Breed of store bought hatching egg experiment.

[Anime2lover]

I have stor bought eggs that I checked for fertility. But I'm trying to find out what the breed possibilities are. They are from buckskin ranch and are pasture raised. I tried to look up what breeds that ranch has but couldn't figure anything out. But the eggs themselves are large and brown.


Does anyone know what breeds they have that lay large brown eggs?

 

[NatJ]

Could it be the farm talked about in this article?
https://sbj.net/stories/eggs-on-a-m...thically-produced-eggs-from-springfield,62874

The photos at the top of that article include Red Sexlink hens. Red Sexlinks are a general type. They are sold as Golden Comets, ISA Browns, and many other names. But they are all hybrid brown-egg layers. They tend to have red feathers with some white in their tails and other areas. They usually have a Rhode Island Red father, and often a Rhode Island White mother. Their brothers (males) would be mostly white, with some red leaking through in the shoulders and other areas.

If the farm has Red Sexlink hens, and is not trying to produce eggs for hatching, the most likely roosters would be mis-sexed ones of the same kind as the females. Considering that sexlinks are different colors, the males should be fairly obvious. I am a little puzzled why they would leave them in the flock (since roosters eat feed and do not lay eggs.) I would expect that using a flashlight to grab the roosters at night would be simple enough for them to do

 

[Anime2lover]

Could it be the farm talked about in this article?
https://sbj.net/stories/eggs-on-a-m...thically-produced-eggs-from-springfield,62874

The photos at the top of that article include Red Sexlink hens. Red Sexlinks are a general type. They are sold as Golden Comets, ISA Browns, and many other names. But they are all hybrid brown-egg layers. They tend to have red feathers with some white in their tails and other areas. They usually have a Rhode Island Red father, and often a Rhode Island White mother. Their brothers (males) would be mostly white, with some red leaking through in the shoulders and other areas.

If the farm has Red Sexlink hens, and is not trying to produce eggs for hatching, the most likely roosters would be mis-sexed ones of the same kind as the females. Considering that sexlinks are different colors, the males should be fairly obvious. I am a little puzzled why they would leave them in the flock (since roosters eat feed and do not lay eggs.) I would expect that using a flashlight to grab the roosters at night would be simple enough for them to do

Vital farms does indeed get some of their eggs from buckskin acres ranch. The ranch it's self may not be just producing eggs for egg production though.

Isa browns, or the ones listed above lay large brown eggs??

 

[WthrLady]

Agree, some kind of production red hen.
Bred as super layers, not for longevity.

 

[NatJ]

Vital farms does indeed get some of their eggs from buckskin acres ranch. The ranch it's self may not be just producing eggs for egg production though.

Isa browns, or the ones listed above lay large brown eggs??

Isa Browns lay brown eggs.
Golden Comets lay brown eggs.
Both of them are red sexlinks.
Red sexlinks in general lay brown eggs, and are sold under many different names.

(The sex-linkage can work in breeds that lay other colors of eggs, but all the common ones with that trait lay brown eggs.)

 

[Anime2lover]

Isa Browns lay brown eggs.
Golden Comets lay brown eggs.
Both of them are red sexlinks.
Red sexlinks in general lay brown eggs, and are sold under many different names.

(The sex-linkage can work in breeds that lay other colors of eggs, but all the common ones with that trait lay brown eggs.)

Agree, some kind of production red hen.
Bred as super layers, not for longevity.

Hmm didn't know that. I thought the egg color didn't matter for sexlinks.

I'll be able to tell for sure if that one fertile egg I found was a fluke or not when I candle in about five days.

I tried this before and got nothing. But decided to try again when I came across a whole carton of fertile store bought eggs that I had to use for breakfast. A whole carton of fertile white eggs that I had to use for food

 

[NatJ]

Hmm didn't know that. I thought the egg color didn't matter for sexlinks.

Technically, the linkage of color/sex has nothing to do with egg color.
But all the ones that are common DO lay brown eggs.
It's a matter of what people have chosen to produce, not what is genetically possible.

Places that produce white eggs typically use White Leghorns instead.

 

[Anime2lover]

Technically, the linkage of color/sex has nothing to do with egg color.
But all the ones that are common DO lay brown eggs.
It's a matter of what people have chosen to produce, not what is genetically possible.

Places that produce white eggs typically use White Leghorns instead.

I have heard that persons are a popular white egg layer. Also heard they have an attitude.

 

[NatJ]

I have heard that persons are a popular white egg layer. Also heard they have an attitude.

typo? I'm not familar with "persons" as a breed of chicken.

Vital farms does indeed get some of their eggs from buckskin acres ranch. The ranch it's self may not be just producing eggs for egg production though.

I just found this page as well:
https://vitalfarms.com/farm/buckskin-acres/
I see a bunch of red sexlinks there too.
(I didn't actually watch the video because my computer didn't want to play it, but the preview image had red sexlinks.)

 

[Anime2lover]

typo? I'm not familar with "persons" as a breed of chicken.




I just found this page as well:
https://vitalfarms.com/farm/buckskin-acres/
I see a bunch of red sexlinks there too.
(I didn't actually watch the video because my computer didn't want to play it, but the preview image had red sexlinks.)

It was supposed to say leghorns