Point of lay?

[mackenzie450]

Most Gold Sexlinks (aka Red Sexlinks...and many such names)...lay around 18 weeks...so she is very, very close...and likely laying. (And the head shot does look like a Golden Sexlink...just had to ask in case something was lurking behind the body shot).

If she has access to free range, then she can and may have a stash. The time I find huge stashes are with my young pullets who I am expecting to lay soon but am not actively looking for eggs yet. I had one get a pile of 18 and another about 21 before I figured out the silly thing was laying in the vine bushes.

Often new pullets won't lay in the nest boxes as the mature hens will push them out at first...they are seen as late comers and intruders into the favorite nests of the older girls.

Yes, locking her up in the coop/run for a week, once she is laying, will help settle her into the nest box.

LofMc

Thanks for the advice! She will be my first of the ten in my flock to lay, so she has full access to the lay boxes. None of the others are showing signs of being close yet. I've gone on many egg hunts and haven't found one yet! I'm glad she is close!

 

[mackenzie450]

Thank j

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She is a Chicken and will lay that egg...Soon too!
Hens like home and if your nest boxes are soft with straw and shavings? she will use those.
If they Roost every night in the coop with the nest boxes you will be so happy to find the egg in the near future. I think in about a week.?
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Thank you so much for your help! She roosts every night in the coop by the lay boxes so I will expect an egg there. Thanks again!!

 

[mackenzie450]

No eggs yet, but today she was singing the egg song loudly in the yard. I can't find an egg anywhere. Do they sometimes sing the egg song if they are close to laying?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Yes...and they will go in and come out, go in and come out of the nest area. They sense they are supposed to do something but aren't sure what yet. Sort of like pre-labor pains.

LofMc

 

[AKChickenGal]

If you are still letting her out you might want to look for a stash of eggs. I had a pullet that was the smallest of the bunch and I thought she was just a little late in laying eggs compared to the others. She would disappear for about an hour every morning and I would search and search for her. Even if I only let her out for an hour in the afternoon it was like she was holding it to run for her hiding spot. When I finally found her very concealed nest there were 9 eggs! The others had only been laying for five or six days (and all in the coop). So if you still don't have eggs and you think you should by now then I would definitely recommend locking her up all day or plan on following her around!

 

[mackenzie450]

If you are still letting her out you might want to look for a stash of eggs. I had a pullet that was the smallest of the bunch and I thought she was just a little late in laying eggs compared to the others. She would disappear for about an hour every morning and I would search and search for her. Even if I only let her out for an hour in the afternoon it was like she was holding it to run for her hiding spot. When I finally found her very concealed nest there were 9 eggs! The others had only been laying for five or six days (and all in the coop). So if you still don't have eggs and you think you should by now then I would definitely recommend locking her up all day or plan on following her around!

Thank you!!! I'll confine her to the run/coop today and see if she lays an egg for me.

 

[mackenzie450]

This is a chicken and not a rooster, right?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Give a full profile photo so we can see back feathers and tail.

LofMc

 

[mackenzie450]

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Looks like a Red Sex Link hen in those photos.
LofMc