How Long Until Chickens Start Laying Eggs?

Brynn Mahnke
4 min readNov 4, 2021

Our girls are finally laying, here’s how long it took!

Photo by Jakub Kapusnak on Unsplash

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Let me just tell you, it was definitely the chicken. By a long shot.

We got our chicks on May 23 when they were just a few days old. We managed to keep most of them alive, and when they got to be about 18 weeks old I switched them to a layer…

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Brynn Mahnke

Freelance writer, distance runner, lifelong learner. Let’s chat! brynnmahnkewrites.com