When do Easter Eggers start laying?

[dogscubed]

I've got two at the moment, one just started at 33 weeks and still waiting on the other!

 

[QuanahChick]

I have 8 16 week old Easter Egger hens...They were 16 weeks old on 06/15/2015...On 06/16/2015, I found my first egg. it was brown with pink spots and very small...I'm not sure which one laid it...

 

[Grimm]

I have 8 16 week old Easter Egger hens...They were 16 weeks old on 06/15/2015...On 06/16/2015, I found my first egg. it was brown with pink spots and very small...I'm not sure which one laid it...

Try petting them. The one that squats in submission is the layer. At least this is how I figured out my Mama (black star) was the one laying when I found my first egg.

My EE is 23 weeks. Her pea comb has been darkening and she is very interested in the nesting boxes. She even keeps my 2 laying hens company when they are laying their eggs. She has laid 2 eggs last week. One had a paper thin shell and the other was a no shell egg. No eggs since. I know they are her eggs as my other 2 are black and red stars and lay an egg every day. She is getting calcium and has since the group turned 18 weeks. I have watched her eat it.

I know not all chickens will lay consistently like my production birds but I thought since she is from the same hen as the red star she'd start before the 24 week mark. (I got a bunch of barn yard mutts from a local lady who told me I was getting Welsummers and Barnavelders. Yeah right!)

 

[603Elisha]

We have 9 EE that are 19 weeks. We were suppose to have 12. 3 were roo's. Waiting for our first egg! It's so hard to be patient!

 

[Bessetti]

I have two easter Eggers. They are both 20 weeks and 6 days old. I just got my first bright blue egg today!! I watched Maia lay it, if I hadnt I would have assumed it had been Snidely since her face is red and Maia's is not.

 

[tj74roberts]

Hello, I have 3 EE girls that are 30weeks. Only one lays an egg and it's green. Just wondering when the other two will start. They don;t even have any red on the combs yet.

 

[Chicken Strut]

Following. Have 2 EEs, 21 weeks old yesterday, that have been squatting for about a week. Both have bright red faces and combs.

 

[tj74roberts]

Following. Have 2 EEs, 21 weeks old yesterday, that have been squatting for about a week. Both have bright red faces and combs.

You should be getting an egg any day now, Whoo hoo!!!

 

[Chicken Strut]

You should be getting an egg any day now, Whoo hoo!!!

THANK YOU! Their flock mate, a Dominque, started laying for us on Sunday but I'm *so* curious what color eggs I'll get from the pretty EE girls.

 

[tj74roberts]

THANK YOU! Their flock mate, a Dominque, started laying for us on Sunday but I'm *so* curious what color eggs I'll get from the pretty EE girls.

I raised 4 of them and gave one to a friend and wouldn't you know it, the one I gave away lays beautiful blue eggs and the one that I have laying now lays green. I'm hoping for blue ones from one of my other two, but the green ones are a nice soothing sage green and they make my lil egg basket beautiful. Good luck to you.