When will they start laying?

[boy and chick mama]

Our girls (3 Americuanas and 1 Buff Cochen) are 21 weeks old and haven't layed nary an egg yet. Should I be worried? Is there anything I can do (besides talk to them) to encourage the egg-laying behavior?

 

[Elite Silkies]

Different breeds start at different ages. Anywhere from 18-26 weeks.

 

[lbug]

I have a 22 week old Ameraucana that doesn't even have a red comb. She is not laying any eggs yet. My Rhode Island Red 22 weeks also, has been laying eggs since saturday everyday.
We just got to give them time.....

 

[Amethyste]

If you have patience the eggs will come!! I promise!!

All the birds are on their own timeclock... they dont look at the calendar to say "OHHHH I'm 21 weeks old today, I think I will lay an egg."

They will do it when Mother Nature says they are ready.

Waiting is the HARDEST part of being a chicken person I think . Waiting for eggs, waiting for hatches, waiting for the postman to bring you eggs/chicks, waiting for lazy birds to actually lay lol

It wil be ok

they will lay and you will be in Egg Heaven!

 

[phalenbeck]

Talk of freezer camp. My Polish waited 10 months---then I showed them the freezer. They are 'fair producers now.

 

[tallieb]

Go buy abunch of eggs from the store. I did this,within a couple hours I had an egg.

 

[SassyT]

My leghorns are going on 27 weeks and nothing. We are contributing to the heat and trying to be patient.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

My true Ameraucanas are 27weeks old and not one egg from them. Their comb is still very pink/pale...the rooster doesn't show them any attention and they stay away from him...

My EE are 23 weeks old and not egg from them, either...their combs are hardly noticable... they look very young and stay to themselves..

 

[charleneap1]

Hi All, I heard that over feeding your pullets will prolong the onset of egg laying. . . .any validity to this? and how much is too much when they act as though they have not eaten in a week each time we go to feed them (twice a day all the feeders will hold). Mine are only eleven weeks right now but the Cornish Cross have been doing "the squat" for more than a week already, they are huge!, actually twice the size of the Orp's of the same age.

 

[thewarriorchild]

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I was feeding blue seal and switched back to Dumor and they are not acting like that any more. I keep threating them to stop feeding them if they do not feed me