Took me 8 months to figure out why my hens stopped laying in the coop

Back in March, three of my five hens suddenly stopped using the nesting boxes. They would lay eggs in the yard, under the porch, even in the compost pile. I checked for mites, adjusted the lighting, switched feed twice. Nothing worked. Finally last week I noticed the metal latch on the coop door was rattling in the wind. Turns out the noise scared them off the boxes every time it gusted. I wrapped a bit of duct tape around the latch to muffle it and within 3 days they were all back inside laying normally. Has anyone else had a weird noise or small change spook their girls out of the nesting boxes?

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