Best Brown Egg Layer

[Lensters]

Golden Comets, Red Stars and ISA Browns are just some of the names that hatcheries use to sell Red Sexlinks. A Red Sexlinik isn't a breed, nor even a given cross. It is any Red or Partridge rooster over a white or silver hen. If you search this site you will find many guesses as to what crosses the hatcheries are using but it is a pretty safe bet that the rooster was a "Production Red" which is another crossbred going back to New Hampshire Reds and Rhode Island Reds in most cases.

I should note, that these are probably the best brown egg layers. Very hardy, good production and they last pretty well too.

 

[daklander]

If you get RIRs from good laying stock rather than show type stock they will lay 250 to 300 eggs per year, and for more than just a year or two.

 

[crazyhen]

I too vote for Comets. Big eggs. I have two that lay daily and are gentle active birds that are not as big an eater as the Bo's that I have. Gloria Jean

 

[shelleyb1969]

I have a black Sex Link and a black Australorp...they're both BY FAR my best layers. In fact, I just sold the last of my hatchery Delaware hens just so I can keep my best egg layers over the winter. I'm also keeping my EEs...they're pretty consistent layers for me too...they average 5 eggs/week per hen, so not too bad.

 

[Cindy in PA]

My first chickens, 9 Barred Rocks layed 2500 eggs in their first year. I still have my egg count book from 1993-94 to remind me of this fact. I have my first 2 RIR this year and they have been disappointing at best. I guess it depends where they come from. You sure can't go wrong with BRs!

 

[Chicken Crazy12]

I have 12 Black Austalorps and they are great layers. They are also calm and quite birds. Love them!!!!!!

 

[aussieheelr]

My Minorca is very good. She lays 7 out of 8 days... then again the eggs are more of a cream not brown... they're supose to be white but that isn't exactly happening

 

[mamagardener]

I have 3 cinnamon queens, they lay everyday. They lay big eggs, sometimes too big to fit into a egg carton. We also get a lot of doubleyolkers. They are nice, calm chickens.
I am not sure where they came from, I bought them off of PineBurrowPeeps.

 

[the 412 chicks]

Red stars are excelent. and so are black stars

 

[catdaddyfro]

Production reds and G.S. links. I love e'm. They just lay and lay everyday. They are just like my dogs right there in the way all the time and so curious. But Ithink its called "spoiled".
There are a number of great layers out there. It all comes down to how they are managed.
my mom tells me all the time if I would've had kids they would be just as rotten. Good luck in choosing.