OK 19 weeks and still NO EGGS!!! GRRRR! **EDIT**(We HAVE EGGS NOW!!!!)

[JennsPeeps]

I've got 3 standards that are coming up on 29 weeks. The BSL started laying 2 weeks ago but the RIR & BR are still mooching.

My banty cochin is about 33=34 weeks old and still hasn't showed any signs of laying.

 

[Pretty Pony]

My Silver Laced girls haven't started laying yet, either.

I keep thinking I am doing something wrong, like not feeding the right food. I am worried about them getting egg-bound(?). I even got the girls a nice roo, named Rooster Bob, thinking that that would help get them in the egg making mood but still nothing.

Here in Colo., it is cold and we have snow. My chickens won't even go out in the snow!!

 

[johncampanelli]

My White Rocks and Barred Rocks started laying at 20 1/2 weeks. My RIR's at 21 and my Arucuana at 21 1/2.

I am turning on a light for them at 3:30 a.m. however.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

My one girl didnt start until 22/23 weeks. And that is just ONE of the 5 hens

 

[MrGreenJeans]

I'm in Colorado as well and 7 of my 9 girls are 25 weeks old (the other 2 about 20 weeks) with no eggs yet. BUT, one of my partridge rocks did the squat for me on Wednesday ! Scared me a bit at first, I thought I stepped on her. She's been overly chatty the past week, so I'm getting anxious.

 

[JenJenWv]

I got my first eggs this week and the chickens are 26 weeks old! I was about to give up on them!

 

[gckiddhouse]

Your hen is 5 months old. Seems like she should be on a layer feed.
Our hens are just over 5 months old, too. We have 10 hens of a variety of breeds. 3 are laying and the rest are not. We watched a nice video on Youtube that said their combs and waddles are good indicators of their maturity. Sure enough, our hens with the reddest and largest combs and waddles started laying first (with the exception of our Cal. White - where are her eggs!!

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It is really hard to wait, but watch carefully for the "looking" behaviors. They will start hunting for a place to lay and even practice their nesting behaviors (scratching in the laying boxes, going in and out of each one). When you see this, you will know it is close. Some of ours start to cackle. We have a roo, so I don't know if they do this without a roo.
We have a friend who said some of his hens did not lay until they were 8 months old. Just like children, each one is an individual. Soon you will have your little prize!!

Happy chicken farming!!

 

[gritsar]

Judging by how frustrated you are by 19 weekers not laying, you'd probably strangle my two 33 week old hens that haven't started laying yet huh?

So, they're late bloomers. They'll make up for lost time eventually.

 

[TT]

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I have 3 mutt hens I got from my parents - thinking they would lay before the chicks that I ordered - they are now about 7 mos old and though they are wallowing out a nest in the nest boxes I have yet to get an egg. At this rate my Brown Leghorns and Barred Rocks - which are about 21 weeks - will start to lay before they do. It's all good one day soon I will be overrun with eggs

 

[lobb40118]

my 3 are 28-29 weeks and not laying but i just got them so they are probably getting used to the move.