My pullet's first egg & questions

[bantyshanty]

My oldest pullet laid her first egg today
She's exactly 20 weeks old. She's a silkie, and it looked just like every silkie egg should, I think.
Of the 40+ silkie eggs we've incubated, it weighed as much as any of them & looked clean with a nice soft sheen to the shell.
We cracked it & it had a normal size yolk -unfertilized.
So will she lay an egg nearly every day, or only occasionally in the beginning? I've never had a young hen before. It's been good spring weather.

And how to get her to lay inside the coop, not on the ground under the nest box? She doesn't like the coop...
There are wooden eggs inside.

 

[joedie]

I don't have any Silkies but when my pullets started to lay, it didn't take them long to start laying almost every day, maybe a week? I had a few that laid them on the ground either under the nest boxes or under the roosts but after a few weeks they started to lay in the boxes. Just give them time to get it all figured out.

 

[lambchicks]

I have red sexlinks that are almost a year old. They started laying around 20 weeks, however they didn't start putting the eggs in the nesting box until about 2 months ago! We were considering taking out the nesting boxes. So as said before, give them time they will figure it out.

 

[bantyshanty]

Update: She had it figured out in a week. She started using the middle of 3 nest boxes last Saturday and now has been laying in it every day for a week.
She's cooped inside (the garage) at night, put out in the 15 x 15 run, and she thinks the 4-hen coop in the run is her personal nest box. She won't let anyone else in if she's in it.
She also scratches around looking for the eggs we take each evening before laying.

Is this a sign of...broodiness coming?