Please tell me she's going to start laying soon!

[wordgirl]

She is a Gold Link, and she will be sixteen weeks tomorrow. Does she look like she might lay anytime soon?

 

[Scoop]

I think you might have a few weeks to wait yet but I'm not an expert on the sexlinks. She's so pretty!

 

[wordgirl]

Thanks, Scoop. She's one of the smaller of our pullets, but she has the biggest and reddest wattles. Hmm. I guess we'll see.

 

[chookchick]

Does she squat? Does she mess around in the nestboxes? I am sure she will be laying soon (**by Soon, I mean within the next couple of months

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[wordgirl]

I've been impatiently waiting for her to squat, but I don't think she does. Someone messes around in the nestboxes, but I don't know whether it's her, and maybe they all do, as the nestboxes are on the ground until they get used to them. Every morning I have to push bedding back into them, as they kick almost all of it out. No egg, though.

 

[mrsgibber]

I think you have a little while longer to go. My Goldens laid at 19 & 20 weeks. They each started the squat exactly one week before the first egg. I know how anxious you are feeling though....my kids and I always referred to the coop as the maternity ward and we were the anxious family waiting for the new baby!

 

[mrsgibber]

OH and by the way they were worth the wait. My two Comets are my most reliable, dependable layers. They regularly give me double yolkers too. Love those girls.

 

[animal nut]

I have 40 sexlinks. They group I purchased last fall laid at 16 or 17 weeks. They group I purchased this spring 19 week old and only a few are laying.

 

[fordmommy]

I bet you'll have to wait a few more weeks. That's okay though. Less change of egg bound and stuff. It really is a good thing. I hate the waiting too. I only have one laying right now.

 

[wjallen05]

She sure is a pretty girl! 16 weeks seems pretty young to start laying, but I'm no expert. My 27 week old RIR has had a comb/wattles bigger and redder than that for weeks now and hasn't laid yet. *shrug*