Winter drop in egg production - Who says?

[mjgigax]

My 5 bantam cochins started laying the second week of December when they turned 6 mo. old. I now have collecter 2 short of 5 dozen eggs. I took the first dozen to a friend with an incubator and 11 were fertile, 3 died in the shell and the other nine have hatched!!!!! One hen has quit laying because she is sitting on 11 eggs.
I am totally suprized, I was expecting nothing till spring.

 

[Fred's Hens]

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I have had kept both production types and more legacy birds. Each have their place.
No, there isn't much eating from a production hybrid at the end of the run. Merely repeating over and over the statement that "things equal out over time" between a production and a legacy bird doesn't hold much weight for me.

The more heritage type birds are often 6-7 pound birds and they simply eat more. Up to 40% more, according to my logs. Yet, they typically give 220-250 eggs a year, while the production bird can lay 300+ their pullet year and 260 the following year with production dropping in following years. The food cost to egg production ration is far, far superior.

Legacy or heritage birds have their place. Better meat. Fertilized eggs sales and so forth.
There are reasons to select either type of bird.
Frankly, the emoticon of "tongue sticking out" was rather uncalled for, imho.

 

[rancher hicks]

Fred's Hens :

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I have had kept both production types and more legacy birds. Each have their place.
No, there isn't much eating from a production hybrid at the end of the run. Merely repeating over and over the statement that "things equal out over time" between a production and a legacy bird doesn't hold much weight for me.

The more heritage type birds are often 6-7 pound birds and they simply eat more. Up to 40% more, according to my logs. Yet, they typically give 220-250 eggs a year, while the production bird can lay 300+ their pullet year and 260 the following year with production dropping in following years. The food cost to egg production ration is far, far superior.

Legacy or heritage birds have their place. Better meat. Fertilized eggs sales and so forth.
There are reasons to select either type of bird.
Frankly, the emoticon of "tongue sticking out" was rather uncalled for, imho.

The emoticon was meant to be funny. You aren't the first person on here with no sense of humor and you won't be the last. I know you think you disagree with me but your simply experiencing an illusion caused by the limits of your comprehension.

Have a good night.

Rancher​

 

[BigIslandChicks]

my girls are all just getting the swing of things and out of 8 we average 6-8 eggs per day. 2 days ago one of my barred rocks eggs was 80.3 grams and our first double yolk!!

bigger than our largest wh. leghorn egg to date!! i did add a few sm. strands of xmas lights i only put on for 2 hours from 5 - 7pm. and i am amazed at my EE pullets whose eggs are getting bigger everyday! also i should mention i am in hawaii and the coldest it gets at our house at night is 45F. and we live in one of the coldest spots on the island.