6 month olds to the day and no eggs yet. :(

[hilaryhake]

I have 8 Rhode Island Red hens and 2 Rhode Island Red Roosters. They are exactly 6 months old today and they have not laid a single egg. They get a quality layer feed, they free range from 4pm-8pm and the weather has been beautiful. Their combs are a nice bright red also. The roosters have begun crowing and trying to mount the hens. I have placed fake eggs in the nesting boxes even. Still no eggs. When oh when will these stubborn hens start laying their eggs? I have never had hens take this long to start laying before! It is frustrating me lol.

 

[Veer67]

You probably have to wait chickens start laying from about 22-25 weeks and longer.

 

[Mac14]

Also make sure to look around in any hidden places they may be laying, or if can't find anything, you might need to wait a couple more weeks. The waiting is so hard!

 

[Mehjr10]

They should be giving eggs here soon.. You can get some deer netting and put over the top of your run to keep them from flying out and any birds of prey from flying in..

 

[Mehjr10]

The Guineas will do that, I lost a couple of my first batch to the same problem.. The deer netting solved that one..

 

[bradleyscott]

I gor a 50 x 50 fly pen net from amazon.com for $60. I'm happy with it.

 

[Chicks Galore3]

ploub and hilaryhake - Hope your girls lay soon! It is always so hard. What type of chickens do you have ploub?

HilaryHake- It sounds like you take such good care of your babies! I bet they're spoiled rotten.

 

[Mehjr10]

Yay Breakfast in the morning !

 

[hilaryhake]

We got 3 brown eggs today! Woohoo! Except, I added 7 more RIRs to our flock this week that are about the same age so the eggs could be coming from them lol. Either way, we are getting eggs and if the newbies are laying the eggs hopefully they will teach the others what they are supposed to be doing.

 

[hilaryhake]

Well they are 24 weeks old today so that hopefully means anytime now lol.