HenHouse Henry
Songster
My first winter with this flock. I have 2 blue copper Marans one stopped laying in October, she went through a molt, the other stopped during a rare cold period, it got down to 9 degrees and stayed in the teens for a couple of weeks. she layed a couple after New Years, but that about it. My California Gray just stopped laying. The Australorp and Buff Orpington are both still laying eggs pretty regularly. I do not add any extra lighting. They do not like snow, the pen has two rooms, they have to go through an unroofed area, there was a two foot patch of snow and they would not walk on it. I threw some shavings on it and they figured it out.