1 out of 3 chickens laying, why?

[Sllovenberg]

I made my first mistake when I got chicks from TS. ugh! 2 were meat birds and 1 is a roo. They were supposed to be 6 laying hens. With that said I'm in NJ and I got them mid April. I have 2 Astrolorps and 1 EE (I think) and of course the roo. One of the Astro's is laying eggs, about 4 eggs a week, and she has been doing that for about 3 weeks now, no one else is laying. Is there something wrong.. they all seem fine but not laying. Does anyone have any suggestions. They are eating Layer feed and I have extra calcium & grit on hand all the time. I'm patiently waiting for more eggs!

 

[sourland]

You are not doing anything wrong. They just mature at different rates of speed, and the EE in particular may be very late in maturation.

 

[nuthatched]

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Tsc typically gets their chicks from meyer or hoovers (low quality hatcheries, imo) who sends breeds at random and usually gets both breed and gender wrong

 

[NatJ]

Is there something wrong.. they all seem fine but not laying. Does anyone have any suggestions. They are eating Layer feed and I have extra calcium & grit on hand all the time. I'm patiently waiting for more eggs!

Different breeds, and even different individuals, mature at different speeds.

One year I got a dozen female chicks (a variety of breeds) in late June. The first one started laying the end of November, then every few weeks one more would start, with the slowest of all waiting until April!

 

[Sllovenberg]

Your pictures didn't show.
Tsc typically gets their chicks from meyer or hoovers (low quality hatcheries, imo) who sends breeds at random and usually gets both breed and gender wrong

Just added some pics