When type of chicken starts laying?

[Todd7273]

From experience when have brown leghorns started laying. I have 6 brown leghorn hens.

 

[iwiw60]

From experience when have brown leghorns started laying. I have 6 brown leghorn hens.

That depends...how old are your hens?

 

[Todd7273]

Right now there only ten weeks. I know that is too young. I just wanted to see from experience when peoples brown leghorns have started laying.

 

[iwiw60]

Right now there only ten weeks. I know that is too young. I just wanted to see from experience when peoples brown leghorns have started laying.

Most chickens begin laying around 16-18 weeks...but then again you never know. A hen might surprise you sooner than that, and then there's the "I can't get there from here!" hen that just can't seem to make up her mind!!