Ask any PhD at any USDA affiliated university and they will tell you that Egg production is a highly inherited or inheritable trait. So if your pullet has a hatchery or production background she should begin laying at about 15 to 20 weeks of age.
So called chicken "Breeders" are not focused on the long haul and they could care less about the genes that they sell you. Breeders are only focused on your Do-Ray-Me and have no interest in maintaining their name or reputation. So if she has a "breeder" background consider yourself lucky if the pullet in question begins laying by 30 weeks.
If it makes a hoot to anyone this is the experience of an old commercial egg farmer going all the way back to the 1950s.
So called chicken "Breeders" are not focused on the long haul and they could care less about the genes that they sell you. Breeders are only focused on your Do-Ray-Me and have no interest in maintaining their name or reputation. So if she has a "breeder" background consider yourself lucky if the pullet in question begins laying by 30 weeks.
If it makes a hoot to anyone this is the experience of an old commercial egg farmer going all the way back to the 1950s.
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