what is the most popular chicken for quality egg production?

Question

i see many people have white leghorns others have buff orps, etc. i have broilers but want to do some breeding w/ the leghorns. just wondering for sales and stuff what would go the best (people want more). they are cage-free and are fed vegitarian diet. please explain your answer.

Answer 1

I have had Red Star layers, and they are fabulous. They are a sex-linked cross, so easy to sex. they lay well in winter and have a good feed conversion - but they are not very nice.

I have had Buff Orpingtons. The eggs are about the same production at the Red Stars, but the feed conversion is a little less good. They can be ranged better than Red Stars in a family yard though, because they are sweet.

I have had dark Cornish... Nice eggs, very resilient but MEAN.

This batch is Orpingtons.

Answer 2

Leghorns are popular because they are prolific layers of large white eggs (which are popular in supermarkets) and lay year round and not all breeds do this. Their temperment, however, ranges from mild to aggressive in confinement. I can say that I do not like my leghorns and most of them have now been eaten. They're more flighty and not as prolific as my rhode island reds (okay, they might be but the leghorns keep hiding their eggs so i can't tell!). The rhode island reds are also noted for their large eggs which are brown and lay year round. They are noted for a calmer personality which i can vouch for. They're very calm around the house and put themselves away on their perches each night. Unfortunately my remaining white leghorn insists on sleeping outside in the pine and i assume that at some point she'll be dinner for an owl.

I used this chart to compare breeds before I bought and got the right breed for what i wanted. Hopefully it will help you decide: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/dual.html

I looked mostly at the number of eggs represented, the size of the eggs, whether they layed year round and their temperment.

Answer 3

Well this question is exactly where my specialty lies. Hi I'm Waine, the genral Poultryman at the largest poultry farm in the county, and we specialize in none other than breeding for sales. The white leghorn is in fact a very good egg layer, as their systems allow them to produce one large white egg a day, while in their prime, first 2 years however, another extreemly sufficent chicken for laying and breeding, is the Rhode Island Red. They will lay one red large egg day in their prime of 2 to 3 years. I say the Rhode Island Red is better because, for a reason i dont know, they seem to reproduce better, thereof more stock to sell.
If, Hypotheticly, you bought 100 straight run Rhode Island REd chicks this breeding season and.... 65 were hens, and ther rest were rosters, you could raise them to about 7 or 8 months old, at wich your hens should be laying. now at this point you have spent ap. 4.50 per bird to raise the bird, but if you sell all but 20 hens and, sbout 10 rosters, at 5 to 7 dollars each. Now yes this may not be a sufficent proffit, but it will grow. Each year you should keep 5 to 10 hens, and 3 or 4 rosters, so that yoou can expect your proffit to grow.
We started our farm only 3 years ago, and useing this stratagey, my first year, i mad only $15 that year. The next year we hatched the chicks, and raiserd them, and sold at the prices, and at auctions , and made $500, Next year, $1,000, our projected proffit for this year is if it all goes to plan, a proffit of $5,000. See the trend?

I hope this will help you out
sincerely, Waine
-YRPF general poultryman.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

My grandmother raised chickens for most her 90 years and always swore by leghorns even though she also had barred Plymouth rock. She always fed them grain and laying pellets.

Answer 6

Red Comets lay brown eggs,are medium sized, with good production and if you can free range them then the egg value increases about 25%.
Good luck

Answer 7

Get sasha. Their eggs are exelent and they put extra nutriens inside the eggs. (genetically improved)

Answer 8

i think America.