chickens in the basement

These chicken breeds seem to be localized breeds or a different name from established breed names in English, I had to do some googling so I can't guarantee the accuracy but this is what I found.

Egg Colors

Brestgall - Can not find any information. If you had a picture I might be able to confirm that it is a talking about a Bresse maybe?
Adler - Brown Eggs
Amrox (Old World variation of Plymouth Rock) - Light Brown
Livenskaya (Multiple spellings found. Livensky, Livensky Calico, Livenskaya Calico) - Whiteish Yellow

Timothy Norton wrote:These chicken breeds seem to be localized breeds or a different name from established breed names in English, I had to do some googling so I can't guarantee the accuracy but this is what I found.

Egg Colors

Brestgall - Can not find any information. If you had a picture I might be able to confirm that it is a talking about a Bresse maybe?
Adler - Brown Eggs
Amrox (Old World variation of Plymouth Rock) - Light Brown
Livenskaya (Multiple spellings found. Livensky, Livensky Calico, Livenskaya Calico) - Whiteish Yellow

Thank you, you absolutely accurately described the breed, here is a description of the Bress-Gall photo in the attachment.  I am currently building a chicken coop in the yard and will move the chickens into the coop in the spring.  In order not to have the brooder idle in the basement, I will buy an incubator and want to buy eggs from hens that lay colored eggs, preferably green or blue.  the only breed that I know (my friend has it) is Legbar, but this meat is an egg breed. Maybe you can tell me a breed that lays colored eggs and is purely egg-based.

Hi Bogdan,
I'm not sure the availability of these breeds where you are, but here is a nice chart that Purina put out about breeds and colored eggs.

Matt McSpadden wrote:Hi Bogdan,
I'm not sure the availability of these breeds where you are, but here is a nice chart that Purina put out about breeds and colored eggs.

Thank you, an excellent list of what I was looking for, we have these breeds on the market, but incubation is necessary to obtain quality, so I will buy an incubator.  Now I will look for chickens with the biggest eggs)

This is my first year with an incubator. I highly recommend them! I have an old Hovabator that only has a heating element and a spiffy new-ish one with an egg turner and fan.

I raise Dorkings, which can be hard to find, and my laying flock is getting older. They're (my laying flock - mixed chickens of various types) mostly brown egg layers, though I have 1 Ameraucana that will lay a beautiful jade green egg once a week or so. She's 5 years old, so I'm thrilled she still lays. The Dorkings lay an "off-white" egg that looks either cream or a very very light tan/brown and tends to be a medium sized egg (49-55g each).

The largest eggs tend to be laid by Mediterranean breeds - Leghorns and those related to them. Welsummer, Barnevelder and hybrids with them, and many hybrid layers will lay you a nice large egg. There are some new breeds that have been developed to lay a green or blue egg, and to do so in large numbers and good sized, so you might check to see what's in your area for that. I like having Ameraucanas in my laying flock because I think they're personable chickens, but some people don't like them for different reasons. They lay a large medium sized egg - it might be medium, it might be large - it all depends on what their parents were like.

According to a website from Europe, the best large egg layers available are hybrids with different names and different appearances. Same everywhere, I guess.
Best of luck finding a perfect breed!

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Kristine Keeney wrote:This is my first year with an incubator. I highly recommend them! I have an old Hovabator that only has a heating element and a spiffy new-ish one with an egg turner and fan.

I raise Dorkings, which can be hard to find, and my laying flock is getting older. They're mostly brown egg layers, though I have 1 Ameraucana that will lay a beautiful jade green egg once a week or so. She's 5 years old, so I'm thrilled she still lays.

The largest eggs tend to be laid by Mediterranean breeds - Leghorns and those related to them. Welsummer, Barnevelder and hybrids with them, and many hybrid layers will lay your a nice large egg. There are some new breeds that have been developed to lay a green or blue egg, and to do so in large numbers and good sized, so you might check to see what's in your area for that. I like having Ameraucanas in my laying flock because I think they're personable chickens, but some people don;t like them for different reasons. They lay a large medium sized egg - it might be medium, it might be large - it all depends on what their parents were like.

According to a website from Europe, the best large egg layers available are hybrids with different names and different appearances. Same everywhere, I guess.
Best of luck finding a perfect breed!

thank you for your help, this is very valuable information for me

The clings feel great, once a day I open the window opposite the brooder and ventilate the room, I also turn the litter a little with a pitchfork once a day, there is practically no smell.  I put a bowl of ashes from the oven into the brooder and collected dandelion leaves, doused it with boiling water and mixed it with millet, which was poured with boiling water.  I’m also preparing a place for a chicken coop, the chicken coop will stand near a wooden fence (which will be the back wall) where the thuja measures 2.5 meters by 1.6 meters in height.

I put a bowl of ashes under the lamp for now so that they get used to it, then I’ll put it in the far corner, one of them has a bald butt, is this normal or not?
Is it possible to use reed arundo for bedding?

Hi,
regarding bedding: I use whatever non-toxic organic material I have access to for adults, for chicks I am a bit more careful that it does not cut them.

Regarding incubators: there was someone selling home-made, foldable incubators from Ukraine before the war. Now they only sell lamps and greenhouses, no incubators anymore. I haven't tried their system, but you could get it at 12, 24 or 250 V if I remember well, you could therefore hook it up to a battery for cases of downed electricity. Maybe you can contact them and ask for it? I think it was here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BroodyStore/sold?ref=pagination&page=1
I built a home made incubator once, which had a higher hatching rate than the expensive commercial one. The disadvantage was that I had to turn the eggs by hand.

An alternative to an incubator is to get a few chickens well known for going broody, like Wyandottes for example.

All the best

hans muster wrote:Hi,
regarding bedding: I use whatever non-toxic organic material I have access to for adults, for chicks I am a bit more careful that it does not cut them.

Regarding incubators: there was someone selling home-made, foldable incubators from Ukraine before the war. Now they only sell lamps and greenhouses, no incubators anymore. I haven't tried their system, but you could get it at 12, 24 or 250 V if I remember well, you could therefore hook it up to a battery for cases of downed electricity. Maybe you can contact them and ask for it? I think it was here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BroodyStore/sold?ref=pagination&page=1
I built a home made incubator once, which had a higher hatching rate than the expensive commercial one. The disadvantage was that I had to turn the eggs by hand.

An alternative to an incubator is to get a few chickens well known for going broody, like Wyandottes for example.

All the best

thank you for your help, the neighbors trimmed the orchard and therefore I have a large number of cherry and apple tree branches from which I will make wood chips using a chopper, I will leave the arundo for the chicken coop and I will also chop it.  Regarding incubators, electricity was very bad last year due to missile strikes, sometimes there was no electricity for several days, so our manufacturers began making incubators with battery backup.  I chose 2 incubator models, each has its own advantages, the first has automatic egg turning, the second has a fogging function to regulate humidity and control via wi-fi and mechanical egg turning.  But I don’t have a chicken coop yet) and now there is a problem with the availability of high-quality hatching eggs.  Therefore, for now I will prepare a chicken coop for the existing chickens.  And at the same time look for hatching eggs.