A contest for the duds!

[driver]

I had 4 duds when this thread was started, and am down to 2 now! My Cuckoo Marans started laying 3 days ago. My Black Australorp, who has LOOKED ready for months now, squatted for me yesterday.

 

[PirateGirl]

@driver that's awesome! Any day now! Maybe you will get lucky and they will both lay the same day! Peer pressure.

 

[Katie’s Coop]

I had 4 duds when this thread was started, and am down to 2 now! My Cuckoo Marans started laying 3 days ago. My Black Australorp, who has LOOKED ready for months now, squatted for me yesterday.

@driver soooo Happy your girls are producing and the Australorp will be any day!
Today I had 2 more brown egg layers join the party! Daisy Mae and Ruby laid their first eggs today!

 

[PirateGirl]

Our days are still short, really short, but I guess the increasing light is really doing something.

So 2 days ago I had 3 eggs from my 5 girls, yesterday only 1 egg hopefully it will get more consistent. I didn't realize egg laying was such a sensitive thing until after I got chickens. I may just need twice as many birds to get the eggs I want!

 

[Cryss]

Our days are still short, really short, but I guess the increasing light is really doing something.

So 2 days ago I had 3 eggs from my 5 girls, yesterday only 1 egg hopefully it will get more consistent. I didn't realize egg laying was such a sensitive thing until after I got chickens. I may just need twice as many birds to get the eggs I want!

Chicken Math strikes again!

 

[driver]

My BA laid her first egg today! Now my only dud is the easter egger. A recap of first egg ages:

Golden Comet: 23 weeks
Golden Laced Wyandotte: 29.5 weeks
Cuckoo Marans: 34.5 weeks
Black Australorp: 35 weeks
Easter Egger: ?????

 

[katieuppi]

I still have two duds now at 38 weeks. OMG, the freeloading

 

[PirateGirl]

@katieuppi will the freeloading ever end???? Seriously, something's gotta give.

maybe we need more shaming photos of the offenders!

 

[shadowfox]

My BA laid her first egg today! Now my only dud is the easter egger. A recap of first egg ages:

Golden Comet: 23 weeks
Golden Laced Wyandotte: 29.5 weeks
Cuckoo Marans: 34.5 weeks
Black Australorp: 35 weeks
Easter Egger: ?????

This makes me feel a bit better about my hens. They're 20 or 21 weeks at this point and I'm starting to get impatient. I've got 3 Barred Rocks, 2 Australorps, and 2 EEs. Their Combs and wattles are really starting to grow and get red. My biggest girls have been squatting since the end of December and a few other have started in the weeks since... Will they ever start laying!?

 

[VBirmingham]

I think I may have a dud. I have 4 hens born 3/23/17. Penguin (Black Australorp) laid 8/1 at 18.5 weeks. Fancy (Speckled Sussex) laid 9/17 at 25.5 weeks. Cheeks (Easter Egger) laid 9/28 at 27.5 weeks. Buffy (Buff Orpington) either laid the large egg in the picture on 10/3 at 27.5 weeks or hasn't laid anything at all and that was a large egg from Penguin. Can anyone tell from the picture if that is from a Buff Orpington? I haven't seen another like it and the girls are now 43.5 weeks old. Buffy hasn't ever squatted but I did recently catch her going in to the coop during the day. Maybe she'll start laying once the days get longer?