Do you spring/summer chicks lay in fall or wait?

[Areyoucluckingme]

I hatched two set of chicks - one in early May and one in early June - so the they are now 19 weeks and 14 weeks. We get very severe cold winters here (below zero). I am wondering if you think they will lay this year or just wait until spring? Breeds are Australorp, RIR and EE.

 

[Ridgerunner]

(below zero).

Fahrenheit or Celsius?

I've had pullets start to lay in the fall or winter where it rarely but occasionally got below 0 F. But that was only some of them. I had some wait until the warmer days of spring to start laying. The ones that did start continued to lay throughout the winter.

I don't know if any of them will lay before spring, but there is a possibility.

 

[Areyoucluckingme]

Fahrenheit or Celsius?

I've had pullets start to lay in the fall or winter where it rarely but occasionally got below 0 F. But that was only some of them. I had some wait until the warmer days of spring to start laying. The ones that did start continued to lay throughout the winter.

I don't know if any of them will lay before spring, but there is a possibility.

It is 0 F.

Right now it's only 40-ish at night and 60's in the day time but come November/December, it will get very cold. I live in the mountains at a high elevation.