Well, outside of the city but still Katy. Apparently, we’re allowed to have chickens. Wife wants 2-3 egg layers. What is the quietest and most prolific egg layer breed?
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probably a better idea to start with how many eggs you want and at what rate, then figure out what hens to go with. that said, cinnamon queens and production reds are great starters and there's a decent chance you can find some that are just off their first year of production and getting moved out of ranches. you trade off their first year of high production but at the same time you don't have to raise them from chicks. there's also leghorns.
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I put mine in a converted rabbit hutch and placed it outside a 10x10 dog pen up against the outside chain-link fence of the pen then I cut the chain-link in a small area and had the gang plank go through the chain-link into the door of the rabbit hutch from inside the dog pen. Put some hardware cloth around the outside where the gangplank went through the chain-link and stappled it to the wooden rabbit hutch and zip tied it to the chainlink. Put some chicken wire over the top of dog pen and I can keep them in there when we are gone. Put a 2x4" in the hutch off the bottom for them to hop on to roost when they go in there at night too.
I raised the chicks in the hutch and now they roost in there as they got older.
5 or 6 would be best number probably in case a couple crooked.
I like red sex links, Barred Rock or Orpington breeds
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Get a variety. For most productive and prettiest eggs, I go for black sex link. When my others shut down, these ladies keep pumping them out. Eggs are darker brown than Barred Rocks or Rhode Island Reds, which I also recommend. Light brown eggs.
Throw in an Americana just because blue/green eggs are cool.Last edited by Tex_Cattleman; 02-07-2023, 06:58 PM.
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Originally posted by tps7742 View PostClose those chickens up in a backyard and walking barefoot could be interesting if you free range them any at all. Good luck.
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Originally posted by Mitchell8 View PostThey are nasty hope you got a big yard and an area to keep them contained in
Yard isn’t huge. Normal suburbia yard I guess.. plan is to keep them mostly in the run but let them out into the main yard every so often.
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Originally posted by dhall1414 View Postprobably a better idea to start with how many eggs you want and at what rate, then figure out what hens to go with. that said, cinnamon queens and production reds are great starters and there's a decent chance you can find some that are just off their first year of production and getting moved out of ranches. you trade off their first year of high production but at the same time you don't have to raise them from chicks. there's also leghorns.
We probably eat 5-6 eggs every breakfast.
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