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

[flockman]

My ducks actually lay better than chickens. Who knew?

 

[mg15]

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=)

I can have up to 20 chickens.
Olive Egger ?
How exciting !
Thanks.

 

[CarolJ]

If you are wanting a variety of colored eggs, I'd get Easter Eggers (green/blue eggs), some type of leghorn (white eggs), Welsummer (reddish brown eggs - sometimes with speckles),Black Copper Marans (chocolate brown eggs), and then a couple of light brown egg layers (Orpingtons, Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, etc.). If you can get a hen that lays an olive egg, that would be a great egg color, too.

I sell just enough eggs to help pay for chicken feed - and my customers love the variety of colors. I have to admit - I love them, too.

 

[CluckyCharms]

I can have up to 20 chickens.
Olive Egger ?
How exciting !
Thanks.

Yep, they're not as well known as EEs (yet) but they're the same concept (no particular breed, but lay olive colored eggs). Here is the BYC Olive Egger thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/131131/the-olive-egger-thread

 

[ruffledfeathers1234]

And I recomend olive eggers as well. They're good chickens too.

 

[janelle18]

Frequency : Light Sussex ( i have 7 hens they give me 6-7 eggs a day, good size egg as well)
Size: My Sex-Links lay HUGE eggs but they are over a year old
Colour: Welsummer for dark shell colour(+lay a lot), and EE for the blue colour (take a long time to start laying, don't lay as often)

 

[mg15]

My ducks actually lay better than chickens. Who knew?

HI, what do the duck egg taste like ?

 

[mg15]

If you are wanting a variety of colored eggs, I'd get Easter Eggers (green/blue eggs), some type of leghorn (white eggs), Welsummer (reddish brown eggs - sometimes with speckles),Black Copper Marans (chocolate brown eggs), and then a couple of light brown egg layers (Orpingtons, Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, etc.). If you can get a hen that lays an olive egg, that would be a great egg color, too.

I sell just enough eggs to help pay for chicken feed - and my customers love the variety of colors. I have to admit - I love them, too.

That is what I want to do, is pay for the feed, good feed.
My coop will hold 20 but they run around alot.

How many chickens do you have, that you can sell the eggs, and recoup your money for feed?

 

[mg15]

Yep, they're not as well known as EEs (yet) but they're the same concept (no particular breed, but lay olive colored eggs). Here is the BYC Olive Egger thread:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/131131/the-olive-egger-thread

OHHHH, Thanks

 

[mg15]

Janelle18:

"My Sex-Links"
And if you don't mind, exactly which ones ??
Thank you.