At what age do silkies start to lay????

[Amy's Animals]

I was told silkies don't lay until about 9 months of age, is this true????

 

[coberdor]

Mine start laying between 4 - 5 months.

 

[huckleberryfarm]

Most of my silkies have started laying around 7 months. But they don't lay very often. Just sit in the nest box for hours. They must think they are sitting on eggs but I lift them up and show them there aren't any. Silkies are cute and sweet but not terribly great egg producers! And their eggs are teeny tiny.

 

[Pjsmithsparky]

This is random but this is my 100th post yay

 

[TsaLaGi Acres]

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Has she crowed yet??

Ours are around 5 months and still no eggs, no crowing either lol

 

[Chicken-Man]

my girl laid her first egg yesterday. she hasn't got 24/7 accsess to grass but I let her out to run around every day and she is eating egg lay mix (im pretty sure. it's some kind of egg lay stuff) and if Is summer/autumn here. (Australia). I really want to know how old she is but first need to know when the aprox time of egg lay age she is. then I can do the math

Anyone able to help me out???

 

[lkosilkie]

I have 8 silkies in four different colors that are 5 1/2 months old & 3 of them just started laying last week. So far they are laying an egg every other day. I ordered all male silkies, but on reading more about silkies the books say that the silkie chicken is the hardest chicken to sex, so I may have more hens. The books also say the hens can start laying from 5 months - 9 months old. I may have to wait a few more months to see how many hens & how many roosters I have. They are such wonderful little creatures that it doesn't matter if I have hens or roosters. It sure is fun trying to guess which is a hen & which is a rooster. So far I am at 2 to 1. The two I thought were roosters because of the big waddles turned out to start laying eggs last week.

 

[StaceC]

Crowing is for males, a chicken cannot crow and lay eggs

Actually, I have an egg laying crowing chicken

 

[kellyloveschad]

MY PITT BULL IS A AWESOME GUARDIAN! SHE SAVED ONE FROM A RED TALL HAWK!! ALSO HELPS ME GET THEM IN THE COOP AT NIGHT!

 

[hamofburningash]

I got 7 silkies in April. 1 died in July. 1 started laying consistently in August everyday. Now mid-september we started getting about 4 per day. This morning a coyote killed 3,2 are ok, and 1 is missing probably dragged off by the coyote. Searching for 1 i checked the hen house, not in there but there was an egg that I took out. I locked the 2 left in the hen house to keep safe since that darn coyote was circling my yard. When I went out a few hours later to let the hens out, there were 8 eggs in the nesting box, 7 were still warm. So I had 9 eggs in 1 day. I guess the coyote scared the eggs right out of the 2 girls.