.
The other day they woke me up at 7 in the morning after only being in bed for 2 hours. And believe me it takes a LOT to wake me up. I ran outside in my jammies because I though some wild animal was getting to them. It was the cat teasing them again.