Our hens are about a year old, have come to us from our neighbour, have settled into their house/run well enough to keep laying, and are being given the same feed as their previous keepers, but for some reason they are ignoring food in the bowl and will only eat if we feed them directly from our hands, or from the bowl when we are holding it for them. The main problem with that, apart from not having the time to do this all the time, is that one of the hens is much more cautious than the other two and she won't approach us to eat.
In order to get them to eat at all we have resorted to all sorts of new foods which they apparently love, but again, will only eat much of it from our hands. Porridge, fruit, fresh sweetcorn, even layers at a push. Anything as long as it's from our hands.
For the first couple of days they were laying at much the same time as each other but now we are down to 2 eggs a day and laid hours apart.
Any suggestions?