19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

[Rhoise]

Are Leghorns very personable? I like the look of a plain white chicken...purdy! But I like chickens that do well with my kids too. Thoughts?

check out amber whites from dunlaps hatchery in calwell idaho....I love mine so sweet and pretty docile, "BETTY WHITE" layed at 19 weeks and has pretty brown eggs

 

[Rhoise]

ok, i understand that i'm prob jumping into this thread a bit early. My batch of 19 Leghorn pullets are only 16 weeks old. I''ve read all of this thread i think, and have seen several reports of early layers.
Here are a couple pics of my girls. Most of them are clearly weeks away from laying. Combs and waddles are still small and pink. One of my girls (Floppy) is well developed and is coming closer to me then ever before, nearly following me around the coop.


Floppy with Celeste.

Pretty chickens! Floppy looks close!!

 

[StarLover21]

Why does my chicken love to torture me? My Maran is 31 weeks and no eggs

I'm also waiting, but much more patientely, on my 14 week old Salmon Faverolle- hopefully she''l lay ealier than her friend the maran! Her comb is already beggining to grow, so I'm hopeful!

 

[B J Hopkins]

Are Leghorns very personable? I like the look of a plain white chicken...purdy! But I like chickens that do well with my kids too. Thoughts?

I had some Brown Leggerns given to me a couple yrs ago. Couldn't get near them. This spring I bought 5-day old Brown Leggerns. I've quite a few other pullets and hand feed them a little bit ever day or every other day. The Leggerns come close, peck at my shoe laces & buttons but don't like to be picked up. They will eat out of my hand. Seems it's how they are reared. But they do tend to be flighty. Don't know about being mean as I've not had a Leggern rooster.

 

[ldomerese]

they probably wont lay till they are 20 to 24 weeks

 

[B J Hopkins]

Sometimes it just takes them a little while to get to where they want to squat. I have a RIR that has been red in the face for a few weeks now, but she never squatted for me. Yesterday, my brother went to scratch her back, and she squatted for him! She still wouldn't do it for me, until today. You will know the squat when you see it. The chicken hunkers down and kind of raises their shoulders, almost like they're about to take a huge jump.

The "squat" is actually for when the Rooster mates w/the hen. The fact that they do it for people they are familiar with show they recognize you as the dominate one.

 

[FirewifeJess]

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Yes, this. That's why I'm glad we got rid of our rooster. The girls were so aloof and boring and would never come near me. Tradeoffs though, because now I have to watch where I'm stepping, they're always RIGHT there at my feet! LOL

 

[blondiebee181]

He knows ... he's just shy about compliments sometimes. I love the whole chicken craft thing (and I've been so nasty about crafting before this!). I'll have to go search for a chicken craft thread here at BYC ... Boyfriend has made a couple of these sticks, each one totally different, and has an awesome turkey herding pole, too. I'm not sure he realizes just how cool they are, though. They feel great in your hand ... plus that, Magic Chicken Feathers!

So far I've collected feathers and gonna make earrings, I've blown out a few eggs intending to paint them and make christmas ornaments, and I think I'll give a few more feathers to my uncle Wil for making flies...such useful little critters I never owned before!

And, yeah my boyfriend thinks I'm totally nuts.....in a cute, endearing, sort of pathetic way

 

[blondiebee181]

its killing me!!!!!! i only have two, there w leghorns so from what ive read once they start there awsome layers. i know im getting close any day now but im telling ya its killing me. im new at this & i love the birds but u can keep this waiting on eggs biz. LOL

Yeah I have a White Leghorn too, Daisy. Boy, she is miss priss queen bee of the flock (except for the older, fatter and bossier SLW, Silver) They are quite dainty and beautiful aren't they? Lovely eggs too and very consistent layers. The egg song is almost enough to make my ears bleed though, lol

If there was a chicken opera, the Leghorns would be the sopranos.

 

[blondiebee181]

Got my first SLW egg today!!

SLW eggs are pretty, my Silver finally stopped moulting and layed today. The lightest shade of brown.....almost white