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A Lohmann Brown hen. The Lohmann Brown is a brown variety of chicken, specifically bred for egg-laying purposes. It is a crossbred line [1] and is selectively bred from lines of the Rhode Island breed. [2] They start to lay eggs at about 19 weeks and produce up to 320 eggs up to an age of 72 weeks (one year production).
The ISA Brown is a crossbreed of chicken, ... It is known for its high egg production of approximately 300 eggs per hen in the first year of laying. [2] History
Remaining animals are either a part of combined breeding with hens being partly on litter and partly on lattice, or a part of typical barn breeding with free-run chickens. [2] The Slovenian Brown Hen is primarily a layer hen [3] that lays brown coloured quality eggs [2] [6] weighing in average 61 grams. [7]
Kemp is one of many people across the country who are counting their lucky stars that they have egg-laying chickens, aka hens, right now, as consumers cope with egg shortages and shell-shocking ...
But as eggs travel through hens’ oviducts during the reproductive process, some breeds deposit pigments that change the color of the egg shells. Brown eggs. Generally laid by red or red-brown ...
The egg-laying performance of Australorps attracted attention when in 1922–1923, a team of six hens set a world record by laying 1857 eggs for an average of 309.5 eggs per hen during a 365 consecutive day trial. These figures were achieved without the lighting regimens of the modern intensive shed.
The farm currently produces about 350 brown eggs daily but expects to bump that up to over 1,000 brown eggs a day after receiving a delivery of more than 700 pullets (or young hens) on this month.
Orpington hens lay about 180 light brown eggs per year, with an average weight of 53 g; [8]: 158 [15]: 66 bantam hens lay about 110 eggs, with a weight of some 40 g. [16]: 67 It was said that at one time Orpingtons were capable of laying as many as 340 [5]: 115 eggs per year. The decline in production was due to breeders selecting for looks ...