Winter Layers

[AccentOnHakes]

Are any of these winter layers?

Leghorn
Brahma
EE
Cochin
Silkie
d'Uccle
Sebright

I know that some of them will just be pets and lay horrible.

ETA: These are all bantams.

 

[jelmer]

I have heard that leghorns are.

 

[gritsar]

My LF brahmas are excellent winter layers

 

[AccentOnHakes]

What about bantams? These are are bantams, I'll edit that in to the OP.

 

[enola]

My Leghorns have laid all winter, but here in SC it is not considered to be cold.

My Barred Rocks, Cuckoo Marans and Production Reds have also laid all winter.

I do supply light for a 14 hour day though, that makes a difference.

 

[AccentOnHakes]

Well, Bay Area CA, so...

ETA: Will probably not supply light.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

It's not so much the cold, as it is the lighting. Mine are getting 24 hours right now (well, some of them). My sex-links are still spitting out eggs, and my d'uccles just started up. They're the only ones on lights though, so no one else is laying.

 

[AccentOnHakes]

What breeds do you have with no light?

 

[gritsar]

Have you checked Henderson's Chicken Chart?:

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

You'll see a snowflake for each breed that are good winter layers.

 

[AccentOnHakes]

Ahhh...I had forgotten about that. But charts aren't always accurate, so yeah
Having reread the chart, here is my new list

Silkie
Brahma
d'Uccle
Wyandotte*
BR*
EE
Cochin

*Kicked out Sebright and Leghorn for those two that, according to the chart, are winter layers. Still going with the same colors...ish.