EEs 25 weeks and no eggs yet...

[mirjam]

Luckitri, I loved your Henrietta story!
My EE Henrietta (my avatar) is still not giving me eggs. She is going on 27 weeks now. Her EE sibling Cap'n Silver has been laying - about every 2nd or third day. Not exactly a topnotch producer, but I cherish these greenish eggs!

Does anybody know what the average laying rate for EEs is?

 

[luckitri]

At the feed stores they are always trying to sell me Ameracaunas and they always say they are good layers. I said that I don't want anymore because they don't lay much. So the one guy admitted that if I get 3 or 4 a week I am getting good production for that breed.

I am trying several breeds now to see how I like them and I am not so happy with that chart that comes up every time I google for productivity and breed characteristics (Hendersons' I think) because the chart is not true to my experience so I don't trust it - it doesn't really say how regular they produce as I recall.

vermontgal, I have read that they started using antibiotics in the feed in the 1940's I believe, as it increases size and production. I would love my chicks to be organic but all that I have ever had have refused organic food - period. So I am not going to worry about it. They get enough other things that they are semi-organic anyway.

 

[conroy]

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Our Snowy is almost 34 weeks...no eggs.

I read that someone's EE didn't lay until like 10 months. SO I am not on edge anymore. I also purchased a solar powered light for the coop. Maybe some more light will inspire her.

 

[tfpets]

I have over 80 chickens, most of them being young still waiting for their first egg girls...I only got 4 eggs today? It is hard to wait, isnt it....short daylight, weather, stress issues,(oooh, that was a scary scary car at the neighbors house today!) even molting young!
Wish I could just push the egg dispenser button and they'd just lay the egg when I want it!
Tina

 

[conroy]