Any hope of eggs soon?

[bawkbawkbawk]

My girls will be 22 weeks old tomorrow and no sign of eggs or the squatting behavior I read about here. I switched them over to laying feed a couple of weeks ago. They are happy and healthy - they get plenty of time outside in their pen and a few hours a day of supervised free-ranging. Here are pix of three of the four from today.

Lily, my Delaware:

Hope, my Buff Orpington:

Amelia, the Light Brahma:

Do they look like they're having any kind of egg thoughts?????

 

[trilyn]

I would say soon (within a couple weeks) from the buff orp, the other 2 have a ways to go yet. I know it's tough, but hang in there-you've made it this far!

 

[Mrs.Puff]

Don't worry, they'll lay soon! They're good lookin' ladies. Usually when somebody posts "Will they lay soon?" the girls start right up the next day just to spite you.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Thanks to you both. My thought has been that the BO will be the first to lay - she has much more going on with the comb and wattle, and she does a lot of "nesting" behavior - fussing around with the paper towels and pine shavings in the coop.

I'm just a little worried that if they don't lay soon, they'll wait all the way to spring, and that's a LONG ways away!!!

 

[fordmommy]

Defenently soon. Those are some good looking chickens!

 

[Joyryder]

I'm still waiting on my BOs (12 of them), they were 22 weeks on Monday. The combs on some of them are red now. Should be soon. I'll post when I get my first. I bet my BO will beat your BO.

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Joyryder - I'll bet you're right - keep me posted.

FordMommy - thanks for the compliment!