Norwegian Jaerhon

[Roosterfry]

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Thank you for the crowing details! I'm looking forward to hearing them crow. I have three roosters total. And the youngest one crowed first after hearing the power drill but he is the king of his little coop lol... Maybe he feels more comfortable because he has no competition. My other coop has two roosters and 7 jaer hens plus a white leghorn hen.


I'm planning on hatching a few jaerXwhite leghorns this year to see what happens. I have to find out what this cross is all about. In Norway they still make that cross for commercial egg production. I'm pretty certain no commercial industries in the U.S. have tried this one yet! Ha who knows maybe in 5 years we'll all be eating jaer X white leghorn eggs!

 

[Jake Levi]

I think that in 5 years the only Jaer eggs eaten will be from fanciers flocks or buying from them, present egg proeuction is from high high prodeuction strains that are at best only percentages of leghorn.

Myself I am far more interested in seeing what kind of egg production can be had from a purebred flock. The hiliner flocks are way ahead of what small flocks will come near, factory birds in miserable egg factories.

 

[Roosterfry]

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I googled Hy-Line International and your right sounds like they have commercial layers down to an art.. But i believe It's still in the realm of possibilities Jaer's could make it into commercial breeding. It is interesting what Norwegians are doing with them when crossing them to Leghorns. I'm planning on trying it for fun, it won't be hard to keep a white egg layer like my white leghorn hen seperate from my jaers because it will be easy for me to keep them separate by differences in egg color(white and tinted.) I plan on letting an experienced friend of mine use the hybrids for his small commercial egg production farm.

I too am interested in how may eggs I can pamper my Jaers into laying. I'm planning on counting their eggs for a calendar year from the time they start laying to the same date the next year then average it from the amount of hens I have in the pen. I'm sure there's probably a better way but that's the only way I can do it.

 

[Jake Levi]

For pen breeding keeping track of total numbers of eggs produced/hens in the pen is the only way that I have heard of it being done other then single cages and counting eggs, in the long run the pen count gives a much better picture of a flocks production. Thats how I do it. It gives a much better average production for the period of time. For one flock all it means is putting the daily count on a calender. And adding them up for the month.

 

[Roosterfry]

Amyable-just out of curiosity where did you get you're Jaer's? And do you have any photo's of your birds?

 

[Amyable]

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[Reportedly] from Ideal; I found them on CL from someone a few cities away. A fellow BYCer picked them up for me, she said the guy was a little odd, lol. They were adults, 1 roo 4 hens, and I assume 1 yr old. Extremely shy at first, now they come running and almost get underfoot. Gotta love 'em.

I was a bit nervous about them being 'hatchery' stock, but maybe the breed hasn't been here long enough to be terribly corrupted.

My boy Norrie

His ladies

 

[Jake Levi]

They are beauties !!

I am going to try Ideal , soon as they notify me that they are shipping, the basic 25, will give me plenty of roosters to choose from, I am curious if it will be light, dark or a mix.

It sure is nice to see the green grass, and I will bet that they love it! If you dig under the snow our grass is brown and withered, but right now its pouring hard here and the snow is melting fast . But, it will be back, soon, this is just a holiday reprieve.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

how is their name pronounced? "Jay-Horn"? "Jagger-Run"? "Yer-Harn"?

Thank you!

 

[Roosterfry]

Beautiful dark variety! They look nice, appears that you lucked up on those guys! It is kinda sad they we're so shy when you got them being their such a friendly breed. He must have barely seen about them. But looks like they're in the right hands now!

 

[Roosterfry]

6chickens in St. Charles :

how is their name pronounced? "Jay-Horn"? "Jagger-Run"? "Yer-Harn"?

Thank you!

I'm not sure how it sounds when norwegians say it but I talked to a guy from norway who said "Jaers" and it sounded just like you would promounce it in normal english. He said "hon" just means hen. So you can say "Jaers" now if you like