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yeah! Finally! First egg out of all hens smallest seabright in there :) in doing the egg dance so excited :)
 
Happy Chooks said:
Welcome! Likely the Australorp or the Barred rock.

Brahma's are not supposed to lay dark. They lay a light pinkish tan colored egg.

My hatchery Barred Rock has always laid jumbo eggs. My exhibition quality Barred Rock lays medium sized eggs, hopefully it will increase in size after her molt this year. Both lay pale brown eggs.

Black Copper Marans (from a breeder) are going to be your darkest eggs. Wynette sells great quality BCM's if you decide to go that route.

Welsummers lay very large eggs, and have a higher lay rate than the BCM's. Their eggs are a terra cotta (clay pot) color. Sometimes with speckles. Here are some of my darker eggs, though I have some hens that lay lighter. (working on that) These are pullet eggs.


My homemade BSL lays my largest egg out there. She is from my hatchery BR and my welsummer rooster. I wanted a daughter from my hatchery BR since she is a fantastic layer - she is 5 1/2 years old now, so I don't know how much longer she will be around. Here is her first egg, and yes, it really is that color.


My mutts are by far my best layers. My olive eggers lay consistently and their eggs are a nice size.
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On the Brahmas my expectations were not correct in terms of color, however, in terms of size I expected a bigger egg. Looks like I may have to try Welsummers if I need larger eggs. Whats the typical egg size and color for the Barnevelders?

I was also thinking of hatching eggs from my Red Star (I have a Cream Legbar Rooster which neighbors may have removed pretty soon) to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Possibly the chicks may be as good layers as the Red Star and may possibly have an Olive egg as well. However, who knows what the mutts will look like! Any ideas?
 
KrystalRose said:
This looks like a fun forum to join! My group is all 16 weeks old this Friday, I am hoping the shorter days doesn't delay them too bad. I have:

2 Black Australorp
4 Barred Rock
4 Delaware
4 Easter Eggers
4 Buff Orpington

Does anyone know which of these breeds tends to lay the earliest? Any guesses on the first to lay? Nobody is squatting or turning red in the face yet, although some are pinking up.
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I think each breed has its own starting range but within the breeds there are always excepts. These are my first chickens but our australorp laid first at 18 weeks, our NH was next at 22 weeks, EE at 24 and finally BR at 25 although I think she may have started on the later side as we had another BR who looked so ready at about 22 weeks and I am sure she would have laid real soon except she died. Good luck!
 
My two Cochin girls were born the last week in Feb and we had our first Egg yesterday afternoon. My Hubby calls it the $800 egg. Between cost of coop, organic feed, organic veggies etc. LOL. He actually may be close !
 
Peepers23 said:
My two Cochin girls were born the last week in Feb and we had our first Egg yesterday afternoon. My Hubby calls it the $800 egg. Between cost of coop, organic feed, organic veggies etc. LOL. He actually may be close !
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Prob very close! We are right there with you... Between brooder coop then big coop and feed totally understand :)!
 

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