Chicken Laying at 11 weeks old?

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HomeByBonnie

HomeByBonnie

In the Brooder
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Jan 2, 2013
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Out to the nest boxes I did go when my hubby was asking if we had any eggs yet for breakfast. So far I have 4 girls who are laying 3 brown egg layers and a green.

The other chickens I have are 11 weeks old and 8 weeks old.

In the nest box today I found for the first time a white egg and it is as big as my usual layers.

Do I have an early bloomer? Or can a chicken have an off day and lay a white egg?

 
Its most likely from the green egglayer because the average chicken starts laying at 20 to 26 weeks
 
redstar14 said:
Its most likely from the green egglayer because the average chicken starts laying at 20 to 26 weeks
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I must have struck lucky with all my girls laying around by 18 weeks!

Any idea what would cause a chicken to lay a white egg?

Pat which I'm guessing is a brown leghorn has been sitting in the nest box for a week as well as letting me pet her and pick her up which has just been a recent happening.

Maybe I'll know better if this happens more often.

Cluck Norris my green egg layer. She has a nest box which she prefers and had an egg in it this morning. The white one was found in the other nest box which I find eggs in.
 
About the egg without a shell you need to put crushed oyster shells or eggshells in the pen

Ive never heard of a chicken laying different colored eggs might have a special chicken
 
Soft/shell less eggs happen with new layers. They're still getting their reproductive tracts in sync.

The white could be from any of them. It just didn't get a coat of paint. All shells are basically white with a coat of paint. Blue/green/olive/khaki have blue mixed with the shell so that chemical could have been absent during the hours it spent in the shell gland.
 

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