The anticipation is killing me! I can’t wait for the day when I walk out to visit the hens and there is a pile of beautiful brown eggs in the nest to greet me. It shouldn’t be long now!
All the sources say that hens will begin to lay eggs between 18 and 20 weeks of age. Some say that this may be later if hens reach this age while it is cold or they are molting.
The hens are 18 weeks old this week, just in time to greet the lengthening of the days on December 22nd. Is this the perfect set up for getting hens to lay eggs for Christmas? Well we think so!
While waiting for the ladies to start producing we made them some super cute Christmas stockings and purchased some nesting eggs to place in their stockings (and shortly after in their nests!). We found some super cheap nesting eggs at Hobby Lobby. The eggs are coated paper mache and were 35 cents each. At that price I won’t mind when they get all dirty!
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As the ladies head in for the night, Maggie stops to have a look at the stockings.
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