When will my rhode island reds start laying?

[ZombieChickens]

If you don't buy the oyster shell, crush up the shells to the eggs you are using now. Throw them in whenever you have them.....

 

[catdaddy66]

I also had eggs at around 20 weeks from my three RIR's. I finally have 12 girls laying for the first time today! It has been 26 weeks from the time they were purchased at 1 week old. You will see them soon enough and I know you will be pleased!

 

[HHandbasket]

I see from the messages on this thread that it varies. My RIR is 28 weeks & doesn't even have a comb/wattles yet, while others have posted theirs lay as early as 20 weeks! So I guess the easy answer is... anytime between now and next June??? LOL!

 

[Tomfieldenloveshichickens]

Do they take longer to lay because it's winter and some people have told me that they might not lay at all.

 

[AllAlaskan]

I know the feeling. My mom baught her RIR and Golden comets same day I got my 3 RIR and 2 GC and her birds have been laying now for weeks where only one of my RIR is just now starting to lay along with a Wyndotte that I picked up (shes almost 2 now) about a month and a half ago and has been laying now for 2 weeks. I walk out there and I have 12 hens and only 1 lays daily and the other lays here and there so I know the feeling. Meen while my moms are almost all laying and she has 9 birds total. It is frustrating.

 

[7L Farm]

Got my first egg from my RIR'S At 25 weeks.

 

[Tdub4chiks]

My girls are between 21/22 wks old now. No eggs yet. I listen in on them with the bird monitor, and think I hear the egg song, but nothing yet.

 

[forstadt]

My RIR is 24 weeks old, and no sign of laying yet. One of my Leghorns only just started laying at 27 weeks; she gave me two eggs in three days, then nothing for the past week. Patience is the key.

 

[Tomfieldenloveshichickens]

I brought some oyster shells and I give them layers pellets. When I change their straw they rush in and stay there for a hour. Some of them sit down. I think that they are about to lay but then they get up and rush out.

 

[7L Farm]

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You will have fresh eggs shortly.