Close to laying?

[Isyovi]

She definitely looks like she is about to start laying!

Thanks!

 

[My2butterflies]

I read it somewhere, but her comb and wattles have become bigger and redder in the last couple of weeks. Compared to one of her sisters in the back she looks quite different now. Do you have a breed that is slow to mature? It can take some more time with those.

I have no idea, haha. I’m new to chickens and have very limited knowledge on them.
I have black sex links(one is laying), barred rocks, australorps, and one California white.

 

[Isyovi]

I have no idea, haha. I’m new to chickens and have very limited knowledge on them.
I have black sex links(one is laying), barred rocks, australorps, and one California white.

Same with me i just started keeping chickens. I have brahma's, 1 real leghorn and the others are mixes (still not really sure with what)

 

[Isyovi]

My RIR got a bigger and more red comb a couple weeks before she started to lay. It got noticeably floppy a day or two after she started. Yours looks pretty floppy (though I think leghorns are known for their big combs, maybe?) so I’d guess an egg is soon! Have you done a pelvic check? Doing so on my RIR allowed me to know that she was likely within a couple days of laying (and I was right!).

Try a pelvic check- feel between the two bones very near to her vent. If you can fit at least 2 fingers in between them, she should be close!!

I tried the pelvic check and i think a egg is coming soon! She wouldn't sit still so it was quite hard

 

[Isyovi]

Bright red, often glossy comb and waddles indicates a healthy and sexually mature bird.

I watched a youtube today that said the color of their eggs can be determined (before they start laying) by the color of their earlobes. Judging by the photograph, her eggs should be white. When she finally lays her first egg for you, please let us know if they are indeed white eggs, please.

So a couple of weeks later and we got our first egg! I contacted the breeder and said they were most likely blue polish x leghorn mixes. They are both known to have white eggs. In real life it had a bit of a pinkish tint to it though.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Yeah!

 

[HappyClucker7]

Congrats on your first egg!

 

[Isyovi]

Bright red, often glossy comb and waddles indicates a healthy and sexually mature bird.

I watched a youtube today that said the color of their eggs can be determined (before they start laying) by the color of their earlobes. Judging by the photograph, her eggs should be white. When she finally lays her first egg for you, please let us know if they are indeed white eggs, please.

I will do!

 

[Isyovi]

Looks more like a Cream Legbar mix.

Yes, that birds comb looks pretty red, but not plump and glossy.
You may be amazed when the comb gets plumper and glossy.

Not always true. Cream Legbars have white earlobes but lay blue shells.
Since this bird is a mix she may or may not lay a blue shell...could lay green or light blue, or white shell with brown coating, depending on genetics and coating color.
There was a another thread recently about a CLB in EU that laid light brown.
OP did some research and found some interesting genetic background about it.

Yes, here's how:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/who-is-laying-and-who-is-not-butt-check.73309/
Tho pelvic spread, like squatting, can happen a couple weeks before actually laying.

Thanks for the video! A legbar and leghorn mix was the other option we thought about. In the photo the earlobes look quite white but in real live they have kind of a greenish tint to them, so it could be!

 

[BallsEleven]

I noticed 2 weeks ago that the combs on 2 of mine had gotten larger and red. The next week one of them started squatting when my boys would try to catch them. Then we got home this Sunday from a weekend trip and found our first egg in the coop.

17 weeks old white leghorn/Rhode Island Red mix