will they lay this year?

[steve25]

i have 3 pekin hens that i raised from babies since march and wondered if they will lay eggs this year?

 

[Born A Duck Lover]

Yes, they probably will if they haven't started already. Have you given them a layer ration or otherwise encouraged them to lay? I know my ducks have always started laying at around 20-24 weeks, but I know from reading other posts here that some ducks will start several weeks earlier.

 

[CricketYang]

One of my April hens just laid her first egg today! I'm sure they'll lay any day now.

 

[Hattiegun]

My call girls were born march 15 and last thurs one of them laid her first egg... and one a day since. The othe one hasn't yet tho..
I have a bowl of oyster shells (free Choice) and she chows them down... her eggs are perfect..

 

[Buttercup Chillin]

Don't give up, I am still waiting on my Muscovy Girls hatched in March. My Drake from that hatch is active and fertile so the girls will be a few weeks later. (2 hens sat 2 different nests at the same time, hatching days apart).

Last year their parents didn't start laying until September and they had a clutch of eggs the end of the year to hatch.