Earliest egg you have gotten and from what breed?

[ESofVA]

I know some breeds of chickens start laying earlier than others and not asking to determine anything. I have just been wondering what is the earliest age that everyone has actually had a chicken lay an egg and what breed was the chicken??? I can remember my grandfather keeping his young pullets in a seaprate house and sometimes their first eggs were very small, usually w/o any yolk in them. But I never knew how old they really were.

 

[TonysChickens]

My earliest so far is my Buff Orpington (one of two) who started at 18 weeks (the second has not started yet and its at 23 weeks now). My black sex-link also started at 18 weeks. The buff orpington has laid 1 egg a day every day except skipping a day or 2 during the first week of laying. I thought orpingtons aren't prolific layers!

 

[aoxa]

Mixed breed hen (phoenix x something else - not sure) she started at 18 weeks almost to the day (if not a day or too early).

 

[ESofVA]

Wow! That is so neat!

 

[jlquick30]

Most of our red sex links started laying at 16 weeks. They're 20 weeks now and all of them are laying.

 

[donrae]

Red sex link 16-17 weeks.

 

[ESofVA]

Sooo...so far the sex-links are by far winning out. I knew they layed well...didn't realize they layed earlier!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Commercial red sex-links at sixteen weeks.

 

[sberry]

Not sure what I have in terms of breed (that's another post altogether), but production red or RIR whichever I have, I've two laying at 18 weeks and nothing yet from the others (now 20 weeks).

 

[cmom]

Generally many of my birds have started laying from 18 weeks to 24 weeks. I have had an Isa Brown start laying at 16 weeks and other Isa Browns and Rhode Island Reds start at 17 weeks.The eggs do start out small at first. The only yolk-less eggs I have come across is fart or wind eggs. Some I have had, have had a very tiny yolk. Here are some pics of a fart/wind egg next to a regular egg.