9 Months Later, ...

[3KillerBs]

Finally, long after her hatch sisters from the Easter hatch have been laying, at 9 months old, Nugget has finally graced us with an olive egg.

So perfectly dull-olive that it's nearly gray.

But I'm not breeding a hen who took 9 months to lay her first egg.

 

[Tumbleweedlynn]

Finally, long after her hatch sisters from the Easter hatch have been laying, at 9 months old, Nugget has finally graced us with an olive egg.

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So perfectly dull-olive that it's nearly gray.

But I'm not breeding a hen who took 9 months to lay her first egg.

That’s beautiful!

 

[3KillerBs]

That’s beautiful!

Yes, but not beautiful enough to be worth hatching her babies.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

Finally, long after her hatch sisters from the Easter hatch have been laying, at 9 months old, Nugget has finally graced us with an olive egg.

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So perfectly dull-olive that it's nearly gray.

But I'm not breeding a hen who took 9 months to lay her first egg.

it's beautiful! Are you sure thats her frist egg, maybe she has been hiding them. Like mine. Thats a very large egg for a first timer. Congratulations!

 

[Poultrybonkers]

And here i wait for my bc1 to lay and shes an 4-17 hatch..prolly gonna dispatch her come spring. I dont think it ever will lay somethings wrong with it.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Pretty much none of my pullets laid this year. Still waiting on almost 30 or so first eggs

 

[nuthatched]

Pretty much none of my pullets laid this year. Still waiting on almost 30 or so first eggs

Just waiting for the dam to break..
I'm waiting on 5, 36 week olds and 3, 31 week olds to lay...

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Mine are mostly from the first week of April. So almost 10 months now. Other batch is 9 months now, and then randoms a month older or a few months younger

 

[3KillerBs]

it's beautiful! Are you sure thats her frist egg, maybe she has been hiding them. Like mine. Thats a very large egg for a first timer. Congratulations!

I've been pelvic checking her a couple times a week. It finally started increasing last week and her comb finally turned red.

And here i wait for my bc1 to lay and shes an 4-17 hatch..prolly gonna dispatch her come spring. I dont think it ever will lay somethings wrong with it.

I was starting to wonder if Nugget was a dud. Her Easter-hatch sisters have been laying since September.

Pretty much none of my pullets laid this year. Still waiting on almost 30 or so first eggs

A later-maturing breed?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I've been pelvic checking her a couple times a week. It finally started increasing last week and her comb finally turned red.



I was starting to wonder if Nugget was a dud. Her Easter-hatch sisters have been laying since September.



A later-maturing breed?

Not really. The araucans and marans are the 9 month old ones, and I guess they might be slower since there not hatchery birds like most but the others are all ones I feel should have started at the latest by 7 months. Heck, my freaking Ketwas were laying and they're definitely not egglaying birds