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

[mg15]

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.

"If the parents were not good producers the offspring most likely will not be good producers."

So I would have to know the parents, which means I would have to raise them with a rooster? Right ?

I cant have a rooster I am in the city, unfortunately, altho, I do know a farmer lady.......ooohhhh, thank you, I had not thought about this. I am
just getting through fermenting,
Thanks.

 

[satay]

My pick would be australorps,rir, Leghorns, Production reds. These girls will lay great. Only thing i found with the production reds is they tend to lay like crazy but die young. Maybe it's the type we have here (isa Browns).. For colour I have araucanas and welsummers.

 

[citychickx6]

Yup have to ask a lot of questions of the people you get the chicks from.
It takes some real searching if you want a certain breed of chicken and cannot find it locally.
I drove a couple hours one way to get a bantam cochin hen this summer. I got a blue wyandotte and blue andalusian while I was there as well as another Buff Orpington.
It was well worth the drive.

 

[Choco Maran]

To be honest I'm not sure what breeds production white and reds are. I believe ,and someone can correct me if I wrong, They would be Leghorns, Sex-Links (aka Red Star and Black Star) . If you are going to sale them I would try to get the odd or rare breed chickens. I find I can sell out of the Easter Eggers and brown eggs very fast. Check my signature line to see what hens I have. I have alot of repeat buyer that love the unique colors I have. This gives me the advantage over the other seller who basicly have only brown eggs.

 

[ChickensRDinos]

Agree with White Leghorns. Huge white eggs every single day and about once a month I get two in one day.

 

[mg15]

To be honest I'm not sure what breeds production white and reds are. I believe ,and someone can correct me if I wrong, They would be Leghorns, Sex-Links (aka Red Star and Black Star) . If you are going to sale them I would try to get the odd or rare breed chickens. I find I can sell out of the Easter Eggers and brown eggs very fast. Check my signature line to see what hens I have. I have alot of repeat buyer that love the unique colors I have. This gives me the advantage over the other seller who basicly have only brown eggs.

That is interesting, unique colors,
I was thinking people only like white or brown !!!

 

[Choco Maran]

I have several that want the blue and green because they have never seen them before. They buy to take home and show friends and family. The next week they are back for some more. I joke about having "Green eggs and ham" for breakfast and they like the idea.

 

[ruffledfeathers1234]

I really like the orpingtons and astralorps as well as eastereggers for my egg laying. I have found that after having many kinds of chickens they are among the best layers.

 

[flockman]

Leghorns, Easter eggers, red sex link are all good. Buff orpingtons are friendly but also very broody.

 

[CluckyCharms]

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

How many chickens can you have? If you like all those different colors, I would go with Marans (dark brown) or Welsummer (dark brown but not as dark as a Marans) and some EEs (easter eggers) which lay a wide range of pastel colored eggs. I'd also go with an OE (olive egger) their eggs are a really need shade of olive green. Then you have the Salmon Favorelles which lay a sort of pinkish-beige egg (very pretty).

Whatever you get I'm sure you'll really like the eggs they provide=)