24 1/2 weeks and no eggs!

[Chicksnmind]

Its official my birds are freeloading. I check for eggs several times a day but my Ee, d uccle and 2silkie girls have decided egg laying isn’t for them .

My EE has a crack in her beak and I’m a bit nervous to trim it. Will it hurt her? Here is picture of said freeloader..

Here is my other favorite freeloader . These two are my sweet girls.

 

[FeatherstoneFrm]

I feel it too, though mine are only 21 weeks. My Australorp has a beautiful bright red comb, she has been squatting for a couple of weeks and the cocketel of the same age had been mounting her for a few days. I check the boxes everyday even for signed of nesting but still nothing.
The suspense is killing me.
I also have a Rhode Island Red and a New Hampshire red that should not be far behind her.
Good luck to you. I hope you find eggs soon.

 

[Kfults]

In the same boat!

 

[Folly's place]

Patience is hard!!! If they are free ranging, there could be a nest somewhere outside. Try keeping them in their coop and run until late afternoon for a week and see if that's what's happening.
Belgian d'Uccles and Silkies tend to mature later, so still normal for them. EEs are mixed breeds, and some will be early to start, and some later.
So, you still are in the 'normal range' for who you have.
My one fling with Ameraucanas was my last; the girls started laying eggs at eleven months!
Mary

 

[moniquem]

My EE, BR, BA and SS turned 19 weeks on Thursday. All have been squatting and combs are super red for about 2 weeks. They all free range in the yard during the day, I have a 6' privacy fence so they can't roam to far. Despite making a really cute nesting box in the coop and setting up a couple homemade nesting boxes around the run, my EE this morning was looking for a nesting spot on my back porch! So I moved one of the nesting boxes so she could lay in it. A couple hours later she did!
She was really interested in my Kolrabi patch and when I looked closer in there I found a little green egg, most likely from yesterday. Somehow she had gotten over the fence?
The other BA and BR have been poking around a little bush but so far are still free-loading.
We scrambled up the 2 eggs from this morning and my daughter gobbled them up!