Point of lay

[Brynnoelleee]

Hi everyone! Hoping someone can tell me if my pullets seem close to laying based on the color of their combs and wattles? They’re 17 weeks. I never knew how impatient I was until I started waiting for eggs… I feel like a kid waiting on Christmas!

 

[sourland]

Patience. My gut instinct is that you have several more weeks before first eggs. Your birds are not high production early layers. The good thing is that generally they have a longer productive life than those birds.

 

[Owen_Blandford]

pullets should start laying between 17-25 weeks

 

[Brynnoelleee]

Patience. My gut instinct is that you have several more weeks before first eggs. Your birds are not high production early layers. The good thing is that generally they have a longer productive life than those birds.

Well that is a bright side! Are you thinking another month or more?

 

[Brynnoelleee]

pullets should start laying between 17-25 weeks

Such a broad range for an inpatient person

 

[sourland]

pullets should start laying between 17-25 weeks

And perhaps even later for Easter Eggers.

 

[Owen_Blandford]

And perhaps even later for Easter Eggers.

defintaly true we got some easter eggers and it can be 30 weeks

 

[Owen_Blandford]

how old are they now

 

[Idaho Chicken Bungalow]

I did a fun math project with my class. I had the kiddos use one guess; I gave them choices of 5 days. I used the guesses to make a line plot. I had 7 pullets, so we did that many times. It made it fun for them and helped me with my patience. The last one we did was for my Favaucana Tess. We did it and I included that day. Some of the students chose that day. Sure, enough I went home, and she laid the egg.

 

[Brynnoelleee]

how old are they now

They’re 17 weeks now