whats the best yard chicken for eggs to eat?

Answer 1

Most of the large breed chickens are wonderful for egg production. Black Sex Links and Rhode Island Reds are wonderful producers. I would highly suggest the Black Sex Links, as I own a few of them, they are high production egg layers.

Feed is another important factor in egg production. A well balanced diet of crack corn and layer food such as 22% is very essential. Most Co-Op stores carry the layer food 22%.

Another important note is to make sure these birds are well protected from any predators. Proper fencing and housing is important towards a happy bird. Happy birds lay more eggs than distressed ones.

Answer 2

Small yard go for bantams they are great bug catchers and really friendly but of course do lay smaller eggs.
Some of the best laying chooks around are the Leghorns and white leghorns are the most common commercial egg producer. Two things to keep in mind are 1) bigger chooks produce bigger eggs 2) darker chooks produce brown eggs. The best laying chooks are generally W.Leghorn x Australorp as this cross retains the long laying period but beefs up the hen and they produce bit bigger eggs (these look like WLeg's but have a few stray black feathers). Some other great chooks are the Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds (which are probably my 2 favourites), Hamburgs, and Sussex are good too. If you want to think about eating the older birds consider the larger breeds as you will get more off them but also note that australorps have a reputation for going broody (wanting to set).

Answer 3

Rhode Island Reds, NH reds. They lay eggs for a fairly decent length of time before they go into a molt. Orpingtons are good egg layers as well. All chickens will lay eggs just some produce longer then others before molting.

Answer 4

We have ISA brown's and they are suposed to produce about 300 in their first year, they are a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a Rhode Island White, a nice temperament, and nice big eggs.
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