Your opinion wanted: white eggs.

[JimW]

The Brabanters are great birds, I might just have to get a few again this year from FRF, as my Houdan project for white eggs is not developing very quickly. This coming spring I am hoping for a nice mix of egg colours.... Marans (dark brown), Bielfelder, Delawares, Brahmas and Barred Rocks (various shades of light-med brown), Houdan (white), Cream Legbars (blue), Ameracaunas (blue-green) and Marans x Ameracaunas (olive).

I am thinking I need a few leghorn hens to up my white egg count.

Jim

[Skinny rooster]

I had to look up brabanters as I never heard of them before. They look like their mother has been around lol. Like a mix of many breeds. I have to go read up on them.

[Robbie]

Skinny rooster- ah haaa haa haaaaaa!

[Lynners]

Leghorns are MACHINES. I had a small flock of 11, and if I remember correctly, all of them were laying daily by week 18. I was averaging 9 or 10 eggs a day through their first winter, too.

[Robbie]

Leghorns are MACHINES. I had a small flock of 11, and if I remember correctly, all of them were laying daily by week 18. I was averaging 9 or 10 eggs a day through their first winter, too.

What kind of leghorns were they? They sound like very good layers indeed.

[Lynners]

They were just leghorns from Freys. Not sure of any specifics about them.

[Robbie]

OK thanks Lynners I've always been pleased with Frey's laying breeds myself but I've never tried their leghorns.

[coonhound]

I got all kinds of white egg layers for every one brown eggs i get i get a doz of white eggs

[Robbie]

Hm I hadn't thought about putting a few brown eggs in a carton with mostly white ones. That would be nice.

[SandyM]

I've read leghorns are skittish. Is that your experience Lynners? I didn't know Freys had leghorns. Interesting.