Spring chickens - do they normally lay through the first winter with no extra light?

[Pump Hill Peeps]

My daughter would say, "Inside voices, people, inside voices", whenever her brothers were too loud or shouting.

SORRY, FRED. I'M NOT YELLING. JUST NOT INTO THE POLITICALLY CORRECT TYPING THING. I'M MORE INTO THE GREAT INFO.

 

[devora]

It's not PC typing, sheeesh. It's a useful convention. When you type in all-caps it indicates yelling. Period.

My girls are layin' fools, but I do agree the generalizations get us into trouble!

 

[runsw/scissors]

I've got the same thing here! I am South and East of you. I chalked it up to the cloudy cruddy weather we've been having.

I don't know if it was the cayenne or the light (it just got up to 12 hours total between light and daylight two days ago) but I got NEW egg today! This one is either light brown or maybe tinted. I'm thinking one of my LavOrps, or maybe the Partridge Brahma, since I caught my d'Uccle roo on her back the other day - so hilarious - a tiny rooster and a big hen. She even raised her tail for him but when he couldn't get it done, she put it down and refused.

Several of my girls who haven't layed yet are starting to sing the egg song, and I found Camper (my Campine) checking out the nest box, so maybe she'll start again soon. She may have already as one of the white eggs I got the other day was a bit whiter and smoother than the others. Based on the song and combs, hopefully my wellie, two polish, andalusian and a few others.

Yea!

 

[hispoptart]

Mine were laying well even without added light, then as our days have been getting longer.....They went into molt and have given no eggs for about a month

till just the other day when one of them has been giving up an egg a day.