"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[campingshaws]

Not set on hatchery or private breeder. I've owned from both. I was just saying that I had to agree that my EE from cackle have been my best birds. AND they have been way hardier than any other single bird I've got. My question is solely, who has been your best year round layer that was docile and where did you get them. I only ask where they came from bc egg laying and temperanebt can vary between lines.

I haven’t had any birds that laid tear round except some ex-bat hens I picked up at an auction. They were super sweet to me, loved to be held and cuddled. But they ate nonstop and beat up the other birds.

 

[campingshaws]

A pic of the chaos crew. Goatlings are 6wks old! Ducks and most chickens (except Isabella leghorn, splash cochin, and hona cock) hatched mid-February.

 

[sealer39]

Ya’ll are a bad, bad influence! I just went to my local feed store to see if they could order a minimal amount of White Leghorns, I only need to add about four WL hens to my flock. They could, but I walked out with three more Ameraucanas (probably EEs)!


I really need to be banned from feed stores. I’ll post a pic after I get off work. I got three different colored chicks.

 

[campingshaws]

Ya’ll are a bad, bad influence! I just went to my local feed store to see if they could order a minimal amount of White Leghorns, I only need to add about four WL hens to my flock. They could, but I walked out with three more Ameraucanas (probably EEs)!


I really need to be banned from feed stores. I’ll post a pic after I get off work. I got three different colored chicks.

My feedstore chicks.

 

[jwyles]

A pic of the chaos crew. Goatlings are 6wks old! Ducks and most chickens (except Isabella leghorn, splash cochin, and hona cock) hatched mid-February.

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And where or where did you find Isabella leghorns?

 

[campingshaws]

And where or where did you find Isabella leghorns?

They were castoffs from a breeding project byc member @ChicKat was working on. She gave me a gorgeous roo and several nice hens, with two being Isabella leghorns. I have one hen and one offspring left from her. I met her halfway in Texas.

 

[jwyles]

They were castoffs from a breeding project byc member @ChicKat was working on. She gave me a gorgeous roo and several nice hens, with two being Isabella leghorns. I have one hen and one offspring left from her. I met her halfway in Texas.

Wow! Lucky you. Do they lay as well as most leghorns?

 

[campingshaws]

Wow! Lucky you. Do they lay as well as most leghorns?

I haven’t had others to compare. They give nice big off-white eggs pretty often. And these haven’t been broody. I don’t keep good track of who is laying how often.

 

[mixedUPturk]

@mixedUPturk i know Ursuline mentioned your wyandottes. I'll have to add them to my shortlist. What varieties do you breed?

I breed the blue laced red and i have too many pics to post here

but my gallery is open to the public so you could click my name and then my gallery. Heres one of them

 

[jwyles]

I breed the blue laced red and i have too many pics to post here View attachment 1882899 but my gallery is open to the public so you could click my name and then my gallery. Heres one of them

Wow! What a big handsome fellow.