Ponedoras and what they look like.

[mmaddie's mom]

Haha... so EVERYBODY is right... win-win-win all around!

I sometimes forget to look where everybody is located... not everybody is a local... or better yet everybody is a local SOMEPLACE!

Still think the are all nice looking birds... as are my beautiful mutts (here in Central Illionoi in the Central U.S.)!

Art as long as you're geting eggs, that's why you have them... Art's Ponedoras!

Hope the ladies have a long and healthy egg laying life!

 

[nuttyredhead]

Im not sure about breeds, but they sure are pretty chickens!

 

[kano]

mmaddie's mom :

Haha... so EVERYBODY is right... win-win-win all around!

I sometimes forget to look where everybody is located... not everybody is a local... or better yet everybody is a local SOMEPLACE!

Still think the are all nice looking birds... as are my beautiful mutts (here in Central Illionoi in the Central U.S.)!

Art as long as you're geting eggs, that's why you have them... Art's Ponedoras!

Hope the ladies have a long and healthy egg laying life!

Love for chickens is international....

 

[tuesdays chicks]

I think maybe an apology is in order, I'm going to name my pullet ponedoraand hopefully she'll start laying

 

[Costa Rica Art]

Thank all of you for your replies, it is folks like you that make this the great group that I heard about. Kindness and caring is what it is all about. Even our ponedoras know who cares.

Thanks!

Art

 

[MexiChicken]

I know this is a very old thread, but I just joined this forum because I was trying to figure out exactly what my chickens are... they are called Ponedoras... and we´ve been keeping this kind of chickens for 12 years here in very far south Mexico. (well not all the same birds, we´ve had some turnover

But Costa Rica Art wasn´t duped, or I am too They really ARE referred to as a "breed" of chicken here by the locals and by the dealers (feed stores) who sell the chicks. Because they so very, very rarely - if ever - go into a broody period. Every so often you´ll have one that does, but most of them just... don´t... for years. They produce eggs on and on and on, and pretty much daily. The Ponedoras are very friendly and funny, people oriented, just nice birds and real easy to keep. The stores here sell other birds too, including some lazy white birds I think are cornish. Double Pechuga they call them, double breasted, and they are amazing growers. Specialty birds are not sold here in this small town... I´d love to raise some White Silkies but that is another story.

Anyway, most of the Ponedoras here are red or light red like Costa Rica Art´s birds, but some of the best we´ve had are Ponedora chicks who ended up white or dark feathered. In the chick cages there are probably 95% red ones, and we got some of the dark and white ones for fun. Currently I´ve have a few of those dark and white ones for close to 4 years and they´ve never tried to go sitting once, so they are true to the "breed." We´ve hatched some chicks.... from our rooster of a different variety (because I have yet to find a feed store that sells a "Ponadora Male") and we have mixed chicks from those matings. The rooster babies make good meat birds and the females go as meat birds too after they start getting too broody. But I really would like to find out what Breed if any, that this really is... so we could find a rooster that would make us more of these great egg layers. I have an incubator and am prepared

These are my Mexican Ponadoras. I´m going to check out the Sexlinks breed, Danischi, thanks for giving me a path to investigate! Anybody else has any comments or ideas I´d be thrilled to hear.

 

[Nsampsel]

Your chickens rather look like what I bought here as "production layer pullets"...some of which were red stars & some of which were some kind of rock hybrid. The reason there are no roos of this "breed" is because the roos hatch out a different color based on what the mix is (this is how they tell pullets from roos as hatchlings) and get named something different. The problem when you breed these mixes is that they don't breed true. They tend to carry different colors & characteristics than the original parents. Seems like the ones you have are very similar mixes which would explain why you can't find the roo you are seeking.

 

[Happy Chooks]

Here is the information in regards to sex link hybrids and how to create them. Hope it helps you. They are production breeds made here in the US for high egg production.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information/0_50

 

[MexiChicken]

Thanks everybody for shedding the light onto this!!! It was awfully perplexing. After keeping and living with chickens for a really long time I sure have a lot to learn!

Well you know, really I suppose it´s not a dilemma for me to have a rooster... nice to have a gentleman clucker showing the hens where he found a cool bug and stuff. Makes for a happy social flock to watch. But for economy and sureness of what you´re getting... well, the Ponadoras as chicks sell for equiv of a dollar and a half at the feed store and are always available-- Not a lot of sense in breaking my brain to try and make chicks at home, as it´s like throwing darts blindfolded.

I do have some recent crosses out of these funny hens though. The boys grew out big and fast as well as the girls.The young hens are laying well -- one lays big huge eggs like a duck. The crosses are young, hatched Sept 30, the young girls started popping out eggs in February, so that was great. But they are randomly strange looking progeny from the orginal Ponadoras, you are right they don´t breed true. Here´s the odd looking big egg laying baby and one of her brothers. That young hen has green legs too which is peculiar.

 

[Costa Rica Art]

Grrrrr, need to figure out how to upload photos all over again.

The second photo shows a ponedora on the right side and a roo that I am hoping to breed to the meat chicken in the bottom photo.

The hen in the top photo lays huge eggs, I would love to get a cross with her and the roo in the second photo (plus they both have good weight).

I'll have to separate her and the roo in another area till she and he have had an encounter and let her lay maybe a dozen eggs then pick maybe the next 6 or 8 eggs and hatch them.

The roo in the third photo is just a handsome dude, not for breeding which I'm not sure that he is what I would want for a breeder anyhow (no weight).

I also plan to take one of the meat hens and breed her with the roo in the second photo to see if I can have my own stock of meat chickens.

The ponedoras and the meat chickens are from the local feed store, the roos and other laying hen is from other folks that have chickens for eggs, no idea what breed they are but if they produce a good stock for me then I will be happy and just call them Costa Rica specials!

The roo and the hen both have good weight so they offspring should give me good eggs and then the meat hen and roo should produce good fryers and roasters. Anyway it will keep me and them busy and with luck produce what I think will be my own good stock.