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I'm curious about how much of the egg laying ability/egg size they got from the RIR? Are they better layers than a silkie, generally, or is that a total and complete toss-up, too? Are the eggs MUCH smaller thanks to the Silkie influence?
So far the eggs have been smaller than the RIR's but not as small as regular silkies but I'm gessing they are closer to regular size eggs than to silkie size eggs, altho they've only been laying for 2 months so who knows they might grow in size, they also started laying way earlier than their other pure bred silkie sisters. As far as production goes I get anywhere from 4 to 5 eggs a week from each one of them.
And they did definatly got the broody gene from the silkies, one of them laid only for a week before she went broody and she did a great job.
Thats how mine is, shes a good layer while she is laying but If I leave the eggs in the nest, she'll start setting when she gets enough eggs in the nest.
I'm curious about how much of the egg laying ability/egg size they got from the RIR? Are they better layers than a silkie, generally, or is that a total and complete toss-up, too? Are the eggs MUCH smaller thanks to the Silkie influence?
So far the eggs have been smaller than the RIR's but not as small as regular silkies but I'm gessing they are closer to regular size eggs than to silkie size eggs, altho they've only been laying for 2 months so who knows they might grow in size, they also started laying way earlier than their other pure bred silkie sisters. As far as production goes I get anywhere from 4 to 5 eggs a week from each one of them.
And they did definatly got the broody gene from the silkies, one of them laid only for a week before she went broody and she did a great job.
Thats how mine is, shes a good layer while she is laying but If I leave the eggs in the nest, she'll start setting when she gets enough eggs in the nest.
