What Breeds have slowed for Winter egg laying for you ?

[DisabledMan]

This is my first winter raising chickens and have all different kind of breeds and none have slowed down at all. Mainly just curious what breeds have slowed down laying eggs for y'all in Winter???

 

[AinaWGSD]

First year pullets don't usually slow down much, if at all. Especially if they started laying in late summer/early fall. Right now my almost 2 year old cookies and cream hybrid and rhode island red haven't laid in weeks and one of my two nearly 1 year old easter eggers isn't laying (but the other one is one of my star layers!). I had one buckeye pullet that was laying late last fall/early winter then quit mid-December and started back up again 2nd week of January.

 

[sniper338]

I have red sexlinks, BCM, EE/Americana, brown leg horn, olive eggers... my young ones just hit point of lay but arent really laying quite yet. Everyone else is sporadic with this cold here lately. A few have stopped..

They lay more eggs on days I let them free range. The more the free range the more eggs they lay. Kinda like they hold me to it. Days they stay cooped up, just a few..

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have a mix of breeds and past the first year not a single breed has laid through winter for me, so I always stockpile eggs in late summer/fall in anticipation of that. Even my first year layers usually take a break in winter.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

My older three were hatched in Jan 2025, so a bit older than most folks’ first-years. Two (EE and Barred Rock) molted and stopped laying entirely. (I was surprised by both these things!) The third (Buff Orpington) didn’t molt, but definitely slowed down. All three had been laying since early summer, and my only guess is that with their early hatch date, they didn’t follow the usual pattern for first-years.

The two youngers (Speckled Sussex hatched in late May, and EE hatched in mid-June) didn’t lay at all until this early January and are now making up for lost time.

All five are now back in business, although the Barred Rock still has a pretty pale comb and has only laid 3-4 eggs since winter solstice.

Conclusions about breeds from all this? -none. I think that hatch dates and individual variations drive winter laying a lot more than breed.

 

[BoundlessLove]

The Cream Legbar have stopped laying.
BSL, Olive Eggers, SS are still laying well.
My two silkies have slowed down but not stopped.
No artificial light in my coop.