when did your white leghorns start laying?

[txreddirtgirl]

I've read the articles, but I'm just curious at what age did YOUR white leghorns start laying?

 

[N&MSchroeder]

17 1/2 weeks. She laid her first egg late in the afternoon, skipped the next day, and hasn't missed a day since.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Eighteen weeks give or take a day.

 

[savingpurple]

15/16 weeks, and yes she has missed one day since. My other will be 18 weeks and has for almost a week sat in a nest box for 30 minutes each day, but nothing???

The younger one started first.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

I just got my first egg from my white leghorn today, at 21 weeks.

 

[txreddirtgirl]

so it seems like those of you in cooler climates have girls that are laying earlier than those of us in the hotter climates................I may be totally off base though.

 

[halfwaynowhere]

Quote:
I'm no expert, but I was talking to a local "chicken person" recently and mentioned that my girls hadn't started laying yet. She said its been hot, and they sometimes just don't feel like laying when its hot.

 

[mylegger]

15/16 weeks here too. She's only missed 1 day so far. Super Egg Layers!

 

[kefiren]

My white leghorns are 20.5 weeks and laid their first egg today. On one of the shortest days of the year (length of day 9 hours 6 minutes) on the cold MA/NH border! Coop lit by one 40 w bulb for daylight hours only (I switch it on when I let them out and off when I close them up). My first white egg after 7 years of blue and brown. So pretty.

Renee

 

[jengro65]

16 1/2 weeks for my girls