Warm boot recommendations please

[Mrs T]

My chicks are now 17 weeks old I have been mixing a bit of layers pellets with there growers pellets, but what age do they normally start laying, I understand from the Omlet brochure that they supply point of lays which are 18-20 weeks old. Reading the forum some people seem to get eggs the day after the chickens arrive. So I was wondering when to put my china egg in the eglu! I do ask the girls every day "when are you going to lay me an egg"!!

[Snowy]

Hi Mrs T. It does seem to be about 20 weeks that they start laying, although individual birds vary. Signs of pending laying are more reliable I think than age - ie comb and face becoming redder; chickens become more friendly; 'squatting' when approached.

 

Hope it's soon for you - that wait for the first egg is almost as bad as the wait for the eglu to arrive!

[geb0205]

It can be any time from now, depending upon how the chook is maturing. One of mine (I got them at 9 weeks) laid at about 30 weeks, the other laid at 8 months!!

[foxy]

Our chooks arrived on the 19th they where all 17 weeks and so far Ugly Betty is the only one to have laid 3 eggs after 2 weeks of having her so yours should be coming

pretty soon.

From reading on the forum quite a few people say that when they start doing (as my daughter says) eggy poos then they are getting ready to lay.

[starboyhull]

Ours where about 21 ish weeks I think when the first one laid but Betty has finally laid her first one and she must be about 23 -24 weeks now, so I think it just depends.......

 

I found telling them I wanted an egg helped, I dont think asking them works

[Martin B]

It can be as early as 17 weeks, but expect it be anything up to 26 weeks.