No eggs for 6 weeks

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Can I ask some advice please. ?
We have had our girls for 10 months. Arrived at POL . All went well from February until end of July . Averaged 4 eggs a day.

Since July we have had about 6 eggs in total. During that time one has had an extended broody period. We followed all the normal advice . Chucked her out of the coop, dummy eggs etc. She eventually came out of it last week. ( I think it was her that laid an egg this week)

They have a coop with a big run. Where they are overnight. They are out in the garden all day. When they were laying well they were little buggers for hiding their eggs. Piling them all up in the copse on the edge of the garden . We had literally to climb through the undergrowth to find them (one haul had 22 eggs !).

I am however 99% sure they aren't laying now though. They always do that sqawk when they lay an egg - and we haven't heard that for weeks. They also 'disappear' to the copse (to visit their egg stash ) when they are up to this egg hiding routine but at the moment all just ambling round the garden..

Any ideas ? They have mash/corn, and meal worm which they are mad for. All very healthy . No mites.

Do they just stop sometimes for no particular reason. ?

Could you try leaving them in for, say, 48 hours to see if they really aren’t laying? It does seem odd for them to all stop like that.

Do they look like they are still laying ie bright red combs, moist vents 😂. If so they are probably laying elsewhere. Egg laying is at its lowest right now but strange to have had so few since July. If they have a secure run I'd try shutting them jmin for a few days to be sure, if there's still none I'd try worming them and giving them some extra protein and calcium. Hope that helps