What chicken breeds lay the most eggs?

[LonnieSimon]

Hello everyone,
Chicken is a very friendly and familiar animal to everyone. Chicken raising can bring us many benefits: we can eat eggs, we can eat chicken, ... Chicken also has many types, I don't know which chicken has the most eggs for me. can be raised to bring high economic efficiency?
Thanks everyone.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

As for breeds, Leghorn and Rhode Island Red are the most prolific followed closely by some great breeds.
There are hybrids that are even slightly more productive.
Anecdotally, the white Leghorn is a bit more productive than the 10 or more other varieties.
Here are two excellent breed comparison charts that give numbers for comparison.
http://www.albc-usa.org/documents/chickenbreedcomparison.pdf
ww.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/chooks.html
Those charts focus on true breeds but again, it doesn't take hybrids into consideration.
Over time, breeds change. Back in the 1920s, some breeders focused on getting more production out of Black Australorps with contests springing up all over Australia and ended up through selection of certain lines developed the champion hen. A single bird produced 364 eggs in 365 days.
They don't attain those numbers today but Leghorns can lay over 300 in their first year. RIRs can lay over 250 per year.
Minorcas, Dominiques, Delawares, Hamburgs, Fayoumis and Redcaps are all quite productive.

 

[BDutch]

Chickens are more than meat and egg factories. Chickens are living creatures with sense and feelings. So please take that into account too. Beside the feed, they need a safe place to roost at night (costs). But if you have more land then you need , it can be profitable , Especially if the chickens can free range so they need less layer feed.

The best layers in my country are the leghorn look a like - hybrids.

 

[Aapomp831]

Hello everyone,
Chicken is a very friendly and familiar animal to everyone. Chicken raising can bring us many benefits: we can eat eggs, we can eat chicken, ... Chicken also has many types, I don't know which chicken has the most eggs for me. can be raised to bring high economic efficiency?
Thanks everyone.

LEGHORNS - they lay prolifically and barely eat. Besides them, anything sex linked (ISA Brown, Cinnamon Queen, Golden Comet, Black Sex Link). These hybrids were created for the purpose of prolific egg laying. The downside -‘prolific egg layers are more prone to suffer from reproductive disorders and they typically don’t live as long as true breed chickens.

 

[The Moonshiner]

As far as economic efficiency you can't beat production white Leghorns.
Red Sex links are great too but they eat a bit more and have a shorter shelf life.

 

[cmobley]

I have golden comets and isa browns and they laid year round i even tried taking them away from the neighborhood lights to my farm 2 hours away where it gets alot darker i wanted their systems to take a break but it didn't affect anything they kept on popping em out so I brought em back home before they got ate by something. 6 hens 6 eggs a day 7 days a week and they started laying alot earlier i wanna say one started at 15 or 16 weeks.

 

[3KillerBs]

Commercial-strain Leghorns are hands-down the most efficient and prolific egg-layering chickens in existence.

For brown eggs, the commercial-strain Production Reds and various sexlinks are the most prolific.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Hello everyone,
Chicken is a very friendly and familiar animal to everyone. Chicken raising can bring us many benefits: we can eat eggs, we can eat chicken, ... Chicken also has many types, I don't know which chicken has the most eggs for me. can be raised to bring high economic efficiency?
Thanks everyone.

Are you interested in chickens for both eggs and meat? If you want both eggs and meat, you're looking at a lot of options. Personally, I have a laying flock and then annually we raise Cornish Cross (CX or Cornish X) meat chickens and butcher them all at once to fill the freezer. They are good for slaughter between 8-10 weeks of age, on average.

As other stated, for productive egg layers, Leghorns are one of the best, but even if you bred them, they are extremely lean, the amount of meat you'd get would hardly be worth the effort in my opinion. They have the best feed to egg conversion ratio, meaning they eat less feed to produce an egg than most other breeds. Keep in mind the older they get, the larger their eggs will be, the more likely they will be to lay double yolkers, and the more likely they will be to suffer vent prolapses, egg binding (egg stuck inside chicken), and reproductive cancers, all of which are deadly. You'll deal with those problems far more often than you will with many other breeds. There is nothing wrong with choosing this breed, as long as you are aware of the future of your flock. They lay white eggs.

If you choose a hybrid variety, they tend to be a little more meaty, nearly as prolific as leghorns, but they won't breed true if you have a rooster, but they are slightly less likely to have as many reproductive issues. They usually have a good feed conversion to egg ratio, but not as good as leghorns. Again, nothing wrong with this choice as long as you are aware of the issues you may face. They lay brown eggs.

Finally, you can choose a dual purpose breed (Sussex, Wyandottes, Orpingtons, barred rocks, brahmas, Delawares, etc.). These breeds tend to be hearty, the roosters are large and great for meat, and the hens are great egg layers, great for meat when they get older, and tend to have less health issues in the long-term. These breeds are great for a self-sustaining flock, tend to be excellent foragers, hearty to many climates, and more. They aren't the best at laying nor the biggest meat birds, but they are a great compromise to get the best of both worlds. Personally, I have some barred rocks and they lay huge eggs, usually about five a week, they tend to lay longer in the season, and they are friendly huge birds. These breeds also lay brown eggs.

Did this help you at all?

 

[snood dude]

I think black stars and leghorns are the best layers

 

[Aapomp831]

I think black stars and leghorns are the best layers

I looooove black stars