What is the longest you have waited for eggs?

[anniemyth]

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Your solar light comes on at 3? How did you rig a timer to it? What kind/model did you use? I have been looking everywhere for one that doesn't use electricity.

 

[Omeletta]

Mine just started at 38 weeks! They are mille fleur banties, we thought they were aliens...(if truth be told, we still think so...

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side note...we added extra light, and 2 weeks later...voila!

Tanya

 

[suburbanhomesteader]

My Production Reds are 32 weeks old, and my EEs are 26 weeks old. Only my Barred Rock is laying, and she started at 20 weeks.

My EEs and my 3 other hens don't really get along; it's a case of self-imposed "Jim Crow" laws; always separating themselves, but still being given equal treatment by me. Even after 4 months, the EEs are still terrified of the other hens. I'm afraid to have the coop light come on, and keep the coop door closed while it is still 4am; what if some fighting breaks out? The coop is 24 sf for 6 hens (the chunnel is 500sf, and they have free run of that all day).

Any thoughts? Should I push the light just a little; say, about an hour to start with?

 

[anniemyth]

OMG, I got one today.
http://www.angieredweb.net/images/omg.jpg

 

[Cara]

My D'Uccles hatched on 4/17, so they must be around 35 weeks old, and still nothing from any of them. None of my birds are laying right now though, so I don't think they'll start laying until the spring.

 

[Kentucky~Momma]

I have buffs, ee, and dominiques, about 30+ of them total, and they are all six months old... no eggs yet

 

[pattycake]

Some breeds are good in winter, and some aren't. I went down the list at Feathersite and picked good winter layers, because in upstate NY we get SIX stinking MONTHS of winter!

 

[Wildsky]

My Mille Fleur D'Uccle's started around 22 weeks or so.... I dont know exactly when they were born. We are now getting one egg a day from the three hens.
(pretty good for being so cold, snow on the ground, no extra lighting or heat - they LOVE US)

 

[EggCentric]

9 months for my oldest Jersey Giant hen, BUT once she started laying, it was like "Monkey see-Monkey do", they all started laying, even the youngest one that hasn't even developed a comb or waddles yet.

Funny thing is that I thought they would all lay the same type (color) eggs, not so. The splash lay a typical brown egg, the Blues lay a little darker egg and the blacks lay a dark brown, speckled egg.

 

[kayri]

At 34 weeks my two buff orps. are starting to squat, but my barred rock is not even doing that. I hope the BOs will give me an egg for Christmas.