I am also. I've learned so much about chickens the past 5 months, some from our library and a lot from here.I'm very appreciative of this forum and all the resources it's members provide for each other.
Mother2Hens posted: I'm kinda thinking about putting some wooden eggs in to see if I can get a broody hen who would hatch two eggs. My coop was made for 6 hens and I have 5, but just 4 egg layers. I'm not sure what the story is with my Jersey, but she pretends to lay eggs. I could use a couple of more egg layers since family and friends enjoy the eggs.
vicki chicki posted: Oooh what is that I hear... the tapping on a calculator... the adding up of the start of Mothers chicken math.....
vicki chicki~ You shouldn't make fun of people who have a math disability. This is the way I "figured" it:
Coop = 6 chickens (although it is roomy, with enough perch room for 10, but I wouldn't want to have a crowd!)
I have 5
One doesn't lay so that means minus 1*, which equals 4
* minus 1 doesn't mean she will be going to any kind of camp! She just doesn't count in my list of layers.
So I have room for 2 more.
It's quite logical!
To jchny, Sally, Crafty~ I appreciate the offers of eggs, but I will have to talk to my hens about it first. haha As if they'd listen to me. I need pipd's broody Garfield-looking hen to give a motivational speech to one of my hens about the joys of sitting in a nesting box 24/7.
"Who are you callin' 'Garfield-looking'?!"[COLOR=006400]To jchny, Sally, Crafty~[/COLOR] I appreciate the offers of eggs, but I will have to talk to my hens about it first. haha As if they'd listen to me. I need [COLOR=006400]pipd's[/COLOR] broody Garfield-looking hen to give a motivational speech to one of my hens about the joys of sitting in a nesting box 24/7.
Today she's sitting in the broody-buster, brooding in a different way. 
18-20 weeks is about the earliest to expect eggs. I've had some (*cough Frou-frou cough*) wait until 33 weeks or later, though. I have a video of one of my girls doing the egg song, if you'd like to hear it.
She also crows a couple times in that video, but that isn't normal of an egg song. 
You must have gotten your chicks the same time I did (first week of March). So we are looking at that time frame too, and stuck wondering who will lay the first egg. I do have one Egyptian Fayoumi pullet, and they are supposed to be very early to maturity, so we will see. The Fayoumi roo we got started crowing at 4 weeks, when he was still in the brooder. Only one of the other roos is crowing even now at 10 weeks.
you think duke is bad try the remc out of martinsville 9 out of 10 times it takes several hours for me to get power restored, and I live just 3/4 of a mile of a major highway and few trees anywhere near the lines..... no reason why our outages last so long. One time they forgot to re=connect a breaker on a pole and it took them 4 days to come out with a bucket truck and a lineman to litterally flip a switch mounted to the top of a pole!
