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Both my batch of hens I recommend warrens even though my others haven't started properly
 
Henerz101 said:
Both my batch of hens I recommend warrens even though my others haven't started properly
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@ campingshaws
If you are interesting in knowing more, Warrens is one of many labels used by some hatcheries for their Red Sex Links, which are produced by crossing a RIR rooster with a silver gene hen to produce offspring that can be sexed by color at hatching (male chicks are whitish, female chicks are reddish). Other labels under which hatcheries sell them are Red Star, Brown Sex Link, Gold Sex Link, Golden Buff, Cinnamon Queen, Bovans Brown, Golden Comet, Hubbard Golden Comet, Isa Brown, Babcock Brown, Hylines, Gold Lines, Lohmans, Lohmans Brown, Bovans Goldline, etc. It can be rather confusing, but they are all Red Sex Links and are all egg laying machines.
There is also a Black Sex Link which is produced by crossing an RIR rooster with a BR hen to produce offspring that can be sexed by color at hatching as well (male chicks are black with a white spot on top of their heads, female chicks are solid black), and like the Red Sex Links, they are egg laying machines as well. The sex link offspring will outlay either of their parent breeds, which is an interesting phenomenon of hybridization. I have had both Red and Black Sex Links, and can attest to their amazing egg laying abilities. I still have Black Sex Links and love them as they are friendly and consistently give me more than 300 eggs per hen per year.
 
Thanks for the welcome and the advice! We found out that a (semi) local feed store carried a mix of black australorps, RIRs, and buff orpingtons. We drove all the way over and realized the chickens were MIXED with those three breed. :/

My wife couldn't stand waiting another minute, so these are the five she picked out.
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Is there a good way for us to guess how old that biggest girl may be? They said around four months, but it wasn't a very good feed store...
 
campingshaws said:
Thanks for the welcome and the advice! We found out that a (semi) local feed store carried a mix of black australorps, RIRs, and buff orpingtons.
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Those are all good breeds. I have all three of them and still have Black Australorps and Buff Orpingtons. BAs are my favorite standard breed; very hardy, calm and gentle, and while not quite as good a layers as the Sex Links, are still the best layers of the standard, brown egg laying breeds. Good luck with your flock.
 
Michael OShay said:
Those are all good breeds. I have all three of them and still have Black Australorps and Buff Orpingtons. BAs are my favorite standard breed; very hardy, calm and gentle, and while not quite as good a layers as the Sex Links, are still the best layers of the standard, brown egg laying breeds. Good luck with your flock.
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I, too, LUV my Black Australorp gals! I love the way they 'talk' to me...all the time. I must admit they are spoiled little brats!
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campingshaws said:
Thanks for the welcome and the advice! We found out that a (semi) local feed store carried a mix of black australorps, RIRs, and buff orpingtons. We drove all the way over and realized the chickens were MIXED with those three breed.
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My wife couldn't stand waiting another minute, so these are the five she picked out.

Is there a good way for us to guess how old that biggest girl may be? They said around four months, but it wasn't a very good feed store...
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How adorable! I would say about 3 1/2 months old, maybe 4 months. So the feed store was pretty close. :-)

Cutie pies!!
 

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