New to raising chickens

[Candym43]

My husband is building me a chicken coop so I can start raising laying chickens. What are the best chickens that will lay all year.

 

[ClucksAndCombs]

Welcome to BYC!

I prefer Easter Eggers for egg laying. They generally lay daily in the spring and summer and are very sweet birds. During the winter, my EEs (as well the rest of my hens) stop laying since the lack of light, but once there is more, they get up and running. They also give blue and green eggs, which is always very fun.

Good luck with your flock!

 

[50-45-1]

Do you want enough eggs for your self, or is this more small bussiness selling eggs?
Leghorns are great layers and eat less feed. They come in a variety of feathering colors but all lay a white egg.
Your dual purpose breeds are for egg laying and eating. Rocks, wandotts, astralorps....etc. brown eggs.
Easter eggers, olive eggers, araukanas all lay tinted eggs, green, blue, pink. MostLy green though.
Beautiful birds none exactly the same with a variety of colors can have ear tufts, beards, feathers on legs and small top hats.
Production hens are great layers for the first couple years but drop off after that. Large to jumbo brown eggs. They seam to be prone to egg issue death.
No hen lays concistantly year around, no matter where you are located. All hens take a break to molt (a yearly change of feathers)
The nutritonal value of your eggs will be determined by the health of your birds and what you feed them. The egg shell color has nothing to do with it, unless you eat the shells too....
Good luck and congratulations on you new coop!

 

[Acre4Me]

My husband is building me a chicken coop so I can start raising laying chickens. What are the best chickens that will lay all year.

Nice!

First, where are you located? No good getting a heavily feathered breed if you live in a very hot climate, for example.

How many chickens can you foresee having at any time (not just now, for your first order)?

Do you have electricity to your coop?

Are the chickens for eggs for your family or for selling?

Do you want some chicks to raise up or do you just want to get right to the egg laying part of things and buy started pullets?