Solving Omlet Smart Auto Door Timing Issues with Alexa Routines

[adda]

Can anybody suggest any Breeds or crosses as the ones we have at the moment are Japanese bantams which only lay very small eggs and silkies which stop laying in the summer?

[Cinnamon]

Most bantams are pure breeds,so they will stop for several months in the winter.

You can get some bantam crosses which will lay more consistently & I am sure there are a few people on the forum who have them.

I have just pure breeds & my Poland hen is a good layer of nice sized eggs

[Janty]

I can't comment, I'm afraid as although I have bantams, they have never laid.

They are still young and should lay in the Spring so I'm told. I have three pekins, one brahma miniature and one Orpington miniature.

[Milly]

I haven't got any experience of bantams, but my Frisian is small and dainty and very pretty. Her eggs are about 42-46g. She took a long time to start, but has laid at least 3 or 4 a week since she did, even though it's winter.

 

Milly

[Eyren]

I have two hybrid bantams (random crosses rather than commercial hybrids) and one pure breed. They are all laying at the moment, but as I only got the two hybrids a few weeks ago, I don't know how consistently they will lay. The pure-bred Wyandotte lays all year round, but only every other day at best and she is also inclined to go broody in the summer.

 

Dilly mentioned in another thread that her pekins lay well in the warmer weather but stop when the days become short. Maybe she can elaborate...