Which Are Good Egg Layers White Chickens

[felidaet]

My White Leghorn started laying in mid-August and has been laying continually since then. She probably misses one day out of every 2 - 3 weeks. She lays an occasional double yoker. Last week she layed a huge 82 gram egg!

I am hoping to get a couple of more White Leghorns in a mixed assortment of 10 layers in April. These feed store assortments usually have quite a few leghorns in them. If I don't get a couple I might just have to add one or two more birds to my April acquisitions. Don't tell my wife...

I have heard good things about California Whites and may get one this year. A couple of local feed stores are going to have them. I would like to know more about Rhode Island Whites but I have never seen any available locally.

I don't have experience with Delewares yet. I am getting two this spring.

 

[kittykorat]

My DH wanted a white chicken. We got a white rock. She's not laying just yet, but she is pretty, and friendly.

She's in the middle of my EE's

 

[RHewitt]

White Rocks are great! Very hardy and they lay nice big brown eggs. Two of my hens went broody and made great mothers here is a pic! If you cross a white rock hen with a RIR Roo the chicks that are yellow/white(chick in photo on the left) will be males and chicks that hatch out reddish (the one the right) will be females. This cross produces a red sex link that lays well.

 

[Jasont]

I was watching Modern Marvels on the History Channel. They did a segment on eggs and said that the color of a hens earlobe determines the color of the egg. Has anyone ever heard this? Just wondering...

Jason

 

[RHewitt]

I saw the same show and noticed my White Rock's have white ear lobs but they lay brown eggs.

 

[Jasont]

i DVR'd it to make sure that i did not hear them wrong. I have never heard that before and if it is true, no one has told my hens, they apparently do not know the rules. I have 10 RIR's and one of them lays a white egg (at lest white compared to the rest).

 

[Mahonri]

Quote:
If you have a red hen laying a white egg, it's probably a red leghorn.

 

[Jasont]

it is not white like you would buy at the store, but it is compared to the rest. Does a Red Leghorn look just like a RIR? How can you tell them apart?