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

[Dixiedoodle]

I have 3 Barred Rock, 2 Buff Orpington and 2 RIR (10months old) and they lay 5-6 eggs almost every day. My EE hen JUST started to lay last week when our pm temps were 12* and am temps were in the low 20*... I have only had one day where I got ONE egg and the next day they were back to normal.. We have had 21days with below freezing temps, w/ very low wind chill temps..

 

[larryj57]

I have 3 RIR, 1 EE, and ! dominecker hen and I have been getting 4 or 5 eggs everyday , the EE takes a break sometimes, it has been in the teens here for the past few weeks.

 

[Bantymama]

I have 3 BCM and only 2 will lay if it's 15 or above one has not laid in months. 4 SLW and the same they only lay when it is 15 or above (they seem to lay more then the BCM). My 2 little bantams have not laid an egg since my roo died last september and one little bantam is only 6 months old so i don't think i will get any thing from her till spring.

 

[riftnreef]

I have four young golden comet hens that just started laying this past Friday...they have given me 10 eggs in four days! The temps here have been brutal (daytime highs near single digits) for the past week or so and they don't seem to mind a bit for laying...then again, that's what they were breed for.

 

[Bandit]

I have one SL Wyandotte that has been laying almost every day since November come rain, snow, or shine. Then one of my BOs just started laying for the first time about 2 weeks ago. My older GL Wyandotte lays an occasional egg, and my other BO laid almost every day till about 2 weeks ago. The weather doesn't seem to affect the egg laying, and I don't have artificial lights for them, just a heat lamp that comes on for 15 minutes every 4 hours to take off the chill! It's been really cold here, down in the single digits at night.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

My BO and EE hens have been on a molt for what seems like 3 months now, but two of my cuckoo maran pullets, I only have 3 and they've been laying for a little over a month, have been giving me eggs daily, and one of my ee/cochin mix pullets has been giving me one at least every other day.

ETA: Yay! Went home for lunch today to find that my two EE girls have come out of their molt and each laid me an egg, and one of my buff orpingtons decided to produce one herself. I'm up to 4 eggs today and still expect at least two more from my maran pullets and cochin/ee mix pullet.

 

[Elite Silkies]

4 out of 8 Australorps are laying and the low was 17 I think. My Silkies went on strike............

 

[QuailHollow]

Almost all of my EE's are laying
A couple of Cochins
1 or 2 Buff Orpington
and 1 Barred Rock

 

[fordmommy]

All my girls are still laying but one. (except the 3 pullet BR and pullet guinea) The one not laying is a whitelace red wyndotte I was told. I got her this fall going through a moult, so she has never layed for me. I'm not sure if she ever will. Seems kinda old.

Girls that are laying.....

BA
EE
polish/leghorn mix
buttercup mix
red sexlink
JG
Barred Rock
silverlace red wyndotte
blue speckled orpington
some kinda rock

and 3 mixed red sex links

 

[LynneP]

golden comets (sexlinks)

Getting 7-12 eggs daily from 12 hens.