Top 10 best SINGLE-COMB winter layers

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

Which do you think are the best pure breeds with a single comb that lay in the winter?
Please, don't mention commercial hybrids.

 

[cavemanrich]

Best egg laying chicken WORLDWIDE is the White leghorn. I believe they outnumber humans in numbers.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

White leghorns do not always lay in the winter.

 

[cavemanrich]

Give them the correct feed and correct amount of light and they will. That is what so many egg factories use. Price does not go up on grocery store eggs during winter unless some kind of disease disaster strikes. The brown eggs are obviously sex link hybrids which you want to exclude.

 

[Pyxis]

White leghorns do not always lay in the winter.

No breed always lays in the winter. Egg laying is determined by hormones, which are triggered by light. During the winter, chickens just don't get enough light to trigger the hormones the lay. Some pullets will lay through their first winter without supplemental lighting, but after that, they're not going to lay through winter unless artificial light is added so that they are getting 12 to 14 hours of light a day.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

White leghorns are the best pure layer in the world by far. The ultimate queen of egg mass, of eggshell, of egg china white color.
The creator of many egg-laying hybrids and pure breeds.
The only egg-laying breed that managed to become the most popular egg-laying hen in the world without the participation and the helping hand of other breeds in her genes.

But, I believe that RIR are better winter layers.

Personally, I am against technical lighting. I want them to live physically.

 

[BantyChooks]

White leghorns. I had gotten an egg every day from my pullets until they got frostbite in the last week. They are quite hardy even in these temperatures that make all other birds quit. And yes, I live where there are real winters.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

Then, your lines are better than mine.

 

[BantyChooks]

Then, your lines are better than mine.

My birds are just regular old hatchery stock.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

My rir were better winter layers than my leghorns.
Not better layers in general, but better only in winter.