Isa Browns Chicken Breeds

Are these the same as Cinnamon Queens?

It's good to know I'm not the only one with Isa Brown hens . I've had the same experience as you. They do not like to be hold and petted, but they are very friendly and curious.

I just purchased 3 Isa Browns and they are fitting in very well with the rest of my flock.

I bought what I was told were Speckled Sussex pullets. From what I see, they look like Isa Browns, or Comets or Sex Links. I don't know the difference. I would like to find a rooster for them. Is there a difference in the breeds I listed? I don't know much about these breeds, only that I love these chickens. They are so sweet.

Isa browns were one of my first chickens, mine love to be held and they really love there treats!! They'll follow me around when i come out to see them, they are good starter birds and they lay nice sized eggs that are brown.

These were the first I ever owned. Got them from Tractor Supply. Great and huge egg production for two years. Spotty on the third. Unfortunately all three that I had were lost to predation in their third year.

I just heard a neighbor was given 12. a friend of hers ordered 24 by mistake ( she was having some wine at the time ) So this is the 1st time I heard of the breed/ mix. Last yr was the 1st time I heard of Tetra tints.

I think they are bred according to the same principle as the Cinnamon Queens, that is a brown egg-laying sex-linked hybrid produced by crossing a RRR or New Hampshire Red rooster with various silver factor white, silver-laced, or Columbian pattern hens, resulting in cockerel chicks with white down and pullet chicks with rust-colored or buff down, which grow up into white or mostly white roosters and red or mostly red hens like those in the picture, depending on the exact cross used. I have three buff sex-link hens of my own and they look nearly identical to those in the picture, but they are not ISA browns. ISA brown is a proprietary name, the exact parent strains are likewise proprietary, and hatcheries that produce them must have a license to do so. Other hatcheries that produce other red or buff or brown sex links call them by various names such as Golden Comets, Cinnamon Queens, Red Stars. I like my three very much too and they are now going on 4 years old.

I've had Cinnamon Queens (Cackle Hatchery) and Golden Buffs (Meyer Matchery) before and they did real good for me.

I got 12 ISA Browns three years ago, after having terrible luck with Australorps. I am down to seven now. During the warm months (N/W Indiana) they lay like crazy, but as winter moves in they slow down. Two of the ladies lay one egg a day regardless of the weather. They go nuts for wild bid seed as a treat. They are smart as chickens go.

I’ve only got 3 birds, but one of them is Isa. Isa Brown.
(That’s the name we’ve given her, as well as it being the breed)

I’m new to keeping chickens, so didn’t (don’t) really know what to expect from my new friends. Although, I’m learning!

So, my Isa was the first of my three to lay, and she’s gifted me an egg every day since.
Gets along well with her coop-mates (Rhode Island, and Sussex Star), and appears to be top of the pecking order in my little flock.

Really friendly, and she’ll follow me around the garden, searching for food.

Sorry to hear that you had complications with your Isas becoming egg bound.
I hope I don’t experience the same problem.

I’ve read a few articles that suggest adding coconut oil to the birds’ water, maybe once or twice a week, can help to prevent a bird becoming egg-bound.
Like I’ve said already, I’m new to this, and don’t have any experience, but I’ve been adding the coconut oil as described, and it’s certainly not having any detrimental effect, so worth keeping it up, for me.