When do Easter Eggers start laying?

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Contemplating picking up 6 EE pullets so was looking on info regarding laying. We currently have 3 EEs.. background is sketchy on them. 1 doesn't even look like an EE...hatched out of a green egg...so at least an f2. She's a decent layer. Started around 26 or 27 weeks if I remember right. Her eggs are large and beige. Our EE out of a 'blue' egg lays tiny eggs and isn't as dependable as our other one but decent enough. Her eggs are also brown so I suspect she most likely was out of an f1 that just had a really blueish egg. Our 3rd one looks like an EE...love her but she's a royal pain in the fluffer. Didn't lay until she was 10 calendar months old. Laid beautiful green-blue eggs for a few months...went broody....stopped being broody ..but never laid again. Figured she'd start laying in May once her broodiness ended but nope. Nothing. Not a single egg all summer. Now she's old enough to start molting. .and it's winter so I doubt I'll get an egg out of her until it warms up. And then she'll go broody. And then? My husband keeps threatening the soup pot. Maybe I should show Miss Piper the pot to motivate her hahaha
 

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CONGRATS to the first eggers!

Im guessing because EEs are the mutts ( I love mutts and surprises) of the chicken world, how soon they lay is dependant on their genes, where they from.
Mine are from Cackle, they're 17 weeks. At least another month. Where did everyone else get their chicks?
Mine are also from Cackle Hatchery and I just got 2 eggs today from my 17 week old hens
 

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