What breed do you have that is still laying in this cold weather?

I'm in AZ, so it's not too cold here, but we still have the daylight issue. The temps are currently in the 40s (30s a month ago) and my chickens are in an open 3-sided coop. My laying flock has 3 different ages of pullets/hens, so they are not all molting at the same time. I'm not giving my chickens any extra light or heat and....

I am getting 5 eggs per day from my;
3 easter eggers
1 production red/rir
1 australorp
2 barred rocks

the other pullets/hens;
1 barred rock
2 barnevelders
1 easter egger
1 black star
are molting and have stopped laying for the time being
 
All of our girls ( see my sig.) are back to full production after a very dry spell due to molting. Even the OEG bantams are popping out an egg every other day! The cold has not phased them at all.
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Were getting seven eggs a day from our 10 hens...one of them being a welly who is old and not laying anymore
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And it's been in the single digits here and highs in the teens every day for months now. They do have one heat lamp on in their coop 24/7 (8X8)
I have
red sex link
Salmon Fav
Barred rock
2 australorp
buff brahma
wellsummer
2 EE's
SLW
 
My buff and black Orpingtons, and my speckled Sussex are still laying but the most amazing is my Silkie, Sara - she gives me an egg a day with the temps in the low teens at night and 20's during the day.
 
Here on the East Coast it has been the coldest Winter in a long time. It is 24 degrees right now and my 6 Golden Comets have been laying 6 eggs per day since Sept. I do have artifical light that comes on a 4 AM.

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I have 4 Australorps, 3 Buff Orp, 1 Dom and 1 EE...I get about 5-7 eggs a day..our temps have been ridiculously low the past few weeks..10 degrees right now : (
 

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