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Help with breeds for large sized eggs - utility pe (Read 1258 times)
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Re: Help with breeds for large sized eggs - utility pe
Reply #15 - Mar 2nd, 2010 at 8:54am
 
Thanks for all your suggestions - feeling really sad though as I have just found my elderly Black Rock laying on her side, sadly not asleep but dead.  She was fine yesterday - think it was just her time - wil miss her cheeky ways and the way she used to cock her head and look me in the eye when I spoke to her  Cry
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Re: Help with breeds for large sized eggs - utility pe
Reply #16 - Mar 8th, 2010 at 3:43pm
 
Hiya. I know it's quite late in the thread but i thought you maybe interested to know I hatched som IG x LS last year. The boys grow to a very impressive table weight in just over four months. Whilst the females of this cross don't get that big, they lay large duck sized eggs with giant lovely yolks. So if you like "one for the pot" I'd give these a try. Another p[lus is the hens are hard feathered with no fluffy bottom  Grin so examining cloaca is easily done too.
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Re: Help with breeds for large sized eggs - utility pe
Reply #17 - Mar 20th, 2010 at 3:30pm
 
our third year + assorted hens lay wapper eggs, especialy when they have had a bucket of scraps recently.
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