My ducks stopped laying on the shortest day and are still in moult. Bantams stopped about end of November but started again on 2nd Jan which suprised me, have had an egg a day or everyother day, then 2 per day and am now up to 3 per day, one of my chickens fell in the pond on Wed and drowned and I knew she was a layer but obviously the others are coming in now, judging by the amount of jumping on my cockerel(s) do they are certainly ready.
NB, If I dont sell a couple of trios within the next couple of weeks, there will be only one cockerel, just have to decide who will be the lucky boy!