26 weeks old and still waiting!!!

[Damummis]

My 10 Cochin hens are 26 weeks as well. NO eggs!!!!

I even went to the store and bought 18 eggs in hopes I had the "new snow shovel effect" (buy a new shovel so it doesn't snow). I really am impatient.

Do you think squeezing them helps???

 

[chickensducks&agoose]

no. squeezing doesn't help... neither does yelling, or begging, or making deals. Those chickens do NOT respect the sanctity of a pinkie-swear!

 

[shaggy]

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wait until they lay the first one .... it is so much more suspenseful waiting for the second one .... i think the second wait is just out of spite

 

[Roni]

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You know I had thought of squeezing them!! (Only joking!) I am not so wicked though and have resorted to giving them a cuddle and a hug in the morning (albeit a 'firm' one!).

I have shown them what a egg box looks like and also what a roasting tin looks like, alas to no avail!!

 

[Cluckatar]

We have 7 hens we bought as three-day olds back in April. Just last week I got first eggs from two of my Welsummers and one of my EE's. They held out until 39 weeks! I'd been gathering eggs from the Turken since 22 weeks, and the Barnevelder and my other EE from around 26-28 weeks. I still have one Wellie who has yet to lay a single egg. No, she doesn't crow I'm still in awe every day I gather eggs at the beautiful colors and how sweet they are. But I have to say, some chickens just take longer. I mean, a 17 week difference in first egg laid from a group of hens who are living together since they were three days old and eating all the same foods is a pretty big range! The Wellies just seemed to need longer to get to their full adult size (they are a bit bigger than my other hens). The second EE... I've no idea what took her so long, but her eggs are a beautiful blue (her sisters are a sea-green) so it was worth the wait. That one wellie still waiting to lay aside, each of our hens lays a distinctly colored egg so I can really tell who is doing what. So much fun