Who Lays the Best Eggs: Frequency, size, color. ?

[mg15]

I go all over the internet checking out different breeds> Which ones do I want ??
Ohhh, my lots of searching.
From your observations, who lays the best eggs ?

Thanks.

 

[Kevin565]

What color eggs do you want?

 

[rikithemonk]

Rhode Island Reds tend to be good layers. My 7 hens lay 6 eggs (on average) per day. They lay brown eggs.

Riki

 

[citychickx6]

The following is my experience and opinion on the matter.

Most important is to have good parent stock for the hens you choose. If the parents were not good producers the offspring most likely will not be good producers.
My Black Austrolorp flock from days gone by were excellent layers of large to extra large brown eggs. I got 25+
eggs a day from 30 ausseis. The Aussies I have now are not nearly as productive. I have 2 aussies and get perhaps 4 eggs a week when they are not molting or being broody.
As for quality well that comes from what you feed them.

 

[Choco Maran]

Orpington make great layers and will lay all winter. They lay brown eggs. In my experience if you leave a light on in the coop most breeds will lay during the winter and at a good pace. I have several different breeds and I get about 95 % egg on average. All lay large to jumbo. I get 45 eggs from about 50 hens.

 

[Choco Maran]

I forget to say if you are not raising to sell and for just the family and fun. It is pretty much what you like. If you are going for sales I might suggest the production white or red.

 

[Chicks Galore3]

I agree with Choco Maran- Opringtons have to be the friendliest egg layers out there! They lay good sized light to dark brown eggs most everyday. My second rank would probably be Stars. I have 4 gold stars and get deep brown eggs every single day.

 

[mg15]

I like the very dark brown, light brown and the blue and some pastels

 

[mg15]

I forget to say if you are not raising to sell and for just the family and fun. It is pretty much what you like. If you are going for sales I might suggest the production white or red.

When you say the production white or red, which are you meaning.
At some point I would like to sell them, to paid for some of the feed.

 

[mg15]

Orpington make great layers and will lay all winter. They lay brown eggs. In my experience if you leave a light on in the coop most breeds will lay during the winter and at a good pace. I have several different breeds and I get about 95 % egg on average. All lay large to jumbo. I get 45 eggs from about 50 hens.

Oh, that is good.
I will be able to have 20 chickens as that is the size of the coop to hold that many.