Hello everyone,
Chicken is a very friendly and familiar animal to everyone. Chicken raising can bring us many benefits: we can eat eggs, we can eat chicken, ... Chicken also has many types, I don't know which chicken has the most eggs for me. can be raised to bring high economic efficiency?
Thanks everyone.
Are you interested in chickens for both eggs and meat? If you want
both eggs and meat, you're looking at a lot of options. Personally, I have a laying flock and then annually we raise Cornish Cross (CX or Cornish X) meat chickens and butcher them all at once to fill the freezer. They are good for slaughter between 8-10 weeks of age, on average.
As other stated, for productive egg layers, Leghorns are one of the best, but even if you bred them, they are extremely lean, the amount of meat you'd get would hardly be worth the effort in my opinion. They have the best feed to egg conversion ratio, meaning they eat less feed to produce an egg than most other breeds. Keep in mind the older they get, the larger their eggs will be, the more likely they will be to lay double yolkers, and the more likely they will be to suffer vent prolapses, egg binding (egg stuck inside chicken), and reproductive cancers, all of which are deadly. You'll deal with those problems far more often than you will with many other breeds. There is nothing wrong with choosing this breed, as long as you are aware of the future of your flock. They lay white eggs.
If you choose a hybrid variety, they tend to be
a little more meaty, nearly as prolific as leghorns, but they won't breed true if you have a rooster, but they are slightly less likely to have as many reproductive issues. They usually have a good feed conversion to egg ratio, but not as good as leghorns. Again, nothing wrong with this choice as long as you are aware of the issues you may face. They lay brown eggs.
Finally, you can choose a dual purpose breed (Sussex, Wyandottes, Orpingtons, barred rocks, brahmas, Delawares, etc.). These breeds tend to be hearty, the roosters are large and great for meat, and the hens are great egg layers, great for meat when they get older, and tend to have less health issues in the long-term. These breeds are great for a self-sustaining flock, tend to be excellent foragers, hearty to many climates, and more. They aren't the
best at laying nor the biggest meat birds, but they are a great compromise to get the best of both worlds. Personally, I have some barred rocks and they lay huge eggs, usually about five a week, they tend to lay longer in the season, and they are friendly huge birds. These breeds also lay brown eggs.
Did this help you at all?
