Do Different Breeds Start Laying at Different Times???

[TriangleMaster9]

Usually. The Henderson chart states "late" or "early" maturing.

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

My Red Star/EE's started at around 5 1/2 months.

Why doesn't the Henderson chart have sexlinks? Thats what half my chickens are! Then again I only have 4...

 

[mrsc1951]

Both my Australorps and Lt Brahmas started laying at 20 weeks; almost to the day. EE (bantam) was about 25 weeks. Now I have another EE (standard) at 17 weeks who is checking out the nesting boxes on a regular basis and her brood mate who is half cochin joins in when one of the older girls sings the egg song. Go figure? I think breed has a lot to do with it but what it boils down to is when the pullet is physically/sexually mature enough to lay an egg. I know there are some that lay early but in my experience most don't start before 20 weeks. Good luck.

 

[Linda May]

I have some EE & a variety of other chickens hatched at the same time. I kept them all together away from my older hens so i would know exactly when they would start to lay. I sold some of these birds at about 12-16 weeks. I told the buyers they could lay as early as 16 weeks and up to 20 weeks. Meanwhile one of my EE escaped and ran with my mature hens. She started to lay at 19/20 weeks. I waited another 4 weeks for my cooped hens to lay. 1 hen started to lay and I waited another week.... Then I took all but 2 roosters from that hatch out of the run. 2 days later they started to lay. Different circumstances of the birds gave me different results. The hen that escaped and was out on grass that could get away from my roosters layed at about 5 months. 35 confined bird with 5 roosters took 25 weeks.

 

[Den in Penn]

Why doesn't the Henderson chart have sexlinks? Thats what half my chickens are! Then again I only have 4...

Henderson is about breeds of chickens. Sex links are not a breed but a cross of two breeds.

 

[TriangleMaster9]

Yes, true, but they are becoming increasingly more common and I think should be added.