What breed is the best year round brown egg layer?

[kychic]

Well I want to have a longer producing hen, I mean just a year really isn't what i'm looking for.

 

[Cowgirl71]

Don't forget Rhode Island Reds! My best layers are my RIRs, various Sex-Links, and Australorps, in that order!

I would highly recommend McMurray's RIRs for an excellent egg production breed that is purebred vs. a hybrid, so you can hatch your own replacement chicks! RIR roosters are known to be aggressive, but McMurrays aren't. I got about 20 of them last year and none of them ever attacked humans.

 

[Judy]

Love my black Australorps, and they lay very well. Buff Orps do, too, though. My Speckled Sussex are also still laying. And they are real breeds, not crosses, and will breed true.

Have you looked at Henderson's? http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Commercial Sex-Links will burn out early. Sounds like you'll want Rhode Island Reds or Black Australorps. Both of those breeds are purebred, so you can hatch your own replacements!

 

[kychic]

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Commercial Sex-Links will burn out early. Sounds like you'll want Rhode Island Reds or Black Australorps. Both of those breeds are purebred, so you can hatch your own replacements!

Will my orps produce as good as the rir's and australorps?

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Commercial Sex-Links will burn out early. Sounds like you'll want Rhode Island Reds or Black Australorps. Both of those breeds are purebred, so you can hatch your own replacements!

Will my orps produce as good as the rir's and australorps?

Buff Orpingtons are excellent fall, winter, and spring layers. In fact, they would rate right up there with my RIRs for egg production, except they love to go broody over the summer. And of course when they go broody they quit laying eggs for a minimum of two weeks, depending on how quickly you can break them of it (often not an easy task, LOL).

They do make great mommas!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Yes, the Buff Orphington will go broody every time the wind blows!

 

[sunflowerenvy]

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Will my orps produce as good as the rir's and australorps?

Buff Orpingtons are excellent fall, winter, and spring layers. In fact, they would rate right up there with my RIRs for egg production, except they love to go broody over the summer. And of course when they go broody they quit laying eggs for a minimum of two weeks, depending on how quickly you can break them of it (often not an easy task, LOL).

They do make great mommas!
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yeah these look funny to me but i am your mommy any ways

 

[Lbrad7]

My favorite is the production RIR because they do breed true and they lay very large eggs that have a beautiful rich brown egg shell color.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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She loved them though! They would peck her face, and she didn't mind. One of the little buggers even bit her wattle and held on tight, and tried to tear it off (teeny-tiny duckling style, LOL), and she just sat there and took it. She was so upset when I took them from her...