What's a good breed that will lay during heat(and cold)? I don't know what kind I have now...will take pix later...but they quit on me in the heat.
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Good laying hens for the heat?
black sex links ??
Naked necks (Turkens) are suppose to be excellent in the heat and good in the cold as well.
Brown leghorns, the best in heat and cold, hands down!
Okie dokie I want some of them. Eggs is what I mostly want.
i have requested some from a breeding farm, same place i got mine from in 2005.... waiting to hear back, could be as early as this next week...
Tia, so, do i give you their number if they have extras? Bigred?
I have a source but thanks for asking.Think I'll get a mix of brown leghorn and black sex links.
I'm really wanting ones that lay big brown eggs for farmers market customers as well as own use.
We had some red hens(I think wyndottes,probably mis-spelled)that were great layers but my neighbors dogs broke in the coop and killed every one of them.
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i think the red ones may have been orps, they are just alike. your sexlinks will lay the brown, but your white eggs will be bigger, and when your sexlinks go broody your leghorns will keep on laying. my customers like the mix of colors and sizes in their cartons, but you may have regualtions at the farmer's market...
my brown sex links are pretty consistent egg layers but they dont go broody
josh
Well,McMurray's only has the Turkens...have a friend that raises these so I can get them locally but I need a good source for others.
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i would giv them a go then
Nope i am doing with ordering chickens for now thanks. Gotta learn how to do a spreadsheet thingy so I can keep track of how much these are costing. So far not to bad. I think I have about 300 bucks in it right now.
i have never bought any so to actualy get were i am now it has only cost me about 50 bucks because i get a lot of my chickens from friends. foods pretty expensive though some times its 12 dollars other times its 20 dollars it variys a bit
the feed I got 25 lb bag was 12. 95 I will go up to 50 lb bags soon. What is going to be expensive is feeding them boiled eggs. They love it these 80 chicks get 4 to 5 boiled eggs a day. When they start laying then it wont be so bad.
I will second Turkens, mine did very well in S Florida all year, and nice, big, brown eggs. Big plus, they're very friendly and docile.
Yup, my favorites, can you tell??
We had a turken a trade for roo's. She was so friendly, a good brooder also.
Ideal has REALLY nice turkens, i was just at a friends who got some. lots of colors too!
i just went over to mcmurry hatchery and they have heaps of varietys i am realy temped to get the peafowl and the rarest of rare package but then i think of how much it would cost so i prbably wont but i can dream
i don't think they would be allowed to ship to you.... not this year anyhow, they had alittle outbreak of disease there...
were australia or the us
US, but they shipped sick chicks into canada...
well i probably wouldnt do it if i could anyway it would cost a fortune
i think you are doing great hatching out your own!
yeh it is so much fun cant wait for my silkies to hatch still got 8 days:(
I wanted some black swans they had(sold out) don't know what the world I'd do with them since the pasture is only fenced w/ bared wire (rural...lots of loose dogs)and there's no pond. Of course tons of other birds if I could convince hub's to fence back yard. Just a couple each for mating and raising chicks. Don't know if I'd want to try to sell them since you have to buy a permit/inspect cert. that cost a fortune.They'd keep bug population down around #1 greenhouse and little backyard veggie garden.
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when i got the silkiesi didnt have a clue what i would do with them .i only got them because i dont have any pure breed chickens except the austrlorps but now i keep them for fun in a seperate pen so i get pure babies and there first babies are hatching now so i am getting pumped
josh
I have to agree with tamarafaye, brown leghorns, Mine lay the prettiest brown eggs darker than all the other eggs for some reason too.
lay when no one else will.
I'm gonna have to get some more of them.
Rhodeisland reds are suppose to be good, but mind slow down somewhat during the heat.
Kathy_ann........you have Brown Leghorns that lay brown eggs? My Brown Leghorns lay white eggs so I am wondering.......
Christy
surely a typo?
Ha ha. ! NO type o. but It must be some other chickens out there laying the dark brown eggs LOL I thought it was the brown leghorn doing that. I always though t the brown leghorn laid brown eggs and the white leghorn lay the white eggs. LOL I wondered where my white eggs came from.
GOSH! I feel like a dork LOL they still lay good though.
Learn something new every day. Hey now, they should be laying brown eggs, their brown hens, LOL
My Brown Leghorns lay white, too...
*g* Check their ears (patches on the side of their head) to figure out what color they lay....white ears, white eggs :).
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I know, I know, I messed up. LOL. MINE lay white too. I just didn't know that. I only have a few of them. and have so many other breeds too , I don'tthink have any other that lay white eggs though.
so, that means soemone else is laying well in the heat, who is it?
LOL I got about l5 hens, lots of young ones of diff breeds, but the only ones laying are the RIR and the red sexlinks. and brown leghorns. I'm getting about half the eggs a day that I have hens. Lost a RIR hen yesterday we're not sure why . their not old. 3 years is the oldest. the rest are just a couple years old.
I got some 5 month olds going to be laying soon. all diff breeds. I bought a batch of RIR straight run and looks like I got a lot of roosters otu there that i'm going to have to have DH kill.
I did say DH right? LOL
lol yea u did good luck
LOL Kathy.....thanks for a good laugh! Laughing with you, not at you mind you! For a minute you had me wondering about what mine really are laying??? Nope, they can only being laying the white eggs. We got ours in a 'barnyard special' mix last June or July and had never had the Brown Leghorn before. We only had 4 of them.....one fell over and died about 2 weeks ago....we still don't know why. Now we have 3 and one is....or was sitting on eggs. We just found out the other night that the other broody in the pen with her stole her eggs from her and she is now sitting on nothing. Dang!
thanks again for the laugh! It's so hard to tell who might be laying what when you have different kinds but it sure is fun figuring it out!
Christy
LOL it's ok, If I was worried about folks laughing at me I'd go back and erase my post before everybody saw it. BUT, I don't care LOL. WE all need a good laugh once in a while, even if the post wasnt a joke .
Some of the sex-links are from crosses with Leghorns to produce lots of brown eggs
My 20 week old RIR just laid her third egg and it is 112 degrees here. So I nominate her as a good heat layer. She may just not know any better. None of the other 4 breeds have started laying yet.
wats the earliest age that one of your chickens have gone broody catscan the youngest chook that i hav had that has gone broody is 11 months
Well my first pullets would have been a year old--but since they turned into roos, I doubt they ever went broody:0). My second group are 20 weeks and the RIR is just starting to lay. She is pretty intense about looking for places to lay, but RIR have a reputation for not going broody--so not expecting it from her. Welsummers likewise. Some Marans are very broody, and Orpingtons are, and Delaware are. Not expecting the Barnevelder to be broody--but my Nakins are exceptionally broody. That is what saved them from extinction--they were used as gamebird broodies.
I'll let you know if it happens!