WOW WHAT AN INFORMATIVE VIDEO, and well designed. Most of these countries I never thought of as having poultry . So many different breeds that I never heard of, but several I have had. I tend to "go for" the colored egg layers. I have always loved AMERACAUNAS. This year I found 2 breeds that I never heard of, and gave them a try--- very pleased. TRUE BLUE WHITINGS + TRUE GREEN WHITINGS. Both are very good layers, nice, friendly poultry ,and I will order them again. 👍
Mr this is all fake.you do not know any thing about chikens or poltry.this vidio is totaly fake and full of jokes.....there r only 10 to 15 types of chikens in the world best spesies in eggs production........plz go to incyclopiedia for mor knowledge.....font believe on thies fake vidioes.
In 2020 we got 10 Easter Eggers. They have been really great. Out of the 10 chickens we average 6 eggs per day. Backyard chickens should ALMOST be mandatory. So beneficial, useful, can learn alot from having chick's. Their manure is useful as well. It's just one step towards self sustainment. This world talks alot about it, but does not utilize it.
Wow only six a day... I hav had roadh Island reds last few years they produce one a day each until days get shorter they once on the week they may skip one or two
@@carlindurfee7566 well maybe ne have been outthis last week it got down to four degrees we did put a heat light in their nesting box they were fine. I love my Rhode Island reds for a couple of reasons one they're very sweet pretty quiet can be used for both eggs and meat yet they lay quite a few eggs one a day in the winter time they may skip a day
l have had Buff Orps, Gold laced Wyandotts and Black Jersey Giant hens. All were wonderful. My Rooster was a Black Jersey Giant and was almost 2 feet tall and was VERY protective of his girls. I saw him run off a racoon but he was a cantankerous SOB and would spur anything that got close. He was also a good dad.
Speckled Sussexes are one of my favorites. They are very good layers, have their natural instincts, are good foragers, and smart (for a chicken). They are survivors, more so than other breeds I've had.
Chickens have an amazing vocabulary. I've found over twenty calls they make with specific meanings. Fun to raise and very friendly. Loved every minute of it.
Leghorns for the win... Small tidy birds who seldom go off lay during the winter months, and are pretty ecconomic on feed too. Eggs are a bit smaller - but of wonderful flavour and quality.
You have lost your mind, AUSTRALORP produce 280-310 the first three years. One hen has produced 365 eggs in a year, only toped by a leghorn at 366 eggs in a year. Other than that Great video!
Thank you for the information. This is presented based on the average egg production by breeds. However, there are several individual cases which can vary depending on their diet, health, environment and many other factors.
@@jes6427 sorry. We got ours at tractor supply last spring. They are awesome and produce a ton of eggs. 25+ a week on average now that they are full grown.
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My favorites are some you don't show. I have 4 Sapphire Gem hens. They are fantastic layers of about 300 large to extra large brown eggs per year. Friendly birds and easy to handle.
SG are also the breed I have. I only have two hens now and I get 8 eggs per week. One lady laid every other day through our below 0 temps. They are so sweet!!
Nice job! The California Grey gets my vote for a white egg layer, and Delawares for brown. I've raised both for years and they're great layers, good in cold weather, gentle, and hardy.
That was great to watch, so informative. I grew up in the country and we had chickens for awhile, but got rid of them and just got our eggs from our neighbor who had a bird sanctuary. He had every type of bird imaginable, but also had chickens for laying. Now my sister has chickens and I can get them from her. So many different types to choose from. If I ever got any for myself, I would have to get one that doesn't lay that many eggs.
If you get too many eggs, you can always donate them to a food bank. That's what I do. I also give them to my friends who don't have chickens, and donate others to homeless shelters. I have a flock of fourteen layers, and even in the winter they produce more eggs than we can eat! But I wouldn't give up a single one of my girls.
I've been looking for low egg layers - can't eat eggs but live having chickens in the orchards - so this has been very handy. Most aren't available in Australia but Pekins seem doable and a couple of others.
You can't beat old english games for what you're looking for. They do lay eggs but often quit to set when they get a clutch. They are relatively able to forage for themselves and eat tons of bugs.
You could have a flock of just roosters if you aren't worried about noise. Roosters will only attack eachother if they have to fight for hens, and you can get them for basically free because people don't need more than one if they have hens
@@yeet1066 Apparently you've never had game cocks. They will kill themselves to get through a knot hole to get to another rooster to kill him hen or no hen. 😁
Just hatched 4 Bielefelder chicks didn't see them on the list. Bread in the 1970s Germany. Bielefelder kennhuhn lay up to 360 eggs a year the bantam version lays about 160 eggs a year. Very docile great family chickens. very big!!
