Will pullets start laying or is it late in the season

[smfarman]

As far as I know, Wyandottes lay light brownish eggs.

Thank you, must be the leghorn then

 

[Kluk-Kluk]

must be the leghorn then

Yep, the leghorn! Congratulations!!

 

[smfarman]

Yep, the leghorn! Congratulations!!

Thank you, I am surprised that the youngest in this group started first. The White leghorn is 21 weeks old

 

[TwoShepherds]

Today I got my first egg, I am so eggcited
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It's the bottom one, the top one is a store bought egg.

congratulations!! That looks like a nice big one too. It is so much fun to open the nest boxes and find eggs! Today my grey and white EE laid her first blue-green egg, and I even caught her in the act so I knew who it was. Wish I had gotten chickens sooner!

 

[achiekitty]

Thanks for this thread! Most of my pullets are just over 20 weeks old and I was wondering the same thing. Wattles and combs are starting to brighten and they have been checking out the nesting boxes for at least a month. My cockerel of the same age has also started mating with them, but no squatting from them yet.

I wondered if they’d wait til spring but I live on the Central Coast of California so our winters are very mild (it freezes from time to time but doesn’t snow) and hoped that wouldn’t be a deterrent for them.

Both my girls started laying in January three years ago.
Grey on Jan 1st, Brownie a week later, and my friend’s pullets, the first one started laying last month, the other 2, just started this week. We’re both in northern California (Solano County)

Have hope, any day now...

 

[smfarman]

congratulations!! That looks like a nice big one too. It is so much fun to open the nest boxes and find eggs! Today my grey and white EE laid her first blue-green egg, and I even caught her in the act so I knew who it was. Wish I had gotten chickens sooner!

Thank you and congratulations to you as well

 

[smfarman]

Both my girls started laying in January three years ago.
Grey on Jan 1st, Brownie a week later, and my friend’s pullets, the first one started laying last month, the other 2, just started this week. We’re both in northern California (Solano County)

Have hope, any day now...

I do have hope now, thanks to all the community support and today is the first egg and it was in the nest box. Sometimes it's hard to have patience when your working hard to get things right and knowing that winter is approaching (shorter days).

 

[CalBickieMomma]

Great news!!!! Just this morning I went out to see my girls (and little roo and Guinea fowl) and I found a wee egglet in one of the nesting boxes! The first egg has been laid (probably by one of the Rhode Island Reds) and on Samhain, too!

 

[smfarman]

Great news!!!! Just this morning I went out to see my girls (and little roo and Guinea fowl) and I found a wee egglet in one of the nesting boxes! The first egg has been laid (probably by one of the Rhode Island Reds) and on Samhain, too!
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Congratulations and nice looking egg, too

 

[Thornpaw]

Duckfarmer1
For just a few hens you can use a five gallon bucket on its side on a small rack to elevate. Cut the removed top to about 2-3" and put the small piece back on to keep the eggs from rolling out. Put in some bedding of choice. Straw, shavings etc. I had 16 of these for several years. My hens loved them. They were easy to remove and clean. I finally got some roll away nests to replace them.