These beauties aren't laying!!!

mlploeger

Chirping
7 Years
Feb 20, 2017
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See these two beautiful black Australorp girlies of ours?! They are both 6 months old and still NO eggs What's the deal? Does this breed tend to lay on the later side or do we have freeloaders on our hands?
 

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I don't think that 24 weeks is out of line for this breed. The hen in the 'solo' picture and to the left in the second picture is going to be laying very soon.

Stick with a balanced layer ration for their feed.
 
make sure you nesting boxes are super cozy
Thank you! Okay so we have one big nesting box that our leghorn and red star barnyard mix have been laying in pretty steadily for about a month now. They are the two on the top of the pecking order. Is it possible that the black ones don't want to go into their area? Are they territorial? Anyways I added a new cozy little box just for those two in the coop a couple of days ago... fingers crossed!
 
I don't think that 24 weeks is out of line for this breed. The hen in the 'solo' picture and to the left in the second picture is going to be laying very soon.

Stick with a balanced layer ration for their feed.
Thank you this is encouraging! I will look into the feed
 
Sounds as if your birds are right on schedule. Leghorns and Sex links generally start laying as much as 4 weeks earlier. It's a good idea to have multiple nest boxes, but even then hens may compete for the one 'favorite' nest.
 

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