Raise Older two years layer

After two years, the farmer will replace the hen. changging the hen in order to keep the production. Keep the old layer is not productive. After two yeasr the egg production is decrease and they have still feed them with some protion chciken feed. it is not profitabel for commercial gees.

in my country, the older hen, called as spunt is sold as meat. Most commercial farm sell the spunt to traditional or modern market. I ask gemini that the commercial farm does not use the spunt as the human food. I have ever eat the spunt and it is good but you need more time to cock because the thick skin and the hard meat.

The spunt is good for soup, stew, and other. You can also make stocks and broth from the sput. Boil the meat with some vegetable such as onion, prey, cabbage, tomato, and else.

In United States, sometimes they use spunt for cat or dog food. the chciken are stunized and processed by the engine. Sometime they got burial the older chicken off course after the chicken. death.

Today some farmer in my country use th spunt for layer too. They just raise for two weeks and they got benefit from some eggs. They know that the spunt is not productive as the layer . They also sell the meat too and get benefit from it. The spunt is cheaper than ayam kam;pung and the taste is almost similar to ayam kampung. Some people prefer Spunt than Ayam kampung, due to its cheap price.

Some farmer use the spunt for croes breed. They mate the layer with ayam kampung. The farm aim is to create the crosbreed that egg production is better than ayam kampung. They succesfully for that. Through , ayam kampung egg is small but it is more expensive than common chicken  eggs. They believe the ayam kampung’s egg is better than layer eggs. Some believe that the egg can cure certain diseases (off course, I do not believe it). 

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Castellana Negra : Black Spain Chicken that lays white eggs.

Castalena Negra is a prolific chicken from. Italy. It is also Mediterranean class. The chicken is raise for its egg. They lay 200-225 eggs a year. This chicken good layer too, while it is not famous as the great layer hen leghorn. 

The hen layer big white egg. aporrximately weighs 60 grams. This chicken also amaze me because it begin lays at forut to five months. Other chicken breed begin laying eggs at the five to six months. 

As suits its name, the color chicken is black with some green light color at the feather. The feather is thick. The chicken is slender body . The combs five point signle comb, which the hean have smaller comb than the rosters. The color earlobes are white, that is signed the hen lays white eggs. 

The chicken is rustic, which is a hardy chicken. It is good for your backyard pen. They Ara adaptable to unfriendly climate. The chicken has foraging ability.

Ancona Chicken : A Good layer of Mediterranean Chicken

 The Ancona Chicken is a famous of Mediterranean chicken class. The chicken is a prolific egg-laying that can lays at least 220 eggs a year. as the Mediterranean class, the bird is hardy and rustic. they are adaptable to unfriendly climate. 

The chicken is medium size with slender appearance. The rosters weight 2,5 -2,8 and then hen 1,5 to 2,1 kilograms. 

This chicken color is black with white mottled. The Ancona is famous with this color. In, Australia also found chestnut color and in The origin Italy also found the blue color. 

The chicken is the layer purpose. This chicken is also parent of some chicken layer. Ancona is a calm and friendly chicken, so it is a good choice for your backyard pen. 

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White earlobe’s chicken lays white eggs

My father said that the chicken that has white earlobes lays white egg shell. I thought it was true because some white earlobe’s chicken lays white eggs. For example, the famous chicken layer hen Leghorn which has white earlobes lays white shell eggs.

I also read that some white earlobes chicken lays white eggs such as houdan, campine, and else. I thought that my father was right. Then, I search some article chicken to make sure. I remember that the red Jungle fowl (Gallus Gallus) does not lay white eggs but brown. The red jungle fowl also has white earlobs.

The earlobes color of the chicken is not same to the egg shelled, meaning it is not a sign of the egg shell. The chicken that lays brown eggs has no brown earlobes. The Ameraucana that lays green or blue shelled egg also has no blue or green earlobes.

In my country people do not like white egg shell. They are prefer to brown color than the whte. That is why chicken farmer in my country do not raise white leghorn. They raise Hissex or Rhode Island as the layer hen.

Ancona : A good white egg layer chicken

Ancona chicken is a famous chicken in United States. It domesticated at Ancona, Italy. This Mediterranean bird is a game bird, or ornamental bird. Like their brother in Italy, Leghorn, this bird is slim. Both Ancona and leghorn has same ancestors. It has closely feather. The bird has been imported to England in mid 19th century. US people called the bird as mottled leghorn because they did not know Ancona.

The color of bird is black dark. Some bird has mottled black color. It has a red single comb, while the cock has bigger than the female. There is a white spot behind the ear or earlobes. Some Ancona has rose comb.

Ancona male is 6.6 lbs in weight; while, the male is 4.5 lbs. The bantam is smaller. Ancona bantam cock is 26 oz; while, the hen is 22 0z.

The shank and feet is black in color and featherless. The toe of the breed is four like most chicken (three in front and one in back). The cock has long flowing tail.

This bird is prolific chicken too. The hen can lay 150 - 190 eggs a year. The eggs is white color. Some hen also lay hint color eggs. This is the good layer that can still lay in the winter.You can consider this bird as layer.