Any Experience With These White Egg Layers in the Steamy Southeast?

[3KillerBs]

Mods, please move this if I've posted in the wrong place, but I thought that climate adaptability was more of a management question than a breed question.

Being in the process of moving to new property in the country and getting chickens again, I thought I might like a few white eggs in the multi-color egg basket. Since I have a very strong preference for black, white, and black and white chickens I was thinking of the following breeds as possible options:

Ideal's Production Black
California Grey
Austra White

I live in central North Carolina, where heat and humidity rule and triple-digit summer highs are more common than single-digit winter lows. They will be housed on a well-drained slope with access to both sun and shade in coop and predator-hardened run and allowed out into a larger run enclosed in electric poultry netting. What can other southeasterners tell me about these breeds and this situation?

I'll definitely be having Delawares, Australorps, Light Brahmas, and Dark Brahmas with an option on Cuckoo Marans, Black Langshans, and Black or White Ameraucanas, intending to end up with a flock of about 20. (I loved my Delawares and my Dark Brahmas in my previous flock).

 

[zhutson789]

Mods, please move this if I've posted in the wrong place, but I thought that climate adaptability was more of a management question than a breed question.

Being in the process of moving to new property in the country and getting chickens again, I thought I might like a few white eggs in the multi-color egg basket. Since I have a very strong preference for black, white, and black and white chickens I was thinking of the following breeds as possible options:

Ideal's Production Black
California Grey
Austra White

I live in central North Carolina, where heat and humidity rule and triple-digit summer highs are more common than single-digit winter lows. They will be housed on a well-drained slope with access to both sun and shade in coop and predator-hardened run and allowed out into a larger run enclosed in electric poultry netting. What can other southeasterners tell me about these breeds and this situation?

I'll definitely be having Delawares, Australorps, Light Brahmas, and Dark Brahmas with an option on Cuckoo Marans, Black Langshans, and Black or White Ameraucanas, intending to end up with a flock of about 20. (I loved my Delawares and my Dark Brahmas in my previous flock).

Our Delaware’s, marans, brahmas, and ameraucanas have always done good.

 

[RiverOtter]

Your white egg layers are otherwise called "Mediterranian breeds" so it's a safe bet they'll do ok where it's hot

Your Dark Brahmas ( gorgeous as they are) and Australorps will be the ones to suffer in the heat.

 

[3KillerBs]

Thank you.

I had both Light and Dark Brahmas before and didn't find any issues with them. Two of them went broody during a particularly hot summer and one managed to hatch out a chick despite my attempts to remove eggs. Clever Noodle must have managed to keep one up under her wing when I was rummaging around underneath her (and dodging vicious nest-defensive bites (she was the tamest, but not when broody)).

I must say that the Delawares appeared to be the best at ignoring all forms of weather, hot or cold, wet or dry.

 

[aart]

Our Delaware’s, marans, brahmas, and ameraucanas have always done good.

But where do you live?
Climate, and time of year, is almost always a factor.
Please add your general geographical location to your profile.
It's easy to do, and then it's always there!

 

[HiEverybirdy]

That's good to know about Delawares being so hardy. I'm very tempted by those!

 

[zhutson789]

But where do you live?
Climate, and time of year, is almost always a factor.
Please add your general geographical location to your profile.
It's easy to do, and then it's always there!
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Ok I just changed it. I’m from SC so it get above 100 a lot. It will get down to the teens every once in a while on the winter at night. There’s water is frozen about 10 days a year.

 

[3KillerBs]

To pull the thread back on topic:

Does anyone in the steamy southeast have experience with these specific breeds to share?

Ideal's Production Black
California Grey
Austra White

 

[aart]

To pull the thread back on topic:

Does anyone in the steamy southeast have experience with these specific breeds to share?

Ideal's Production Black
California Grey
Austra White

You might try asking in your State Chat Thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/south-carolina.127943/page-2156

 

[3KillerBs]

You might try asking in your State Chat Thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/south-carolina.127943/page-2156

I didn't go to the state area because I figured that info on heat/humidity tolerance from anywhere in the entire southeast would be equally valid so I'd cast a wide net.