what is the most popular chicken for quality egg production?
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A new Afghan business operating at Helmand’s Bolan Farm provides 30% of the eggs and 10% of the chickens eaten in the province, said Mohammad Asif Rahimi, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation & Livestock (MAIL).
“Helmand consumers buy fresh, 100%-Afghan chickens and eggs, and no longer rely so much on imports,” Minister Rahimi said. Afghan investors run the poultry business started on MAIL property by a USAID-funded project begun in 2007. ARAZI, MAIL’s land-lease agency, provided a five-year lease to the investors after a competitive selection process.
“The Bolan Poultry Farm is a proven economic success and now it is owned by Afghan investors, hiring Afghan workers and making delicious food for Afghan families,” Minister Rahimi said. “MAIL and USAID always wanted this project to be taken over by the Afghan business sector and this dream has become a reality.”
The farm can produce up to 90,000 chicks and 750 tons of feed per month. Five distributors, five poultry veterinary clinics, 70 city outlets and 50 outlets in rural districts of Helmand carry poultry products originating from the farm. At last estimate, these coordinated poultry farms supplied 40 percent of Lashkar Gah’s broiler market and 25 percent of its egg market.
“Last year Afghanistan imported more than 60,000 tons of frozen and live chickens, and 40 million eggs,” Minister Rahimi said. “This is unacceptable and needs to be stopped, replaced by Afghan poultry products, raised on Afghan farms by Afghan families, creating jobs and ensuring food-security across Afghanistan.”
“Consumers know that the most nutritious, safest and freshest food comes from here in Afghanistan,” Minister Rahimi added. “Projects such as this make our businesses stronger, and the food that they produce makes our children stronger.”
Question by k_erdahl: what is the most popular chicken for quality egg production?
i see many people have white leghorns others have buff orps, etc. i have broilers but want to do some breeding w/ the leghorns. just wondering for sales and stuff what would go the best (people want more). they are cage-free and are fed vegitarian diet. please explain your answer.
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i think America.
aysha kulthoom
June 2, 2013 at 10:58 pm
Get sasha. Their eggs are exelent and they put extra nutriens inside the eggs. (genetically improved)
Rami
June 2, 2013 at 11:32 pm
I have had Red Star layers, and they are fabulous. They are a sex-linked cross, so easy to sex. they lay well in winter and have a good feed conversion – but they are not very nice.
I have had Buff Orpingtons. The eggs are about the same production at the Red Stars, but the feed conversion is a little less good. They can be ranged better than Red Stars in a family yard though, because they are sweet.
I have had dark Cornish… Nice eggs, very resilient but MEAN.
This batch is Orpingtons.
Gina C
June 3, 2013 at 12:31 am
My grandmother raised chickens for most her 90 years and always swore by leghorns even though she also had barred Plymouth rock. She always fed them grain and laying pellets.
Troy E
June 3, 2013 at 1:08 am
Red Comets lay brown eggs,are medium sized, with good production and if you can free range them then the egg value increases about 25%.
Good luck
teddybear
June 3, 2013 at 1:37 am
Well this question is exactly where my specialty lies. Hi I’m Waine, the genral Poultryman at the largest poultry farm in the county, and we specialize in none other than breeding for sales. The white leghorn is in fact a very good egg layer, as their systems allow them to produce one large white egg a day, while in their prime, first 2 years however, another extreemly sufficent chicken for laying and breeding, is the Rhode Island Red. They will lay one red large egg day in their prime of 2 to 3 years. I say the Rhode Island Red is better because, for a reason i dont know, they seem to reproduce better, thereof more stock to sell.
If, Hypotheticly, you bought 100 straight run Rhode Island REd chicks this breeding season and…. 65 were hens, and ther rest were rosters, you could raise them to about 7 or 8 months old, at wich your hens should be laying. now at this point you have spent ap. 4.50 per bird to raise the bird, but if you sell all but 20 hens and, sbout 10 rosters, at 5 to 7 dollars each. Now yes this may not be a sufficent proffit, but it will grow. Each year you should keep 5 to 10 hens, and 3 or 4 rosters, so that yoou can expect your proffit to grow.
We started our farm only 3 years ago, and useing this stratagey, my first year, i mad only $ 15 that year. The next year we hatched the chicks, and raiserd them, and sold at the prices, and at auctions , and made $ 500, Next year, $ 1,000, our projected proffit for this year is if it all goes to plan, a proffit of $ 5,000. See the trend?
I hope this will help you out
sincerely, Waine
-YRPF general poultryman.
P.S. if you would like to contact me you may do so at yrbirdraisers@yahoo.com
waine
June 3, 2013 at 2:31 am
Leghorns are popular because they are prolific layers of large white eggs (which are popular in supermarkets) and lay year round and not all breeds do this. Their temperment, however, ranges from mild to aggressive in confinement. I can say that I do not like my leghorns and most of them have now been eaten. They’re more flighty and not as prolific as my rhode island reds (okay, they might be but the leghorns keep hiding their eggs so i can’t tell!). The rhode island reds are also noted for their large eggs which are brown and lay year round. They are noted for a calmer personality which i can vouch for. They’re very calm around the house and put themselves away on their perches each night. Unfortunately my remaining white leghorn insists on sleeping outside in the pine and i assume that at some point she’ll be dinner for an owl.
I used this chart to compare breeds before I bought and got the right breed for what i wanted. Hopefully it will help you decide: http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/dual.html
I looked mostly at the number of eggs represented, the size of the eggs, whether they layed year round and their temperment.
SC
June 3, 2013 at 3:25 am