I have six novogens for eggs and wlrhough they are thr sweetest chickens to me they are super quick snd overwhelm the other breeds and are quite territorial.
Does anyone have Midnight Majesty Marans or Sapphire Olive Eggers? I have 2 of each that are 15 weeks old. Was wondering when they start laying and there production. Any feed back is much appreciated.
I love my Golden Comets. Such sweethearts and lay every day between the 3 of them. I also love my Dominique's because they are very curious and affectionate.
My favorite chicken breeds so far are Light Sussex, Silver grey Dorkings, Hedemoras and Delawares. I want to raise Basque hens, Sulmtalers ,Australorps and Malines. The only thing I don't like about Dorkings is their egg size. It is barely a medium egg.
You put Hrvatica on 100-150 section,but Hrvatica have average 240-260 eggs per year.And lots pictures of breeds are not correct(like Slovenian silver,you put white chicken)..
Have raised a lot of chickens over the years and my favorites are ISA Bowns. Good brown egg layers and very mellow personality makes them easy to care for.
Of all the different breeds I have owned for over 50 yrs, the isa browns are number one in my book for egg production and disposition. The ideal 236 breed produce more eggs but they are wild. I guess that is the white leghorn in them as they are a cross between white leghorn and australorpe
My ISA Brown was the most affectionate, cuddly hen I ever had. Followed me around all over the yard. Jumped up into my lap if I sat down. She was smart and understood a few words as well as her name. Came running if I called for her. Sadly she died from reproductive tract cancer.
You left out all the orpingtons. They lay lots of lovely brown eggs and love their humans. My son had one that ran to meet him every day when he got off the schoolbus💕 Another favorite of our family is the black sex link, my husband loved them because they were excellent at eating baby snakes every spring.
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Amazing birds that we take for granted, who have been feeding the human race with eggs and delicious chicken meat for thousands of years, in almost every native culture around the world. There is a really great book by Andrew Lawler called "Why Did The Chicken Cross The World?" which covers their fascinating history.
We have Buff Orpingtons and Rhode Island Reds. The Buffs are way to broody but the RIR's are great layers .Love them, they keep us well supplied with large brown eggs.
I have two hyline browns and one Australorp, cross hyline brown. One of the hyline browns has laid an 81gram egg, a few weeks later an 82 gram. Her eggs are often around 66 and 67gram. Her name is Gladys.
I just got into chickens about a year ago, and as a supplement give them organic worms and sun flower seeds as a snack..., and I let my 12 chickens forage over 1 acre of land every day...I feed them non gmo nonmedicated, non soy pure organic scratch feed daily...My 2 leghorns are laying about 350 eggs per year , my 2 Orphingtons are laying 320 eggs per year, I have a Red colored chicken that is laying around 315 eggs per year with a beautiful olive colored thick shell, and my Bard rocks and Americana's are laying 310 eggs per year...I must have gotten lucky because out of the 12 mixed breed chickens I bought at 4 months old , I don't have a single chicken that lays less than 310 eggs per year... Maybe they will slow down as they get older but right now they are happy egg laying machines that love me and my grand children and come running to us when they see us...
You have similar egg laying results to my own. My brown leghorns don't lay quite as many eggs as do the whites, but still lay even into old age more than 300 eggs, my Black Minorcas lay close to 300 eggs annually, Ameraucanas 300 to 320, Delawares are laying sometimes 2 eggs at once and straight through the coldest weather, so they are giving me over 300 eggs annually, and so on for all my breeds of chickens. Only the Brahma breeds lay about 200 eggs per winter thru early summer then go stubborn broody for 2 months! I really think a lot of the production depends on the feed and comfort of the hens.
My 7 chickens are laying 6 to 7 eggs a day also on a organic garden..They love the broccoli leaves and kale the most.. They eat a lot of tomatoes and extra zucchini also.. I do give a non gmo organic scratch ..You get out what you put in.
I feed similar to you and my Americana’s lay an eggs almost daily, with the high heat this summer, the production went down a bit, but with the temps cooling they are back to an egg a day.
fWhite Leghorn can lay more than 280 eggs per year. Infact, most of them can lay up to 300 or more. I've had a White Leghorn before and she lays almost everyday (except in the winter). The biggest problem about them is that they fly way too much! Her first few eggs was literally found under our neighbors (she flew over the fence and loved doing it) and she just kepting on visiting them.
I have 3 three-week-old white leghorn chicks and they are so flighty! They can already fly over 15" high out of their brooder and back in again when I lift the screen on top off. Meanwhile, my Australorp chick and Golden Comets of the same age are not flighty at all.
