Will these girls ever lay? Update: Green Egg and Pippa layed too!

[SeaChick]

Aw, Zela looks just like our Olympia did at that age!!! She started laying at 25 weeks. I have to say that all our girls had bigger/redder combs & wattles than your pics when they started laying.

Hope you get an egg soon!

Stacey & Olivia

 

[s6bee]

My girls just turned 23 weeks and I still don't have an egg from any of my hens. One is a Deleware and she has waddles a lot bigger and redder than those in the pictures. We did just recently add a light to the inside of the coop giving them the daylight they need. If that was the missing link, how long till I should see something?

Stephanie

 

[SeaChick]

I am not sure, but I am not surprised you haven't seen any eggs yet given their age and the season.

Our girls were mostly about 23-25 weeks when they started (the sex link started earlier) , and that was back in Oct/Nov. We started the supplemental light then.

I'm new to all this but I'd imagine you won't see immediate results if their bodies are already "slowed down" by the short days. Then again, I also understand that for pullets their first eyar, the daylight thing is less of an issue than it is for second-year hens.

My guess is that you'll get an egg before Christmas. Hang in there!!!

 

[karmical]

I just got my first egg today! From my Australorp who's 25 weeks. A few weeks ago I THOUGHT she had started squatting, but then about a week ago she REALLY started squatting...like someone else said earlier in the thread, they really sort of throw themselves down to the ground and flatten out their back with their wings sort of curving up and around their back. She doesn't really have much in the way of comb and wattles (not much more than your Zela) so I'm wondering how much of an indicator that really is...my other Autralorp's are MUCH bigger and she's not even squatting yet. My BR started squatting hard a few days ago...if she lays in the next week I'm gonna start putting money on the squat!

You have BEAUTIFUL Delawares...such pretty faces and gentle eyes...been thinking about adding a few to my flock next year...

 

[Catalina]

Congrats on your egg! Yay!

I'm still waiting........

 

[anniemyth]

Iocaste, one of my Jersey's just laid her first egg today and I never did get a squat.. I kept waiting but nuthin. My rooster has been all over her for about a month and her comb got red a long time ago.

 

[Catalina]

Still waiting......Honey's comb is the largest/reddest, but it looks like she's stopped or at least slowed down maturing.

Maybe I'll see an egg in 2008.....

Lazy Spoiled Chicken Babies!

 

[karmical]

Hang in there Catalina!

How many weeks are they now?

 

[Catalina]

21 1/2 weeks
or 149 days, 7 hours, 39 minutes, 15 seconds. J/K

I'm not obsessively keeping track or anything!

 

[LoneCowboy]

Oh, be patient. I have had 2 girls prolapse you don't want that. Let them mature as they will. But I know it's really hard to wait. I only had to wait 18 weeks, but that was the longest darn 18 weeks I've ever spent