Trust me, I know how hard the wait is. Our first girl started laying on August 14. She is a Golden Comet, and she was 18 1/2 weeks old. Two more girls started laying this week at 24 weeks. So we went from having one egg a day to having three eggs a day. Wow! What a difference that makes. For the last month we have been hoarding eggs to have an omelet, and now we have 15 eggs because we were away for 5 days!!!! Patience is, indeed, a virtue.