What is the youngest you have had a pullet

[tazcat70]

lay their first egg? Is it completely unheard of for a 13+ week old to lay an egg? I don't know for sure or anything because I have 4 bantams. But I have owned these 4 bantam girls for over a year and this little egg did not look like theirs. The pullets are standard sized.

 

[redoak]

18 weeks 4 days for a standard buff orpington hen. Probably pretty rare but I'm sure it happens sometimes at 13 weeks old.

 

[Farmer Kitty]

15 weeks for Black and Brown sex links.
15 weeks for their mutt off spring.

 

[crazyhen]

Wow! Mine are 14 weeks old now Bo's. They are not ready to lay yet I am sure. Their combs are not red yet. Maybe soon. What a wonderful supprise you all had. jean

 

[Chickenaddict]

16 weeks for my serama pullets and 14 weeks for a few of my cochins other cochins were 5-6 months old before they started laying

 

[Laskaland]

17 1/2 weeks. White Rocks from Murray McMurray. They are so pretty! If you looked at them, no way you would think hatchery. Very impressed with their health, temperment and looks!

 

[Shared Acres]

I am interested in this as well. One of my 12 week old Showgirls took quite an interest in a nest box today. She was rooting around in it and I later saw little dips in it like someone had made a nest and noone typically goes into that box. Someone had also kicked out all the bedding yesterday in that box and I had to fill it back up.

And hubby SWEARS he heard her or her litter mates making very adult like sounds, similiar to what you hear when they lay an egg.

 

[Teresaann24]

My girls were 28 weeks before they laid their first eggs. Then again they are silkies..

 

[mjdtexan]

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That would be so cool ifin mine followed your sexlinks example.

 

[Akane]

I found a blue egg last month and my EEs couldn't have been more than 16weeks. A month later I found 2 blue eggs today. Other than that my japs all started laying at around 20weeks and my 4month old mutts haven't laid yet.