Isa Brown X Isa Brown offspring/Chick colour white and lay dark brown egg

[SkyAJK]

My Isa Brown rooster X Isa Brown hen =the offspring is an angel white feather hen that is now laying a dark brown egg.

She is 6 months old, beautiful, calm, friendly, smart and independent.

Here are the photos of her parents, herself and her dark brown egg.

I read on the internet that Isa Brown is a production layer chicken and thus breeding them will only bring result of more reproductive ill health as Isa Brown known for due to excessive egg laying.

I would love to hear about your experience with having Isa Brown X Isa Brown.

 

[ChookaPete]

Aww! What is her name?


I have no experience with ISA Brown chickens. I do have Hy-Line hybrid chickens though. I currently have some heritage breed fertile eggs in an incubator, and if they hatch I hope I get some roosters to mate with the Hy-Lines, to see what types of chooks I get.

 

[SkyAJK]

Is Hy-Line a production layer?

Her name is Adzuki and she is a production layer hybrid - Isa Brown off spring.

Her parents are both hybrid and I was told that it is bad to breed them as they will bring over reproductive ill health. It was an accident that she was hatch by mother hen. I do fear the highly likely ill health to come.

I had an 1 year old hen from Isa brown rooster X silver laced Wyandottee. She is beautiful, but after 4 months of egg laying she is having internal laying issue - I am guessing because she stopped laying but keep on sitting in the nest box, but no egg comes out of her and rather big abdominal. I am seeking help for her on BYC.

I hope you get your rooster, I heard 50% of hatching are rooster .
I did hatch 2 eggs and 1 of them was a rooster.

 

[ChookaPete]

Is Hy-Line a production layer?

Her name is Adzuki and she is a production layer hybrid - Isa Brown off spring.

Her parents are both hybrid and I was told that it is bad to breed them as they will bring over reproductive ill health. It was an accident that she was hatch by mother hen. I do fear the highly likely ill health to come.

I had an 1 year old hen from Isa brown rooster X silver laced Wyandottee. She is beautiful, but after 4 months of egg laying she is having internal laying issue - I am guessing because she stopped laying but keep on sitting in the nest box, but no egg comes out of her and rather big abdominal. I am seeking help for her on BYC.

I hope you get your rooster, I heard 50% of hatching are rooster .
I did hatch 2 eggs and 1 of them was a rooster.

Thank you!


I hope your Wyandotte cross gets better.

 

[ChookaPete]

Is Hy-Line a production layer?

Yes, Hy-Line International (based in Iowa, USA) produces exclusive Red Sex Link and White Sex Link chicken breeds specifically for egg laying.

However they also make a great backyard chook that is friendly, generally calm, curious, and most of all are my loving pets! Mine lounge in the dirt and free-range in the grass and garden all day! As well as lay me eggs every day apart from the once-in-a-blue-moon break.

Hy-Lines are the only chicken breeds available to me, from the local stockfeeds shop. There is a heritage chicken breeder though just over half an hour away who sell fertile eggs.

 

[SkyAJK]

Right, I think Isa Brown created the same purpose like Hy-Line, for egg laying and they are producing eggs that sell in the supermarket.

Yes, I found Isa Brown very friendly and loving like your Hy-Lines. I do love their personality so much. They communicate by sound, action, and through their eyes.

All my heritage breed do not lay egg every day at all. I am lucky if get 4 eggs out of each heritage breed. On average they lay 3 eggs a week and then go broody so often. I would say they lay eggs only for 6 months in total, in between they take a break a few months here and there with their molting and endless broodiness.