8 week old layer!!!!!!!!!! Pics up !!!!!

[sloallie10]

I dont bleivie it.

 

[Adan and his cool chicks]

That is weird but normal in most cases I bought 2 RIR and 2 Barred rocks last summer and one of them layed her first egg at around 8 weeks old I thought this was odd but every other day there was a new egg and really small and in order to check which one is the magical laying hen you only have to look at their combs and the one with the biggest comb is the magical hen

 

[Cherrypie]

Do they have yolks?

 

[bryan8]

The pheasants are only 14 week old so they cant lay yet. And if they could, they only lay in spring anyways. Also my pullets attack the pheasants if they go near them

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

stranger things have happened I don't have any young layers but I do have an 8 week old silkie that is crowing already. He is still inside in the brooder. He started last week at 7 weeks. Yet I have a 4 month old who just crowed for the first time this week. Whos to say all chickens are exactly alike and adhear to the same timetables

 

[ChooksChick]

Those have to be pheasant eggs- there's no way a chicken would lay an egg that looked like that...

 

[cmjust0]

Is it possible that a wild bird isn't necessarily coming and going from the coop, but is actually trapped in the coop with the chickens? I wouldn't be as though it would starve or die of thirst -- if the chickens are being fed and watered, the wild bird could just carry on eating and drinking their food alongside them..

 

[bryan8]

Again the pheasants can not and are not laying eggs now. And the eggs look darker in person, the flash kinda washed the color out. I checked the whole coop and there is not a wild bird anywhere to be found

 

[CallyB57]

My chickens are supposed to be 'slow' maturing chickens - Light Brahmas and they got quite large in 16-17 weeks time. They hatched out on March 4...I got them on March 6 as day old chicks. I didn't think I would have any eggs until September, so didn't make any nesting boxes for them. One of my pullets started to develop a swelled up comb and it turned pink, then kinda red - started about a month ago to 'pink up', as it were. She laid an egg in my flower bed a couple of days ago...I was flabbergasted it had 3 yolks, but thin shell. I am not sure, but I thought since they were 'slow' maturing chickens that they would have to be at least 20-24 weeks before dropping an egg. It was a very pleasant surprise, but now that I know what signs to look for as the pullets get closer to laying, I'm not even going to worry about what age they are supposed to be to lay, any more. I bought 15 more Brahmas - dark and buff from a hatchery and hope they lay as quickly as this Light Brahma did.

 

[CallyB57]

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It's unbelievable - yet, I do believe it...do you believe my first chicken egg had 3 yolks. I never would have believed THAT if someone had told me - so I believe his young chicken laid those eggs. Sometimes you just have to believe without seeing.