Chick Order Dreaming

[3KillerBs]

But getting 25 when I want 6-8 new pullets is chicken math at it's worst.

If we didn't have 2/3 of the country between us I'd tag onto your order for some of the Empordanesas.

 

[Mrs. K]

If we didn't have 2/3 of the country between us I'd tag onto your order for some of the Empordanesas.

So of course I have to look this chicken up and think hmmm?

 

[3KillerBs]

So of course I have to look this chicken up and think hmmm?

I like the idea of a dark-egg layer that, being from Spain, is well-adapted to my hot climate.

 

[Mrs. K]

A very nice addition. I am cheering you on, go get them. That's what we do here, enable people to order 25 to get 6... I think I could sell excess poults...right? Yeah, right! What a hobby.

Mrs K

 

[LadyAchee]

I plan on placing an ideal order soon for February 14th-16th. There are so many options.

 

[3KillerBs]

A very nice addition. I am cheering you on, go get them. That's what we do here, enable people to order 25 to get 6... I think I could sell excess poults...right? Yeah, right! What a hobby.

Mrs K

DH would kill me.

 

[3KillerBs]

Seriously, he understands that I'm going to buy an incubator and hatch from the flock and that I have to place an order for the reasons I explained in the original post. but going through over 50# of feed in a week while we wait for birds to sell is too much.

 

[3KillerBs]

I plan on placing an ideal order soon for February 14th-16th. There are so many options.

I have been so happy with my Ideal birds!

 

[LadyAchee]

I have been so happy with my Ideal birds!

I swore I wouldn't order through the mail but the variety us too tempting to deny. Lol.

 

[saysfaa]

...I am looking at getting a leghorn assortment. I want to improve my egg laying. ...

This will be some combination of the white leghorn, the brown leghorn, black leghorn, the buff, the red, barred, exchequer, and mille flour leghorn for $2.25 a piece, and that includes shipping. ...
Mrs K

I assumed all leghorns would improve egg laying. I've found differently in both research and my own. It seems pretty consistent in all hatchery descriptions and elsewhere that only the white leghorns (or essentially strains of white - like California Grays) will improve egg laying. Assuming you consider more and/or bigger eggs in the first couple of years to be an improvement.

My brown leghorns lay both smaller and fewer eggs than the australorps and started laying later. They also stopped laying due to natural winter light the winter before the australorps did.

I would get them again, I like them. But if your main goal is improved laying, you might look into this further.