Lohman brown + Light sussex cross

[VanUnamed]

Hello,
I was wondering something. As I cannot keep too many breeders hens, I do have 5 lohman brown (they are an egg production breed, Cross with New Hampshire reds and other brown egg laying breeds), they are very small, so I didn't plan to have them be bred to produce meat chickens, but, I don't know how much the size of the girl means, as I have a 5lb hen that her chicks grown to be 15lb roosters. I wanted to know if any of you have experience with what comes out of smaller hens. I do have both a large rooster and a Light Sussex rooster (I think it'll be more suitable as it's lighter in weight)
Thanks in advance

 

[VanUnamed]

Oh, i read on the forum they would yield something close to production reds.is that true?

 

[nicalandia]

Lhoman Brown are about the most prolific brown egg layers in the world(along with Isa and Hyline browns), they are sex linked cross from a RIR egg production type rooster sire line and a White Rock egg production type dame line, if properly reared as pullet and with proper feeding they will lay about 300+ eggs about in a year's production time(staring from the 20 week old first egg). If you plan on producing meat out of your birds, these are not the birds to keep

 

[Erba]

I would definitely go with the light Sussex rooster, they are better for meat production.