What is the EARLIEST that your girls started laying.

[Titania]

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Wow. That is a freaking awesome explanation. I knew some of this but not to the depth you just explained it. Thanks! Glad I stumbled on your thread, epeloquin

 

[juststeveb]

Got a half dozen pullets march 2nd and one of mine started laying on tuesday not that big of eggs though but cool nonetheless!

 

[sunny & the 5 egg layers]

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I got 6 pullets on March 3rd! But they haven't laid yet. What kind do you have?

 

[sharol]

My Golden Campine laid her first egg at 20 weeks. Following the next week were my GLW, Delaware, and EE, then within the next 3 weeks the other Delaware and the Welsummer at 26 weeks. My Partridge Rock hasn't laid an egg and she is 11 months old -- but she has reproductive problems discussed in the disease thread on a couple of occasions. She will probably never lay, but she is so sweet I can't put her down. I get 4-5 eggs most days. Occasionally I get 6. A week ago, I had 2 1-egg days.

Little gifts in the coop.

 

[epeloquin]

Thanks for all the posts. Really cool to see the variety in when they start laying.

wingsofglory, thanks for the explanation on sex links! Very informative.

 

[wrldlygrrl]

I just read about someone getting their first egg at 15 weeks!

 

[kimntep]

Mine are just over 4 mo and one laid sometime this week! I don't know who it was, but I think either one of the RSLs or a Wellie. We were out of town for the week and someone was tending to them for me daily, but they missed a small egg in the dirt under the littles' hutch, so I just found it today!

 

[classicsredone]

My Hamburgs are 21 weeks and 2 days. One has been squatting for a week and hanging out in the coop, the other is probably a few weeks off. The Barred Rocks are 20 weeks and 4 days, and while they're red, nobody is squatting yet. I think we're a few weeks off with them, too.

 

[MuskokaChick]

My Red Sex Links started laying at 16.5 weeks...