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Polish are small chickens. Their eggs are barely bigger than bantam eggs, but they do lay a lot of them.
Mine usually start laying between 6-9 month of age, some people have had them go over a year, but I haven't seen that yet. Not sure where you are in MI, but we are in southern lower Michigan and it has just gotten warm in the last week- I would think your girl should start laying soon. Many if they are close to laying age when the cold starts in the fall will not lay until it warms up in the spring.Blackgoat how old is your girl? Mine is nine months old and I'm still waiting for an egg. I thought she laid one but it was one of my other pullets. I'm hoping it will be soon.
Polish are small chickens. Their eggs are barely bigger than bantam eggs, but they do lay a lot of them.
Polish come in both bantam size and large fowl, which LF are suppose to be minimum 4 lbs for pullets, 6 lbs for cockerels, 4 1/2 lbs for hens, and 6 1/2 lbs for roosters.
Tolbunts are normally large fowl, but there are a few breeders working on getting the variety bred down to a bantam size.
LF polish tend to run close to the minimum weights and undersize birds do occur, and bantams often have oversized birds that crop up as well.
I have never owned bantam polish, so I can not give a common egg size on those. We do have Tolbunt, White Crested, and some Golden for the Tolbunt outcrosse, we had Buff and Silver lace in the past. All of our polish have started off laying small pullet eggs, but increased to a large medium egg size within about a month of laying and most increased to a large egg size around a year of age.
Random question: Do tolbunts tend to be more susceptible to disease/weaker than other chickens? The chicks that I've had have always seemed more puny than other polish chicks.
I was wondering if anyone had any Frizzle polish eggs? i would so love to add a frizzle to my Polish! My tolbunts are coming along so nicely, I'm ready to "up the ante!" lol