What is the oldest start to egg laying you have encountered?

Pullets that mature in the fall can take a while to start laying. It's actually pretty common for pullets that mature at this time of year to not lay until well after 6 months of age. Even in the middle of summer, Easter Eggers can be a bit unpredictable. One of mine started laying regularly at 22 weeks, another didn't lay consistently until after she was about 8 months old.

 

Due to a horrible placement of coop (east facing dark shaded from morning light by woods) & wrong time of year to buy chicks for that setup (they matured right as daylight went way down) I've got 3 out of 4 32 weekers who just started this week, one has yet to.
Breeds laying at 32 weeks, easter eggers (2), and a ameber sexlink, breed yet to lay golden laced wyandotte.
Those are my only birds that have matured so late, and I count it up to a multitude of human error. The previous owners of our property couldn't have chosen a darker spot on the 4 acres to build a coop. Very silly.
Good luck with your girls! One of my newly laying EE has laid a beautiful light green egg every day for her first 5 days of laying! Hope yours does as well!

 

I'm currently having the longest wait ever. Eight pullets at 28.5 weeks and counting. Three of them are checking out the coop/nests every day for past three days so should be soon.

I'm glad I recounted out the weeks. Was thinking I was at 30.5 and getting depressed. Feeling better now.

 

Most of the EE hens I hatched out on the week of Halloween last year didn't start laying until mid July this year... That was over 36+ weeks of wait for most of them...

 

I have 4 hens in total. The 2 mixed breeds started laying on the same day at 29 weeks 3 days back in August. I have 2 brown leghorns and one started laying 3 days ago at 33 weeks 6 days and the other hasn't started laying yet at 34 weeks and 2 days.

 

I'm so happy that I'm not the only one! This post made me feel better. All of my pullets were hatched may-June (so they are 23-27 weeks) and NO eggs yet! They boys are starting to really want to mate the girls but the girls are not having it. I bought 2 hens over a year old so that hopefully the boys would mate them and leave the pullets be. I can't wait until all of my females start laying!

 

I am happy to say that my little Rosie did lay her first egg this morning at 34 weeks 3 days old!!! Now all 4 are laying! I wanted to post the age of my girls to give hope to those who are still waiting on the first eggs......for me 18 -20 weeks old was a LONG time ago and I had almost given up on them!! I guess they lay whenever they are ready no matter how anxious we are for them to hurry up. I do love my girls and love seeing the eggs in the nesting box. Yes, I have more than one box but all 4 now use the same one.

 

Congratulations!! That's so exciting!! Guess I better just be patient then! Can I ask, how'd you get them to use the nest boxes? Was it easy?