I got my first egg from 1 of 3 FBCM today. 23wks old. It’s a 4 on the color scale so it was what I was expecting from a hatchery bird. It’s the little dark one in the pic along with White Leghorn, Speckled Sussex and a Production Blue. I’ll be getting more FBCM from a breeder this spring. I like these little birds.
Um... one. One pulletcstarted laying and has laid every day since. The other two pullets haven’t started and none of the seven hens are laying... most are still in varying stages of molt and the almost four-year-okd seems to have stopped laying altogether (hoping it’s not a reproductive illness.)
For some reason some of my non pullets are laying. This is not normal for my flock, they have NEVER laid in the winter after they came out of fall moult.