24 weeks and no eggs?

[lymanmomof3]

My BO started laying this past Monday, at exactly 24 weeks. Since last Thursday I've gotten 7 eggs between the 2 of them! The Australorp makes a neat little bare spot in the corner of the nesting box to lay, the BO makes a huge mess in the hen house and I have to search for them! But she's given me 3 eggs in 3 days, good girl! The Brahma and Easter Egger are still trying to figure this all out.

 

[lareynadenada]

My Orp is also just starting to lay, she gave me a huge double yolker today, what color are your shells? Mine are kinda beige(ish) pinkish with speckles of white, just wondered if this is normal???

 

[memechick]

My Buff Orpington, Bonnie, gave us her first egg at 22 weeks old. It's been a week and a half now and she has given an egg a day consistently. Her three flockmates, a Black Australorp, a RIR, and a Barred Rock ..... nothing yet. All the same age.

 

[wildcat chix]

I have 2 EEs that absolutely will NOT lay. They are over 6 months old now and nothing....their combs are starting to redden quite a bit so I'm thinking any day now.

Like Tom Petty said - "The Waiting is the Hardest Part"

 

[LT]

We have three EE's and none of them started laying until about 30 weeks. Out of our flock of 10 original girls, the EE's were the last to begin laying. But I will say this, their yolks are some of the finest of our flock.

 

[Cindy in PA]

I have 12 23 week old chickens & my first EE started laying at 18.5 weeks, with the next by 19 weeks & now all 4 are laying. The Welsummers are not laying. Maybe 2 of 8 so far. I am getting not much but green eggs!

 

[TriangleMaster9]

Nice! They we're digging a whole next door so she might have layed by now if it weren't for that!

 

[IslandGirls]

Oh happy day, I got my first egg today...Yippee!!

I was just on this thread Tuesday checking to see who else besides me was waiting for their first egg(s). My flock of 6 wyandottes turned 24 weeks on Monday so I've been very antsy! Then low and behold I hear the "egg song" this afternoon at 3pm and to my joy....my first egg! The other girls need to take notes and get with the program!

 

[lymanmomof3]

Oh happy day, I got my first egg today...Yippee!!

I was just on this thread Tuesday checking to see who else besides me was waiting for their first egg(s). My flock of 6 wyandottes turned 24 weeks on Monday so I've been very antsy! Then low and behold I hear the "egg song" this afternoon at 3pm and to my joy....my first egg! The other girls need to take notes and get with the program!

YAY! Congrats! I love that..."egg song". I only heard it this past Sunday because I work while they lay generally and it truly is a song. My Orp starting laying on Monday and she has laid an egg every day this week! Remarkable!

My Orps eggs are roundish, very light tannish pink with white specks, too.

 

[lymanmomof3]

I have 2 EEs that absolutely will NOT lay. They are over 6 months old now and nothing....their combs are starting to redden quite a bit so I'm thinking any day now.

Like Tom Petty said - "The Waiting is the Hardest Part"

I read that my Easter Egger and Brahma won't lay til at least 7 months old so I've been putting all my eggs in the worker chickens basket so to speak!