BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Beer can]

Yeah I was a little worried when my brownleghorns first eggs were 86+gram double yolkers for a couple months, I always found chickens lay bigger eggs after their first moult and these were pullet eggs. They took about a month off and are now laying normal eggs everyday.
Could it be because those huge eggs were only coming every few days giving them more time to get big? We were also subzero temps when they were laying the huge eggs.
Here's what a couple of them looked like and the other eggs were large, it was like goose eggs!

 

[ronott1]

Yeah I was a little worried when my brownleghorns first eggs were 86+gram double yolkers for a couple months, I always found chickens lay bigger eggs after their first moult and these were pullet eggs. They took about a month off and are now laying normal eggs everyday.
Could it be because those huge eggs were only coming every few days giving them more time to get big? We were also subzero temps when they were laying the huge eggs.
Here's what a couple of them looked like and the other eggs were large, it was like goose eggs!

Double yolk eggs are an egg laying fault- there is something not working correctly and the egg gets two yolks. It is more common in pullets and often stops like your leghorns did. It does usually take two days for the process because two yolks are formed.

 

[Beer can]

Double yolk eggs are an egg laying fault- there is something not working correctly and the egg gets two yolks. It is more common in pullets and often stops like your leghorns did. It does usually take two days for the process because two yolks are formed.

Hmm, didn't know that. Makes sense though. I thought it was awesome at first, then I thought it would probably kill them Lol! Glad to see they stopped, AND lay everyday now.

Surprised to see a glpolish laying every day also, I didn't want to keep it but the kids made me. EErs doing good. The welsummer, last to lay, but did do good this awful winter we had, awesome spotted eggs, quit! Haven't got a egg from her in over a month!
White jersey giants and black and blue langshans should be here in less than a week ( If Iowa is still allowed to send chicks!), next year try my hand at capons.

 

[Beer can]

Conspiracy theory? More farms were hit in Iowa with AI. Big, biosecurity farms. Could it be a domestic terrorist? I find it hard to believe that we haven't saw more backyard, free ranging with the migratory birds, farms getting hit. Could little birds really sneak in to all these places?

 

[jbkirk]

Conspiracy theory? More farms were hit in Iowa with AI. Big, biosecurity farms. Could it be a domestic terrorist? I find it hard to believe that we haven't saw more backyard, free ranging with the migratory birds, farms getting hit. Could little birds really sneak in to all these places?

It COULD be that the farm chickens have no immunities so any little germ will kill them well but give a very small dose to a backyard chicken and it would recover from it.

 

[gjensen]

Hmm, didn't know that. Makes sense though. I thought it was awesome at first, then I thought it would probably kill them Lol! Glad to see they stopped, AND lay everyday now.

Surprised to see a glpolish laying every day also, I didn't want to keep it but the kids made me. EErs doing good. The welsummer, last to lay, but did do good this awful winter we had, awesome spotted eggs, quit! Haven't got a egg from her in over a month!
White jersey giants and black and blue langshans should be here in less than a week ( If Iowa is still allowed to send chicks!), next year try my hand at capons.

You might be ok in a week. I do suspect that Iowa will shut it down soon. Maybe not, but North Dakota has.

 

[DesertChic]

Conspiracy theory? More farms were hit in Iowa with AI. Big, biosecurity farms. Could it be a domestic terrorist? I find it hard to believe that we haven't saw more backyard, free ranging with the migratory birds, farms getting hit. Could little birds really sneak in to all these places?

It COULD be that the farm chickens have no immunities so any little germ will kill them well but give a very small dose to a backyard chicken and it would recover from it.

I was surprised to discover that the flu started in Canada. Sadly, in this day and age the conspiracy theory is just as plausible as @jbkirk 's theory of backyard chicken germ exposure = natural resistance. I was surprised to discover that the flu started in Canada. And equally as sad, we may never know the truth.

 

[ronott1]

I was surprised to discover that the flu started in Canada. Sadly, in this day and age the conspiracy theory is just as plausible as @jbkirk 's theory of backyard chicken germ exposure = natural resistance. I was surprised to discover that the flu started in Canada. And equally as sad, we may never know the truth.

The Avian flu started in China, migrated with wild birds to northern Europe and then came down through Canada.

It has been killing birds and people in China for more than 5 years now.

Geese and other wild birds have enough resistance to live long enough to spread it. It comes from them so if you have a back yard flock and do not have geese landing at your place chances of getting it are slim. They think that the virus blew in with dust at the commercial places in Montana. The same thing may have happened in Iowa.

The spread of the virus will stop when the migrations season ends. It will pick up again next Fall.

 

[gjensen]

SE Asia is the Avian Flu hub. Seeing how they farm the birds, it is little wonder why.

 

[DesertChic]

The Avian flu started in China, migrated with wild birds to northern Europe and then came down through Canada.

It has been killing birds and people in China for more than 5 years now.

Geese and other wild birds have enough resistance to live long enough to spread it. It comes from them so if you have a back yard flock and do not have geese landing at your place chances of getting it are slim. They think that the virus blew in with dust at the commercial places in Montana. The same thing may have happened in Iowa.

The spread of the virus will stop when the migrations season ends. It will pick up again next Fall.

That was a completely different strain of avian flu in China. That was H1N1, and this is H5N2 and (so far) is not lethal to humans. The CDC has yet to explain the appearance of this variant of the virus. The H5N1 strain made it across the border from Mexico last year and has killed several people in AZ alone, but doesn't seem to affect poultry.