Extra Large And Jumbo Brown Eggs

[Duppydo]

Thanks everyone for your insight.

I've read the sex links lay really big brown eggs..I was hoping to hear from folk who have experience with my question and i did...thanks again...
I know someone with red star and black sex links...i was at there place and flipped out when they showed me a brown eggs that weighted 1/4lb...!!!They put it on an accerute scale, i couldn't believe my eggs, it was huge...!!
Now the question is, who layed that enormous egg..? One of the red stars or the black sexlink....hmmmmmm....lol

 

[All about the EGG]

SEX LINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have five, 2 black, 3 red. Egg laying machines. Oh yeah...friendly!

 

[Duppydo]

Thanks for the link DigitS, lots of good chicken info,but no mention of sex-links or their egg laying pattern/size...

 

[cmom]

Here is are some other good sites.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/BRKPoultryPage.html

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/info/poultrybreeds.php

https://www.backyardchickens.com/breedlist.php

http://www.mypetchicken.com/chickenBreeds.aspx

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

 

[Eliz]

I have 2 Black Sex-Links. One has been laying medium eggs for a month. Well we had a Thanksgiving Day surprise---A JUMBO EGG!!! Next day it was back to medium size.

Just wondering what happened there??

 

[digitS']

Eliz, was that a double yolk egg?

For fun, I looked a little at poultry science sites for information on sexlinks and egg quality. Wasn't much that I came across except for fairly early hybridizing information. . . . back in mid-20th century.

One thing was a pdf 1968 report from North Carolina State University at Raleigh including sex-link pullets (you can google those words and find the same report).

Some of these lines may no longer be available but, for the most part, the Babcock, Hy-line, Shaver, etc. lines are still out there and for comparison with simple hybrids, I think this can be useful. After all, these were all commercial flocks. One of the brown-egg hybrids may be fairly "high tech" (Golden Comet) but I think the Black Sex-links in 1968 and today are fairly straight-forward breed x breed.

In one trial:

The 2 sources of Black Sex-link (Rhode Island Red x Barred Rock) had eggs at 69% and 66% that were extra large and over.

The Hubbard Golden Comet (New Hampshire x synthesis production white) had eggs at 76%, extra large and over.

Average for all 20 sources tested was 52%, extra large and over.

At least in egg size, the 3 hybrids really outperformed the Leghorn-type strains. This isn't accounting for things like feed to egg ratios and egg production numbers - they were behind the Leghorns in those stats.

Steve

 

[klf73]

Quote:
If you are looking for dark eggs you don't want marans from a hatchery, you may get dark(ish) and you may not. If you want quality marans you will have to get them from a breeder. There are plenty here.......

ETA- there are plenty of threads with people talking about their hatchery marans, some didn't even get "pure" marans (or at least the leg color etc was wrong)

 

[Eliz]

gigits, not sure about the double yolk yet! I got that baby sitting in the frig like a noble prize!!

I guess we will have to eat it soon and I will let you know!

 

[digitS']

I just noticed that the thread title is "Extra Large And Jumbo Brown Eggs"
I guess I missed the mark again with that NCSU research report. The brown eggs were larger than the Leghorns' white eggs . . .

Steve

 

[Mahonri]

My red sex link is the only one of my girls that lays LARGE eggs... problem is, she doesn't lay that often.