Poultry Talk Ontario (pto.ca)

Today I got three eggs from my Easter egger bantams. Nothing exciting there except I only have TWO hens! They are really good little layers, its one of the reasons I sold the three Ameraucanas who only averaged two eggs a day and ate a heck of a lot more feed, plus they really started being aggressive towards the little ee's . I have all the eggs I need from those two tiny egg machines, the eggs are a nice size however. I thought I forgot to collect the egg from yesterday but it was sitting on the counter where I left it last night. I hatched lots of chicks off them, all colours came out.

I guess they haven't gone broody on you!

Nice production, must be the hybrid vigor

Happy wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 14, 2017 8:06 am

I guess they haven't gone broody on you!

Nope! They do sometimes make hidden nests when out but no sign of going broody. It's too late now anyway so I don't want them to. I collect the eggs as soon as I get home not to encourage it. Imagine if I infused some leghorn into them, to make the egg a little bigger but keep the green colour. Their feed conversion must be crazy, the eggs are a nice size but they hardly eat anything.

I have a Wyandott bantam and Buff Brahma bantam that hatched chicks out already, they are off the ee and Ameraucanas.

Ontario Chick wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 14, 2017 10:56 am

Nice production, must be the hybrid vigor

I think so as well, they and the chicks I hatched off them are much stronger and more clever than the other birds.