beefandsleep
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The brown egg layers are a sex linked cross so cheap and easy to sex at hatch. I think white leghorns need vent sexing so more time consuming and skill required =£
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You've got your numbers the wrong way round the 404 was the brown bird 606 the white.Personally , I think Thornbers of Mytholmroyd had more to do with the fashion in egg colour in the past than anybody . They developed the hybrid 404 s, a white Leghorn type, which , in the right hands was an egg laying machine , and they laid white eggs , which could be produced under intensive conditions ie batteries , cheaper than anything seen before . They also produced the 606 hybrid , a RIR type that produced brown eggs but not as prolifically , and not as cheaply . In the days of "the packer " who simply bought eggs by grade , not colour , the 404 was the "go-to " for commercial producers . Latterly of course public perceptions have changed and brown eggs are the norm . However , one of my extended family works for a supermarket and tells me that white eggs are having a come back . "Plus ca change " an' all that .
Number 15 on the yolk colour fan.Clarence Court organic Leghorns are white shell with bright orange yolks fab eggs when Im desperate for eggs because my birds are too busy enjoying life!
Senior moment again . I think Charlie , your neighbour in Netherton (?) would have been instrumental in supplying many , if not most , of the pullets in this area anyway . Wasn't he said to be the biggest pullet rearer in the North ? