What are "Hylines" Chickens?

[Darth Egger]

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I can't quite believe I just read that.

 

[flgardengirl]

I also read on the incubation forum that some people who were hatching grocery store eggs were getting hy-lines as well. I can't see how they could be anymore productive than say my leghorn and my golden comet, who have given me an egg each and every day since they started laying in April. They both give Large if not Jumbo eggs sometimes as well.

 

[Darth Egger]

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Speculation.

 

[Munkeesmama]

I bought some eggs from Henry's marketplace, they came from Chino valley Ranchers. I emailed the company, and their white egg layers are hy-line. You can get some grocery store eggs and hatch them yourself.

 

[Sumatra55]

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If you have had eggs hatch from the grocery store they will not be true hy-line birds, The eggs you from the grocery store are even if from hy-line lines would not be the same birds, the birds that they actually use for table egg productions are created by a terminal cross, So if you were to hatch a egg from the store ( which is highly unlikely considering these birds have no males with them and the temperature at which they are stored in the store) this chick would not be one of their lines, they plan it this way so others cant take their lines. Much like the sex link crosses, it only works the first time, if you cross sex links to sex links the off spring is not sex linked.

 

[chknbrdr]

When you buy 'white leghorns', or brown sexlinks from most of the major hatcheries you are likely getting Hy-line Whites and Hy-line Browns. In a former career I was the Breeder Manager for Hy-line International's largest hatchery and we sold hatching eggs to the same hatcheries you all deal with for their white leghorns and their brown sex-links. If you buy from a hatchery in Texas, Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California or New Mexico you are most likely buying Hy-lines. These businesses do not keep their own breeding flocks of these particular varieties - they buy the hatching eggs. They also likely buy their broiler hatching eggs from one of the broiler hatching egg suppliers. There are very few of the hatcheries that actually breed their own chickens any more. Nearly all of the new on-line 'hatcheries' have no chickens - they are just drop-shipping from Ideal, Privett, Cackle or Meyer. If they are using poultry pictures from one of these companies in their advertising, then they do not have their own chickens.

There is a pretty good chance that eggs hatched from grocery store dozens are Hy-lines - since they hold about 90%+ of the layer genetics used in egg produciton in this country.

Matt

 

[draye]

I looking for some Hy-Line Silver Browns, anyone know of a hen house that might be getting rid of some?

 

[Pebbles]

How is it possible to hatch an egg from the grocery store? That does not make any sense to me. These eggs are not fertile and they are kept cold. I would like to hear from someone who actually hatched a grocery store egg.

 

[jim0526]

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[Caheen]

Some stores like Trader Joe's sell fertile eggs for eating.