Chickens lay more or fewer eggs based on time of year and chicken's age.
Our three year old flock was approaching 0 eggs/day recently.
...so @LibertyFarmNH grabbed the chickens one by one, and I swung the hatchet, one by one.
Grabbed a cardboard box and piled the carcasses in.
yep, could do ...but there's a lot of other stuff that needs doing a few hours of labor and heating up the plucking bath and firing up the plucking machine in cold weather ... nah