21 week old pullets...no eggs...I'm going crazy!

[blackbelt]

Patients friends It's the hot whether. The girls will come threw. Out of 85 chickens or so, I get 65 or 68 eggs a day, they slowed down because of the heat. I do have a fan in the hen house drawing the heat out, every now and again I get one or two in the yard.

 

[trunkman]

They'll start laying any day now, just go to the coop not expecting anything and soon you'll get the surprise your waiting for! That's what happened to me.

 

[gettinaclue]

I had a BR with bright red comb and wattles who I was just waiting to lay me an egg.
Had a gentleman who kept chickens for years tell me to wait until we got some cooler weather. He was right. We had a couple of days where the mercury didn't quite reach 90 and that's when I got my first egg from that Barred rock.

I have a Jersey Giant that I think laid a soft shell egg today. Another BR that is thinking about laying an egg sometime this year, and the other 7 don't seem to want to grow their combs and wattles. If I'm lucky, they'll lay sometime in the next century.

I have never heard an egg song, and I have never seen any squating. Neither has DD, and she spends a lot of time with the chickens. The eggs seem to just magically appear. LOL

 

[Morgan7782]

I have a 16 week old Barred Rock, but I expect her to lay closer to 20-24 weeks because her face is still very pink. I also have a Brahma somwhere around 20-24 weeks old but she is also just pink in the face, no redness. I will be waiting along with you!

 

[sheaviance1]

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We had a pretty bad thunderstorm here today that dropped the temperature from 100 to 80. I got my first egg today!!! I think there is something to this theory.

 

[mstokes]

This all makes me feel so much better! Our oldest, a 24 weeks old Jersey Giant, is getting HUGE but has no interest in laying eggs it seems. If we are going to have to wait on cooler weather, it's going to be another three months! So are there any hints on helping make her cooler so maybe she thinks it is not 103 outside?

 

[newlyweds]

I think it just varies, everyone says EE's take forever but all 4 of mine started laying at or before 20 weeks, now my SLW, BO are 22 weeks still no eggs. My BA's are 20 weeks this week and one started laying already the other is doing the squat so it shouldn't be long.

 

[Lotsapaints]

My Cuckoo Marans started at 20 weeks then Delawares at 21 then Partridge Rocks at 21 1/2 weeks and for a surprise I had some meat X's lay some @ 16 weeks now just a week later they are starting to lay everyday except for the 16 week old ones they are taking a few days off which is good I would rather they wait a few weeks longer. Really it's better for pullets to wait until 24 weeks they will lay better and longer soon you will be over run with pullet eggs I got 13 today

 

[PoultryPeeps]

My Cuckoo Marans cross hen is 21 weeks and she just started laying! I have a bunch of different breeds at point of lay, and in the past couple days have 4 eggs that I really think all came from different hens. They are all different sizes and shades of brown. I'm sure the tiny one must have come from my gold laced bantam Cochins. Of course they made their own "nest box" in the coop and are all laying the same place at least!

 

[SkyWarrior]

I got my first egg from one of my EEs at 25 weeks. No one else is laying and they're anywhere from 18 to 25 weeks old.

I think if I didn't get an egg from MIFChick I think I would've told them all they were going to visit Colonel Sanders.