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good to know.  I just got my first three Comets today!  18 weeks old.  Should be laying any day now!
The GC's are the best layers!  We've had ours for a year now and we got ours here in NC from Shook's Poultry in Claremont.  They also were 18 week old started pullets.  We got them in three batches of 6, 6, and 7 starting last April, June, and September.  Within a month after getting each batch they were laying.  We get 17-18 eggs each and every day from our 19 hens.  On some days we get 19.  Even during the cold wet miserable weather we had here in the mid-Carolinas they were giving us 16-17 eggs a day without fail.  You won't find a better layer.  And they are really people friendly and hardy.  You'll do good with them, I know.
Today we got 18 from our 19 GC's!!!  I've noticed a lot of folks here are reporting their Gals are starting to lay in quantity now that Spring has sprung.