when do Ameraucanas start laying?

[milleryardchx]

I have two BR that lay everyday rain or shine for almost two months now when i got them a 6 month old gals. My Ameraucana was 3 1/2 months when i got her June 1st .... no eggs yet from her

!!! any day now or is she broken haha I'm going crazy looking every day for a green/blue egg!

 

[Heidi]

I have an ameraucana and she's 26 weeks old and has yet to lay me an egg. I'm hoping someday soon. My EE's started laying at 22 weeks. Good luck.

 

[mcfarlandteresa]

Mine are 6 1/2 months old and just got my first ones this week. I was sooo tickled!

I was really beginning to wonder. Still have 5 more hens that should start laying any day now! Good luck.

 

[chickenlickin8]

I have one Amerucana and still waiting for my first egg from her. She is 4 1/2 months old now.

 

[flockoffour]

My ameraucanas are 27 weeks old and I haven't had an egg from either yet.

 

[Happy Chooks]

My pure ameraucana's started laying in the 27-31 week range. I currently have a lavender ameraucana that is 22 weeks and she's not anywhere close to laying.

 

[possum80]

mine started at 18 weeks i have heated chicken houses and feed them only laying mash allways works for me

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I'm assuming that you have an EE, not an Ameraucana, since you say you're looking for a blue or green egg and Ameraucanas lay blue eggs. I always keep at least 1/4 of my flock as EEs, and I don't expect my EEs to lay until 28-32 weeks. That means that your bird is on the very late end of normal right now. Add in the winter weather, and if you don't have supplemental lighting, they may not lay until spring. This happened to me once, but with dark brown Leghorns, not EEs.

In my experience, EEs are more varied in when they start to lay than other birds. I think it has to do with the fact that they are just more varied birds, since they are mutts. I'd expect more conformity from actual breeds of birds, like white Leghorns or Wyandottes, but even with them, they will vary by several weeks as to when they lay their first egg.

 

[Cindy in PA]

Mine have always started between 18-22 weeks. All four were laying by 20 weeks this time. Never had any breed not laying by 24 weeks in 20 years. All hatchery birds.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Mine have always started between 18-22 weeks. All four were laying by 20 weeks this time. Never had any breed not laying by 24 weeks in 20 years. All hatchery birds.

You've been very lucky. I once had a pair of hens that laid their first eggs at *50* weeks. And I'm positive that's how long it took, b/c they were the only white egg layers in the whole flock at the time.