Fall chicks will start to lay in the Feb/March timeframe bc the light is increasing, and they have matured! Light plays a big role in laying. So do you have added light in the coop? We have one light connected to a timer to give them 14 hours of light total (combined with daylight). We only use this fall/winter/early spring. We have heritage breeds, so they aren’t production types and lay 5-6 eggs/week in full sunlight/long days, but slow to 2-5 eggs/week per bird in winter even with light. Some breeds are better layers than others.
We have BJG (one male, one female) that are 20 months old. The female was the last of her batch to lay, but she started to lay around 26 weeks. She was a Late Feb hatch. We now have one more BJG female that is 16 weeks old, she is going to start to lay in the late winter/ early spring, I think. The BJG are slower to grow-for sure!
