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To answer your question, my RIR girls were laying at around 24 weeks, and have been good solid layers giving me about 6 eggs per week each - that is, until 2 went broody!  (Yes, I know, how unlikely.....)

 

The feather loss in your chickens I suspect is due to other birds plucking them - probably out of boredom rather than anything else.

 

As far as age goes.....when I look at them I feel they are a little older than mine.  I don't know why I think that, or even how to tell the age of a chicken, but it's just a quality they have.  Mine are around 11 months old.  I'm guessing yours are maybe a year and a half?

 

Whatever happens with them down the track, I wish you all the best. Well done on offering them a better life.

 

Krista