White Leghorns vs. RIR

[crazychics4me]

Anyone know the age difference for starting to lay?? They are all the same age but I have been getting eggs from ONLY the White Leghorns for over a week.

 

[annep]

Seems that mine were about 22 weeks when they did..Seemed like forever, and compared to our last set, that was late..

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Leghorns will typically begin laying earlier than the larger dual-purpose birds unless they're production bred. My WL started at eighteen weeks. My "heritage" dual-purpose birds may start as early as nineteen, but usually not until twenty weeks if spring hatched.