I love my leghorns. Great egg layers that lay large white eggs, have a small appetite and are typically healthy and low maintenance. They are not as cold hardy because of their larger combs but have done well in my area of zone 7a-b, only having to use extra protections during abnormal cold weather events. They thrive as Free-range birds since they enjoy foraging and their agility make them a little better at predator evasion and though mine only Free-range part time they give no issue returning to their safe enclosure and are usually the first to roost. They don't go broody or raise young well but that can be remedied with another breed like the one we have recently fallen in love with and that is the Buff Orpington, the Hens are more friendlier than the Leghorn Hens and a little hungrier too lol.
Living in the country I have noticed something over the years Hawks don't seem to go after the black chickens as much as they do the lighter colored ones I believe it's because they think they are crows or buzzards I don't know but that's why I have astraulorpe chickens good egg layers brooders and meat birds and friendly as can be
Had me some golden comets loved them one once laid a 3.6 ozer wow that must have hurt, her name was Jezabelle she would hang out with me while I was working the coop and run even land on my shoulder.
yep they are quite the friendly bird. I had 6 in my flock a few years ago and my father was visiting sitting outside in a lawn chair when the specks came up I got some bread and tossed it to him and on him and he had a lap full of chickens
I have some on order now with several other breeds for my mixed flock of about 200. I hope they are as good as everyone says. I live in the mountains in a pretty harsh climate so I really like hardy friendly birds.
These must be averages and somewhat situational. My chocolate Marans definitely put out more than the Marans listed here. My Ameracaunas really crank them out too. Had isa browns a while ago and they definitely lay in that 300 range and they were a bit more friendly and trusting of people than my marans or ameracaunas. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend any of these breeds. They all seem to do well here in MN.
Rhode Island Red is what I am most familiar with, but on the goat farm we didn't check to see their breed of chicken they were probably mixed breeds of chicken.
Ducks. Way better than chickens. Do not tear up the yard, eat slugs and eggs are just as prolific with less feed. Higher protein and more nutrient dense.
I used to have a leghorn hen. I thought I got an egg almost every day except for a few cold days in the winter. But I live in warmer climate, so the winter is short and not cold at all. And it seemed the leghorn delivered more than 300 eggs a year. But according to this, it's not at the top of the list. But hens that lay too many eggs a year don't live very long. It's too stressful on the body.
@@gypsyHAASy FYI: Cinnamon Queen chickens are a cross between a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Rhode Island White hen. I’m looking for to receiving my chic in March.
Not a very informative video. You could have left out the first several dozen jungle fowl and gotten down to breeds meant for egg production. You left out many quality American breeds and included obscure breeds nobody but African nomads will ever know.
Keep in mind, that most "breeds" around the 300-line are hybrids. So if you want to hatch your own chicks with them, their children won't lay nearly as much as their parents did.
Great video, but truely terrible music, had to mute it..... we have mix of isa browns, sussex and australorps plus a couple others. We love the egg size of sussex, when they are on full lay we get some massive eggs. To beautiful to eat tho, we love our girls.
I'm so glad I found this video!! I have raised some of these breeds before and researched many others. I have some Red Stars coming in soon and I'm very excited about this! Also I love the different shades that come from Americanas, such pretty eggs
I agree. That’s why I chose Orpington. The Astralorpes (spelling?) are the same type just black. They’re friendly, easy going, great eggers and meaty. Although I love my girls too much to eat the, lol.
I’ve never raised chickens, planning to soon. Great video, and thank you to all the commenters telling of their experience with favorite birds. Gives me more ideas to look into.
So hard to pick favorites! Lol I love my Sapphire Gems, my Australorps are delightful - reliable layers & love to be petted, my Polish are ditzy & funny, and I’m really looking forward to my Cream Crested Legbar pullets growing up to be beautiful hens,
My Cream Legbars are delightful - full of personality, very cute with their crests (I call their crests "hairdos") and bright colors,, and they reliably lay beautiful sky-blue large eggs every day.
5:09 polish chickens i believe aren't from Poland. The name comes from the hats of polish militants resembling the crests of polish chickens, also the polish chickens have many different names but they are believed to be from the Netherlands as depicted in their old paintings (i forgot what they're called). Also polish chickens can lay a lot of eggs once they get into the rythme of laying, we have 6 beautiful white crested black polish hens and they give us 3-4 egg daily, and we just added 4 more silver laced polish hens 2 days ago! 5 eggs harvested from 10 hens on the first day I'd say that's a keeper right there!
