4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[ruby]

or rather - lack of

 

we have had our ladies over a month now and still no egg.

 

I keep telling my husband to be patient - but I am about ready to wring his neck (which I suppose lets the chooks off ) if he asks one more time when I come in from the cold each morning.

 

are we going to get any soon - or should I give up and go and buy some!!

 

shaggy

scobby

 

 

 

or should I wrong the kids necks - who named the ladies after boys...

[welsh sarah]

hi

how old are they and what sort of chickens are they

sarah

[ruby]

we got them as a set for omlet, so as standard for the 'started pack'

 

we have a Miss peperpot and a ginger ranger

[bigmommasally]

Hi ruby

It will all depend on their age, whether they are pure bred or hybrid and of course this time of year everything slows down.

I have 3 hybrids that started laying between 22 & 25 weeks, my Orpington was 32 weeks before she laid her first egg and my Silkie is now 35 weeks and still hasn't laid!

 

Hope you get one soon

[welsh sarah]

are they crouching when you go near

sarah

[alih]

'fraid to say I got mine at the beginning of November too and they didn't lay until well into the new year - it's the down side of getting chooks in the winter months...

[KAZAROO]

Ive been waiting since August when my girls arrived at POL.... I am now- and for the last two weeks getting 5 eggs a day...Ive got eggs coming out my ears Be patient! You will be well rewarded!!!

[cordelia]

mine are...28 weeks old this week, oh and 27 weeks for Henrietta...still no eggs...One looks like she could lay soon...red wattles..and comb...the others dont...

 

I live in hope...but we've had ours since August...so I've had to stem the excitement for eggs a bit, and just love the birds.

 

good luck, hope yours lay soon (mine are pure breeds so will take longer usually anyway)

[SnowWhite]

Mine were sold as POL but frankly they are all at different ages, some have only just grown the first stump of a comb!

 

I have one girl laying and another I think may be close as her wattles are now fluorescing red at me from the end of the garden! Bo was laying an egg a day, but that's dropped to one every third day now that it is cold and dark.

 

We were talking about the general lack of eggs the other night. I think because I don't know the ages of the individual birds, I'm not fretting about a lack of eggs and setting expectations based on their age.

 

I think we'll all have to accept that there may not be any eggs until the spring