Eggs in December???

[YARDBIRD]

For the first time ever, I am getting eggs in December.
I was feeding scratch mixed with pellets and letting the ladies out around noon each day.
I had to go out and get fresh straw. :D

[Neil E. Grassbaugh]

Greetings from Ohio, which is not the coldest place on earth, but considerabloy colder than North Carolina.

If our birds had NC weather in December here they would lay two eggs a day!

And I would probably incubate them. Maybe a good thing I only visit the lovely state of North Carolina.

[westlakej]

I have a BUCKEYE sitting on eggs now and its freezing at night.....

[Bob308]

I had a large Old English hen hatch out 12 chicks last month. Without lights my Large Old English are laying quite well right now and I am starting to set eggs. My Modern game bantam pullets are also laying some, not that I want them to. I won't start setting their eggs for a couple of months.

Bob

[flightoffancy]

I noticed that when the days got shorter the eggs stopped coming, then when i added in some heat lamps with regular bright white light they started laying again. I had eggs all year round. My friend down the street doesnt put in the lights in her coop and her egg production drops right off... Get some lights in there if you want to keep a higher rate of production in the winter months.

[lmd]

My ducks are in the same pen as usual for winter. For the first time in 20 years, they quit laying in late September. I miss those eggs, and so do the dogs. The ducks have light as usual all the time. Wish I knew why the change.

[Highland forge]

I had 4 POLISH start laying like crazy during the coldest weather in 20 years here I have talked to several people who have had strange sporatic laying this winter.

[harried hatcher]

It seems to me the chickens deserve a few weeks rest after working so hard the rest of the year.

[feathered lawn]

Mine just started laying again, but it's so dang cold here they freeze and crack by the time I get them.

[MKG]

For the first time ever, I am getting eggs in December.
:D

Sounds to me like you could use some Chanteclers. Cold weather does not faze them. I sometimes gather eggs that are frozen so hard they have expanded and broken the shells. Check out: http://chanteclerfanciersinternational.org .