First EGG!!!!

[Kenkongfuty]

Okay I heard that chicken can start to lay eggs at the earliest of 6 month... and I have a white leghorn that just lay an egg. She is 5 month and 23 day old. Will she be fine or is it normal for white leghorn to lay really early? She also act kind of weird like if she is going to fall backward, is it because it's her first egg?

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Welcome to BYC - the "normal" range of time for a bird to start production varies quite widely and breed does play a big part in it. It is often better to consider age in terms of weeks rather than months when considering things such as beginning to lay as there can be several weeks +/- in what one person considers 6 months and what the next considers the same. Generally speaking production in the high production breeds might start at 16-26 weeks and in dual purpose breeds in the 20-28 week range with slower maturing breeds seeing it start at 24-30 weeks --- all of these are just general ranges and individual birds of each group can fall on either side of those ranges.

 

[N F C]

Congratulations on your first egg (and welcome to BYC)!