I’m in Indiana so it’s in the 20-40 degree range. The older girls are 1-2 years and the new girls are 7-8 months.
Temperature has little to do with egg laying, it's the daylight hours that they need, they'll probably start laying as the days get longer.
x's2Temperature has little to do with egg laying, it's the daylight hours that they need, they'll probably start laying as the days get longer.
Some chickens take awhile to start laying.
At what age have you had them laying?
I have a Wyandotte born first day of April last year and she laid her first egg the week before Christmas. My Marans just started laying about two weeks ago and they were born July 2. It has gotten lighter and lighter at night too. Sunset went from 4:30 to 5:30 in the past 3 weeks. You should get eggs soonish!
We have a batch of chickens of similar breeds. We have 11 hens in that group and we are getting between 8-12 eggs/day. But we are in Northern California in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It drops into the high 30’s 40’s at some night. But is high 50’s to low 70’s during the day. Your girls need 8-12 hours of daylight. So if it’s overcast with you that will also affect their laying. We have lights in their run and coops. We have two large coops with heating panels. We have 25 birds total. Twenty chickens, 4 ducks and one large Embden goose named Tony. Our coops are also fully insulated, and have insulated vinyl windows. When I built them I wanted to be able to walk in them without being hunched over. Everything else followed from there.
At 40 weeks and I had only 1 Wyandotte. She passed away from neighbor's dog killing her.
