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tereghan replied to your photo “FIRST EGGS!! My baby chicks from the fall are starting to lay their…”
Whoa, are those pink? Which breed lays pink eggs?
No, they’re not really pink, though they sort of look it in that light. I can’t think why.
They’re brown, which indicates to me that they’re unsurprisingly from the hens who make up the bulk of that flock. Those hens are of a type you’ll hear called “commercial red” or sometimes “red sex-link” or similar; these are specifically ISA Brown hens, who will lay like 300 eggs a year. (The “sex link” means that the female chicks are brown and the male chicks white, so it’s easy to sort them by sex immediately upon hatching.)
I really like the breed, though they’re bred to optimize egg production at the expense of literally everything else– they’re nosy and curious and sort of friendly if handled like, at all, and they’re quick on the uptake. They’re extremely food-motivated. I have some fancy girls in there with the others, and the Wyandottes and Homburgs are like, mega-not-friendly, but the Barred Rocks are sweet. They’re just sort of. Not as quick-witted as the Browns. (And while Wyandottes and Homburgs and Rocks will lay eggs pretty well, they’re not mega-egg-machines, and I think they lay white eggs. Oh, no, the Rocks and Wyandottes lay brown eggs, so it’s just the Homburgs who lay white.)
Who, again, are mostly just food-motivated.
None of these guys are what you’d call geniuses, though. My sister just had to go rescue a bunch of them from the electro-net, where they’d been spooked by a hawk.
No more eggs today, either. Looks like the old flock is going to have to keep up the good work a while longer.
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tereghan replied to your photo “FIRST EGGS!! My baby chicks from the fall are starting to lay their…”
Whoa, are those pink? Which breed lays pink eggs?
No, they’re not really pink, though they sort of look it in that light. I can’t think why.
They’re brown, which indicates to me that they’re unsurprisingly from the hens who make up the bulk of that flock. Those hens are of a type you’ll hear called “commercial red” or sometimes “red sex-link” or similar; these are specifically ISA Brown hens, who will lay like 300 eggs a year. (The “sex link” means that the female chicks are brown and the male chicks white, so it’s easy to sort them by sex immediately upon hatching.)
I really like the breed, though they’re bred to optimize egg production at the expense of literally everything else– they’re nosy and curious and sort of friendly if handled like, at all, and they’re quick on the uptake. They’re extremely food-motivated. I have some fancy girls in there with the others, and the Wyandottes and Homburgs are like, mega-not-friendly, but the Barred Rocks are sweet. They’re just sort of. Not as quick-witted as the Browns. (And while Wyandottes and Homburgs and Rocks will lay eggs pretty well, they’re not mega-egg-machines, and I think they lay white eggs. Oh, no, the Rocks and Wyandottes lay brown eggs, so it’s just the Homburgs who lay white.)
Who, again, are mostly just food-motivated.
None of these guys are what you’d call geniuses, though. My sister just had to go rescue a bunch of them from the electro-net, where they’d been spooked by a hawk.
No more eggs today, either. Looks like the old flock is going to have to keep up the good work a while longer.
(Your picture was not posted)
