@Jadenrosesmom Most larger sized birds take longer to mature. I had little Silkies where one started to lay at 8 months old and one at 6 months -- who knows why? But the one that started to lay sooner also died because of a bleeding ovarian tumor by 6-yrs-old while the Silkie that started laying later is still around at 7-yrs. Was there a correlation in that scenario? I don't know, just making note of whether my earlier layers get reproductive problems later in life or not.