grb944 Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Hello All I've had my Cube and my 6 POL chickens for 8 weeks now. 3 have full combs and wattles and are laying an egg a day But 3 have not developed at all..no wattles and no eggs The 3 layers are clearly the dominatent birds so I sometimes FR the smallers birds first to let them feed first, but that just annoys the layers. Maybe the place I brought the chocks from sold be very very young birds, that weren't really POL..but they looked the same size. The 3 undeveloped birds are hybrids..they look like 2x Sussex(white) and 1x Ranger(ginger) The 3 layers look like 2x Speckledy 1x Black Rock Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Your Sussex still looks very young. Guess you have a while to wait yet. When the comb and wattles start to develop and they start crouching you'll be away. When they are sold as POL I think it just means over 16-18 weeks but one of mine was 30 weeks before she laid. My hybrids started at 22 weekish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sezra Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 I had a similar problem with mine. Although they were all bought as POL, one was very developed and laid within a couple of weeks but my Bluebelle has only started laying recently, two months after we got them! Worth the wait though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grb944 Posted August 12, 2010 Author Share Posted August 12, 2010 Thanks for the reassurance Plum and Sezra I won't put them in the fan assited yet then !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
