Deathlayer The Westfalische Totleger, better known as the Deathlayer, is an very old and very rare German breed. While there is some debate on how they got the coolest name in the chicken world the most common explanation seems to be based on their egg production. They were said to lay an egg a day until the day they died.
I am on my first generation (lav x black and blue laced red) and it will likely be a few years before they are available. I do hope to be NPIP certified and have already made contact with my state agency who have been dragging their feet.. due to other priorities like New castle's disease and presumably now the whole Covid thing. Thank you for asking.. I'm super excited to be working on them, I hope they come out utilitarian and beautiful!
It's part of the agriculture laws in the US, set up to protect us from polonium typhoid. it has been largely successful program and is working to make adjustment to incorporate new understanding and include other disease and viruses of concern.. The following link is the site and the excerpt after was taken from it..
It isn't enforced by the United States Postal Service.. because they are JUST shippers and it isn't their job. That sort of stuff is enforced by the state and/or federal departments of agriculture.Always been this way I think, but its not enforcedive shipped eggs for years and never been or plan on being NPIP. Lots of good breeders arent NPIP and they still ship chicks and eggs
My guess is to increase egg production. A well bred choco orp (I don’t have one but just poking around the ‘net) should be big and fluffy. Hoover’s Australorps are nice but I wouldn’t call them particularly big and fluffy, but are good egg producers. (I think well bred australorps are supposed to be fairly large also?)
I do like these newfangled super egg layers.
