I got Brita, my EE, by accident from a farmer down the road with some other chickens, RIRs and Black Austolorps. The others have started to lay already and have been for a while (3 months), but I know Brita isn't laying because her eggs will be green/blue. She 6 months old. My question is when should I start getting eggs from her? She gets oyster shell and normal chicken feed along with scraps.
When....she is good and ready. After reading several posts on here about chicken laying..that is the best answer I have found.
it is my understanding that ee can sometimes lay brown eggs. maybe she is a brown egg laying ee. but those blue/green are nice to find. so you can still hope that she just hasn't laid. good luck
My EE are 9 to 10 months old. They won't even look at the nest box. I think the cold has something to do with it now. A lot of hens stop laying in the winter. Due to temp. and light changes. Yours will eventually lay. Out of about 60 hens, I am only getting a dozen a day. That has dropped from 3 to 4 dozen a month ago. I have several breeds in my flock. The white leghorns lay everyday. I hope this has helped. They will start laying when the weather changes. Layer feed is good if the shells aren't producing well. I don't feed mine laying mash. There egg shells are very hard. I feed mine game bird mix, it has a lot of different seed etc. in it, I also mix cracked corn and cleaned rolled oats in it. I think that is a really good diet. Good Luck. I have 2 that looks like your Brita. One follows me around at feeding time. I call her Gracie. Yours will lay in time. DeeJay
She looks a lot like our EE Lucy. Lucy has been playing house in the nest boxes the last few days, but as far as I can tell nothing yet. She's 25 weeks. I'm hoping she'll lay soon because the wait is driving me nuts!! Sonja
When she wants to. She's a hen and she will lay when she's good and ready. Since EEs are mutts, their qualities vary extremely. Our EEs didn't lay until about 24 weeks, but of course that doesn't mean anything to you. Three out of four of ours lay blue/green eggs, and the other lays cream. (that's our less intellegent one.) Do you know how old this chicken is? That might help determine. Also, extreme stress, like being moved, will halt laying for a while (I like to think of it as them going on strike). Give her time, switch to layer feed, and feed oyster shells free-choice. Keep us updated!
I have EE's too, with the cold moving in they completely stopped laying at all. Then I added a second heat lamp to the coop and they started laying again. They both started laying at around 6 months of age. I say give her some time..with the weather changing and her being somewhat new to the flock, she may just need to settle in before she starts laying.
