Who else is waiting the impossible wait?

[featherz]

Got my first egg today (green!!) from my 25 week old EE! YAY.

I have it sitting next to the eggs from my older layers in another coop.

 

[CPW Chicks]

I am still waiting on one amerucana who is 8 months old, it is so sad waiting for an egg that never comes.

 

[vmdanielsen]

I have a spangle hamburg who is 9 months and hasn't laid a thing. My giant white same age stared laying the first of the year...good thing I'm not in it for the money!!

 

[HHandbasket]

I had a barred rock that was 35+ weeks old before she laid her first egg, so some chickens just take longer. It's like some kids hit puberty at 11 or 12, while others don't hit it until 13 or 14. They are all just as different as we are. It was REALLY frustrating, as she started laying about 3 months later than she should have (most barred rocks started at around 20-25 weeks, so she was 10-15 weeks behind). She never developed comb and wattles, either until the week she started laying! (She is the BR in my avatar--that picture was taken when she was 24-25 weeks).

Hang in there! The eggs will come.

 

[AinaWGSD]

Gah, mine are never going to lay! Ok, so I know that they'll lay when they're ready. And that it should be soon. But I've been patient for 24 weeks now and I'm starting to feel the impossibility of that wait. Two days in the past week, Merna has sat on the perch in the coop when I let the girls out and yelled at me, and today she was in the coop by herself when I went out at lunch to refresh their water (ie add hot water to unfreeze it). But nothing. Celeste and Gertrude are both really red in the face, but nothing from them either. A few weeks ago I went out to let them out in the dark and I got really excited because I thought maybe I had seen an egg under the roost. But it turned out to just be a really big, unusually round pile of urates. And yesterday the girls got to free range pretty much all day so I did a thorough search of the yard when I put them up before sundown. I got real excited because from across the yard I thought I saw a small white egg by the compost bin...but it turned out to just be an egg shell that had fallen out of the bin.

 

[Chickenkate17]

I'm waiting for my 3 girls....they're 20 weeks today!

I try to not be impatient, but, OF COURSE, look around in the nesting box every day, just hoping!

 

[black_fx_35]

I have seven girls who are 25 weeks and a day. Still waiting waiting waiting. Checking every day but nothing yet.

 

[macdoogle]

Ok, so I don't feel so bad. My EE born June 6th has been laying for a month. Pretty green eggs. My barred plymouth rock born july 6th has been laying for a couple of weeks. My wyndottes also born July 6th are holding out. Let's not mention Fin, my EE that I got April 1st looking full grown that has never layed. I'm glad to hear some hens can take longer to lay but I think Fin is a lost cause. All my laying girls like to use the same spot in the nesting box even though there is plenty of space. I've added a couple of small rocks and a golf ball to the other side of the nesting box to try to get them to spread out, and I get excited every time I look until I remember that they are not eggs.

 

[StarStruck203]

i have a long ways to go still... mine are only 8 & 9 weeks old..

i cant wait till they turn 17 weeks cause then im gonna be really ready for them to start.

i have 2 RIRs, 4 BRs (1 a Roo), 2 Buff Orps (1 Roo), and a Roo EE...

im so bummed about the EE being a Roo,

i was so ready for blue eggs ( saddly, my other EE which i think was a pullet died at like 1 week

)

 

[jenn-E]

I got my chickens end of May/first of June. One EE started laying last week, and has laid a nice green egg every day for the past 5 days. I got 1 brown egg yesterday- I think from one of the Speckled Sussex (she has been squatting for me). The others are still holding out. The Brahmas don't look quite mature yet, but the others look ready to lay. Maybe as the days start getting longer.