Norwegian Jaerhon

[becky3086]

Here are my new babies. I love their color but they both look the same to me.

 

[walsvikjen]

Hey. I'm From Norway, and I have searched around a bit. I found this site on english: http://www.nordgen.org/index.php/en/content/view/full/1855
But what they don't mention on this site, is that there are 3 different varieties: light, dark and grey. The grey color hasn't been approved yet, but we have many people here in Norway working on it

 

[becky3086]

Thank you for the link. That was a good read anyway. I did not know they were such good layers. I still would like to know if anyone knows whether I have hens or roosters. I would imagine I have the dark variety from the looks of the chicks.

 

[gootziecat]

I don't know if this will help or not. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=490027

 

[becky3086]

Oh thank you! Since both of mine have large white spots, I take it they are hens.

 

[Amyable]

Yes, those are the dark variety, and you have 2 girls. I'm so glad they hatched for you. Hopefully you'll get a little boy to go with them.

 

[happycountryhens]

It will be interesting to see if anyone near NY has hatching eggs next spring or birds for sale.

 

[becky3086]

My chicks are doing quite well and I am getting more eggs from Amyable. I am hoping to get at least a few more chicks. Can't wait to see how they look grown!

 

[discoveregg]

Here are two of my my chicks

...this picture was taken when they were 6 days old. The pullet is on the left, the roo is on the right. Pretty easy to distinguish between the two....
I have 3 extra cockerals from the same hatch if anybody's looking for some. Since they're such small birds, not sure quite yet what to do with the extra cockerals if no one wants them?
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.270613779635377.83042.100000602717918&l=2c65a5b7b7&type=1

 

[Kelsey2017]

Here are the pictures of my Jaerhons! I am super happy with them. I got them in March and they have been laying now for a couple weeks. The eggs are getting bigger and are truly the size of a normal store large egg and they are mostly a lovely pinkish color. I get 8 to 10 eggs a day (in the nest boxes) out of my 12 hens. They do not use the coop

for anything but laying eggs and grabbing a bite to eat. SO I do believe there must be eggs somewhere else on the property. They are great fun. I the one pic I took my smartest little hen is sitting on my shoulder. I just happened to have the camera with me the first time she did it. Bad pic of me, good pic of chicken. But now she does it every morning when I feed. She seems to know that she won't get trampled by the rest of the poultry and the sheep as they follow me out to the coop. So she just rides along, so fun because they are not very tame but I don't usually stress 'tameness'.