Yay! Got first egg early!!

[aggiemae]

Well I've got five mature hens that I moved to a new coop and they haven't laid an egg in ten days!!!! New young rooster in with them. That may be the problem....... Twiddling my thumbs.... Ain't buy grocery sto eggs!! LOL

Chickens often stop laying in response to changes. Our existing flock stopped laying for about two weeks after we added the 2013 pullets to the coop and didn't get back to normal for a month.

A new coop and a new roo are a lot for their tiny brains to process but the bigger issue is more likely the coop that the roo.

As stress effect more then just egg laying add some protein to their diet and some liquid vitamins ( I use the kind for human babies) to their water.

 

[Kelsie2290]

I am new to this site but my pullets or should i say one of my pullets started laying last week. they are every other day almost and on the small side. i was curious as if this is normal and are they okay to eat? i think they are a few weeks early. i wasnt expecting eggs until towards the end of august.

A lot of pullets start out laying very small eggs "peewee" size on the charts, they are perfectly normal eggs that are good too eat, just small. They don't all start as big as the one the OP had. Sometimes they will lay really small eggs that do not have a normal yolk, people call them wind eggs or fart eggs, don't see any reason you couldn't eat those, but they tend to be really tiny. Most pullets seem to start laying eggs around 18-22 weeks, but I've had some early ones at 15-16 weeks, and have heard of even earlier. Some breeds just start earlier than others and some individual chickens just start earlier. Diet, time of year, etc will all influence it to some degree, but some variation between birds is normal.