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Exactly. Cool eggs, when you get them.
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Do you have Red Sex Links now? They are great egg producers, but personally, I think they're kind of ugly birds. With all of the different color splotches they have, they just look unkempt to me. Barred PR's are cool looking...
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Is this one you got last spring? I haven't had one go into Molt yet. Maybe that was the reason I was getting rid of them after one season... (grin)
No, our head hen is almost 6 years old and the friend I got her from says she molts every December. She's a Black Star and lays probably 5-6 enormous eggs a week when she's not molting. I keep hearing people say that production is supposed to drop way off after a few years, but she's a rock star in our coop (when she's not molting, that is).
I don't have any Red Sex Links yet. I do have Lola (Black Star from McMurray Hatchery), and 2 Black Sex Links that are pretty good layers, too, but their eggs aren't as big as Lolas (but they've only been laying about 6 weeks). Are Golden Comets the same as a Red Sex Link? I just want some healthy birds that lay lots of eggs that are decent looking and not too flighty. I have two Barred Playmouth Rocks that are really good layers, but their eggs are smaller than Lolas (everybody's eggs are smaller than Lola). They're excellent foragers, but are buggers to keep in the run. If they feel like foraging in the snow, they get out somehow - and then can't find their way back in, so they run back and forth in front of the gate, squawking and wailing. And Lavender keeps laying her eggs in the woodpile, too busy to make her way back to the coop, I guess.
