How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

[fuzzi]

Two eggs, when coupled with the four from yesterday means MY OLDER HENS ARE LAYING!

It's just been the three pullets laying these last few months.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Two eggs, when coupled with the four from yesterday means MY OLDER HENS ARE LAYING!

It's just been the three pullets laying these last few months.

How many olders do you have?

 

[Chicken_overlord]

I saw the photo, so beautiful breed and horrible name Deathlayers. I hope they are a hardy chicken and do not have reproductive issue.

Isa Brown should be named Deathlayers because they lay egg every day until they die from laying egg, but their life span is around 2 years in real life. They will start having reproductive issue around 1.5 years of age.

Apparently, their name was likely originally "day layer" in old German and slowly was changed into the name "deathlayer" over time. They lay about 200-250 beautiful white eggs a year. They're pretty fragile as chicks and juveniles (they don't handle illness well at that stage) but grow to be very hardy if you get them past the growing stage. Despite the myth behind their name, they don't lay to their death. They slow down like other chicken breeds as they age and they can live to be 10 years old, so they're pretty long lived. I've loved mine, she's a bit flighty, but is a sweetheart.

 

[Tookie]

33 total of eggs in the last 9 days. 8 chicken eggs and 25 duck eggs.

 

[Paz]

Hard to pronounce if you are not Dutch. It has the hard g-ch like in Scheveningen, a slight grunge. And the ij-ei that is not in your vocabulary either. Ei means egg btw.
The aa is long . As if you open your throat and say aaa for inspection by a doctor.
S-grunge-ndul-aaa-r
Listen to the pronunciation in video below.

Schijndelaar is a village in the Netherlands where this new breed was established. They are beautiful , light-green laying hens , originally white long tailed chickens.
Small crest. Pheasant like build.

If you like to to translate (google or AI) there are plenty Dutch articles online:

https://schijndelaar.jouwweb.nl/
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schijndelaar
https://schijndelaar.webnode.nl/

They created other colours in the region/city of Meierij where Schijndel belongs to .
A video in Dutch about the new black ‘Schijndelaar’, called Meierij chicken , which is completely black.

Yes, you see, my thought process was: if I read Dutch, I can understand it, because it is very similar to German, so I might as well pronounce it like I would. I should have known this was the wrong system to implement here, since the minute someone talks to me in Dutch, I can no longer understand a single word, so it must be pronounced completely differently…

 

[Paz]

Yes it is. I have had a good amount of ouch eggs. At 70 grams a chicken egg is said to be a jumbo egg so anything after that is definitely an ouch egg although at 70 grams it's a safe bet to say it's an ouch egg.

Really? It’s considered large where I live (65-73).
Edit: I understand in the USA you have what is called “jumbo”, we don’t.

 

[BDutch]

Isa Brown should be named Deathlayers because they lay egg every day until they die from laying egg, but their life span is around 2 years in real life. They will start having reproductive issue around 1.5 years of age.

Are you confused with what happens in factory farming?

True Isa Brown have a short lifespan. They live about 20 months in factory farming not bc of reproductive issues but they do stop laying around that time. Simply because they have their first serious moult around that time.

Costing more than expected profits in the future makes the farmers to sell all Isa Brown (or other high productive factory farming hybrids) to slaughterhouses.

People who buy Isa Brown as backyard chickens keep them longer most of the time. They are still good producers of eggs after the moult period. Isa Browns often get sick with an ovarian disease after 3-6 years and have a short lifespan for a chicken. But an average of only 2 years is only true if you count the abused and killed chickens too.

Many less productive breeds have a natural lifespan of about 10 years. Old breeds with a large gene pool and backyard mixes often lay up to the age of 8-10 and live several years more if they don’t disappear into a chicken soup or a stew. Or are eaten by predators.