Yongest hen that you have seen lay the first egg?

[Chick_a_dee]

I feel your pain Pullet Pimp, my girls are just over 19 weeks now and not a single egg out of the 15 of them! I'm dying to have an egg from them eee!

It's 1 degree outside, with a bit of sun, and 4 or 5 inches of snow, the girls walk through the wind break flap on the pop door, loll about on the foundation (I gave them a ramp, but clearly jumping off the foundation is more fun LOL) gobbling up corn, and then dash back inside until it's locking up time around 6-7PM.

 

[wisdom_seeker]

Yesterday on Thanksgiving I got 10 eggs from this batch!

One thing that I thought of is that when I got this shipment of chicks I also had 12 Jumbo Cornish X with them. I think that the hens may have picked up some of the eating habbits of the meat birds. Maybe that explains a faster development than my previous batch of red sex links that started at 18 weeks?

 

[Cetawin]

I had a Golden Buff lay her first egg at 14 weeks and a couple of days.

 

[Barn Maid Ann]

My golden Comets (which are some sort of red sex link) were probalby around 15 weeks when they first started laying last year. We got them at 12 weeks, and they were laying in just a few weeks. We had just about an egg a day from each of them for 18 months straight. They are just now molting and production has fallen off. We are getting an egg every few days now.