Can mutts be good egg layers?

[Lee]

So, tell me, Pilgrim, what's a half egg look like?

Kinda like when I was in FFA and my Vo-Ag project were chickens and hogs and my sows avaraged 9.5 pigs a litter.

 

[horsejody]

Leah-yes I know I'm crazy :

This is really my son's project...selling eggs to save for a dirt bike. I'm just the facilitator

Sure, your son is the one addicted to chickens and hatching, not you.

I believe that (NOT!!!)​

 

[Sunny Side Up]

Who lays the half egg?

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I have 5 EEs, and I get 5 blue and green eggs 5-6 days a week, with 4 blues and greens the other 1-2 days. They lay much better than my Speckled Sussex--I also have 5 SS, and rarely get more than 3 cream-colored eggs a day. The rest of the hens all lay brown eggs, so I have no idea how many each hen is laying. 28 hens in all. The highest number of eggs I've gotten in a day is 25.

So, as far as I can tell, my EE mutts are the best layers in the flock.

 

[LynneP]

That half egg? Why it's a big girl named Tibet.

More like egg and a half...she and Golda lay HUMUNGOS ( that's two sizes over a jumbo)...

 

[Lee]

Quote:
HUMUNGOS.....sure, I knew that!

 

[cmom]

It depends on the breeds as some are better layers than others.

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

Actually my ee's are good layers but they are nervous...flighty...afraid of people. Hard to check a bird for bugs if you have to go 30 feet into a tree to get it.

 

[FoxTea]

I got some chickens from the swapmeet. Hell if I no what they are. They dont lay good. Some do some dont. I met some folks at a convention few years back. Sorry to here Gene Craft passed.