17 week olive egger started laying!

[Carsonandmyflock]

An aberration! My 17 week olive egger (crested cream legbar/presumed maran) laid her 1st egg! She started squatting about a week ago and now an egg each day for the last 3. They seem to be getting darker too I thought they were pixie eggs because they're so petite but one was even a tiny double yolk. Maybe small because she's a teen mom. Now her blue copper maran sister is squatting and I think she'll lay soon. I'm so happy because my latest batch of chicks are mostly heavy birds so I thought they'd be 6-9 months before I saw any eggs. It's there a gene for early laying?!

Attached pictures of the tiny eggs/color progression and my hen.

 

[The Coop Crew]

Beautiful eggs

 

[aart]

I thought they were pixie eggs because they're so petite

Typical pullet egg, they will get larger as time goes on.
Can take days to weeks to months for eggs to get to that birds 'normal' size.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

An aberration! My 17 week olive egger (crested cream legbar/presumed maran) laid her 1st egg! She started squatting about a week ago and now an egg each day for the last 3. They seem to be getting darker too I thought they were pixie eggs because they're so petite but one was even a tiny double yolk. Maybe small because she's a teen mom. Now her blue copper maran sister is squatting and I think she'll lay soon. I'm so happy because my latest batch of chicks are mostly heavy birds so I thought they'd be 6-9 months before I saw any eggs. It's there a gene for early laying?!

Attached pictures of the tiny eggs/color progression and my hen.

Yay! Congrats for you. Some dual purpose breeds CAN start laying at 16-18 weeks, and then you have some that are 20-24 and even further out. Some can just depend on the individual too. Last year one of our Light Brahma decided 17ish weeks was a good time to start while her giant sister waited much later.

Our recent olive eggers started around 16.5 weeks with tiny double yokers. There is an article here somewhere about egg formation and how when they first start laying there can be glitches in the system so to speak; they'll even put in a few months

 

[Carsonandmyflock]

Typical pullet egg, they will get larger as time goes on.
Can take days to weeks to months for eggs to get to that birds 'normal' size.

Thanks for intel. I'm realizing maybe these are from different pullets... the color wouldn't vary that much right? I'm thinking it's her crested cream legbar sister laying the light ones.

 

[aart]

I'm realizing maybe these are from different pullets... the color wouldn't vary that much right?

Not likely, tho green eggs are blue shells with brown coating...and sometimes the coating does not get applied.

I'm thinking it's her crested cream legbar sister laying the light ones.

Probably.

 

[PrettyBirdRocky]

We have an olive egger that at times lays a heavy bloom causing her eggs to look pale grey and not her general olive green. It's kinda neat! Her sisters at times lay speckled ones but not always too

And our newest laying olive egger eggs have been getting darker with each lay.