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I have no first-hand experience with goannas because we don't have them here either, but they do eat wild birds and eggs, so chickens and chicken eggs are probably not outside the realm of possibilities.

My Australorp was around 23, 24 weeks before she started laying. Give her time, 16 weeks is young for most breeds!

What breed is she? She looks too young to be close to lay yet, but do take that with a grain or three of salt; I'm only in my first year of chicken-keeping and basing it off my own birds. None of mine were laying while their combs and wattles were small and pink like that. About a week after...

Don't be surprised if you start hearing a different "song" from each bird, too. I can usually tell which one is laying an egg right that minute by the sounds from the coop. They all make a different noise. Sometimes they make noises at each other too. Two of mine lay back to back, one right...

I do this with mine:

Only one of my chickens has an egg song that I've heard. I've been out there when three of them are in the middle of laying an egg, and didn't notice any unusually loud noises. That said, my Easter Egger Sophie IS very loud when she lays an egg. I can hear her buh-GAWWWWWWWWWWWWKing all the...

Sophie started laying while I was away this week, and I’m really happy that her eggs are blue! I’ll try to get a good picture tomorrow; she’s only laid two and apparently my chickens have decided that one bird at a time gets to lay an egg - since Sophie started, Bianca’s stopped. There were no...

Chickens can be so weird. I went out this afternoon to give them their greens and check for eggs, and I was apparently right on time. I saw Bianca sitting in the corner of the coop where she likes to lay her eggs (still NEXT to the nest box, rather than IN it), and all three of the others...

Look what I found in my coop today! This one’s from my Leghorn, Bianca. I know, because she’s the only breed I have that lays white eggs. She’s 20 weeks old today! She didn’t lay it in the box - it was right next to it. It’s a good size for a first egg, and pretty heavy for its size. Here...

I'm still waiting. My girls are 19 and 20 weeks old, and no eggs yet. A friend and an aunt went in on a chick order from the same hatchery with me, and both have eggs from their flocks; mine are late to start, it seems. My 19-weekers are a Rhode Island Red, a white Leghorn, and an Easter Egger...