Finally more eggs - in the snow!

[CityChook]

Well, after a 3 month (!!!) break for molt, I got my first egg this morning. We got 7 inches of snow overnight and the wind is whipping it all over the place outside, it won't even get to 10 degrees for a high today (and they're predicting a wind chill of -30F tonight) but the girls are safe and snug inside the coop and thanked me for their heat by laying me an egg. Finally! Talk about spoiled chickens....

 

[GardeNerd]

Yeah! That is so cool.

Opps. No pun intended. The poor girls molting in the cold weather, it must have been awful.

 

[chookchick]

Woo hoo! Eggss!!

So is that a signal that my lazy hens will be starting up soon?!

 

[chicachic]

hi everyone.. in regards to getting eggs now in the cold weather... I was led to believe that chickens needed a "rest" period of no laying, and that winter was for that purpose. My coops are not heated so I don't usually get eggs after december. I also forgot about the "molt" season. Isn't that in the summer? I have had chickens in the past. I am now starting up again with 2 small coops and 2 chicken families....2 roosters 5 hens divided. Anyway, eggs in the winter? It would be nice

 

[mstricer]

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I have orps and was under the impression that they lay during the winter but mine slowed down too, Way down.

 

[bufforp89]

I have 8 orp girls too and they give me 3-5 eggs a day so yea they do fine in the winter, at least mine do.

 

[Cetawin]

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They molt when they want to molt. That molting period is their break...depending on the temps and lighting, they will lay through winter.

 

[chicachic]

to chillinwith my peeps...do you have heat and light allwinter so your chickens lay all winter? I still get one egg from each of 2 chckens right now, but was gettng 3 or 4 eggs ur to about 2 weeks ago. I have only the sunlight and no heat.