How long do hybrids live for?

[IloveChickens3000]

Thank you so much for helping me out. You cleared it all out to me that's the answer I was really looking for. I got my chickens from tractor supply its was the brown egg production pack. I had first ordered 10 chicks but unfortunately 7 of them died and 3 lived that's where the rooster is from. They gave me a rooster accidently. So I called tractor supply company and they gave me These as a refund. That's the refund pack where I got all the cinnamon queens from. It is Hoover's Hatchery btw.

 

[rosemarythyme]

do they need protein even after they start laying eggs? Egg laying hens need calcium more, right? Also, I have a heat lamp but do they still need it after when all their feathers are out?

They still need some protein, 16% is standard but many people up it a bit more, as low protein can cause issues like feather picking.

No they don't need heat once they're feathered, unless you're living in an extreme arctic type climate.

 

[Mrs. K]

I got my chicks from hoover this spring, and I am very happy with them. Very healthy and growing.

I think 3 years is a reasonable time or an average life span of a chicken at least for me. Some do live longer, but 5 is as old as I have ever gotten. I try and keep a flock, birds come into it, and birds go out. It is disappointing when you loose birds, but as my granddaughter says, "Dang it, but now we can get chicks."

I hope you enjoy this hobby for years to come.

Mrs K

 

[IloveChickens3000]

Thank you so much for helping!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Hoover is one hatchery that uses a RIR rooster over a Silver Laced Wyandotte to make their Cinnamon Queens. My memory did sort of work after all. Cackle uses Rhode Island Red roosters over Rhode Island White hens to make theirs. Just a cute marketing name and not the commercial production hybrids.

 

[altballard]

Hoover is one hatchery that uses a RIR rooster over a Silver Laced Wyandotte to make their Cinnamon Queens. My memory did sort of work after all. Cackle uses Rhode Island Red roosters over Rhode Island White hens to make theirs. Just a cute marketing name and not the commercial production hybrids.

Hoover has Production Rhode Island Reds life span 5-7 years. I have their Cinnamon Queen chickens and Feb. 27th 2025 they will be 2 years old. In my research; after the fact because Our girls were not what we ordered originally; life expectance is listed 4 to 7 years. I'm assuming its because of the Production Reds having a shorter life span than the Silver Laced Wyandotes. Egg production is slowing some already. They started laying on the regular August 2023 and we were getting 8-9 eggs a day right up till October 1st 2023 than the cold started coming in and 1 HAD to hatch eggs October 1st. This year we've only had 10 days were we got 9 eggs. We've been averaging 5 to 6 eggs a day this year. They really did not stop through the winter (we're in SC) and we did NOT add light to the coop. I will say after the 1 year mark of lay there are more blood spots inside the eggs now from blood vessels breaking off during the yoke process which makes selling eggs harder as I have fewer clean eggs. I'm documenting things as I think of them, like 1 girl is a Broody momma so I'm hopeful she has a longer life because she is a very good momma. 1 girl is a light weight but is an egg laying machine SO, I will be sad when she goes but I don't hold hopes for her having a long life. The other 7 are somewhere in-between.