Help - reclusive, moulting chickens!

Hi chickenjennings. welcome 

I've had no experience of it myself, but it sounds like they're broody.

What have you got ?
ie. breed, number, age, etc

And presumablt they're otherwise in good health. Combs a good colour, crops not bloated, poo normal.

Rob

Well there are 3 of them - bantams. I have had them for about a year and they have been good layers - although very broody but I've just had to keep taking the eggs and shooing them out. They are sitting in their nest boxes and they do get cross when I go in there but they've always done that. They aren't the tamest of chickens - I just let them get on with it. I don't see any obvious problems - one of the browner ones seems to be going a lighter colour ?? They've stopped laying - won't come out, don't seem interested in food and they're going bald underneath. The breed - there's one lavender bantam and the other two are a beautiful brown flecked breed - don't remember the name. They're about a yr and a couple of months old.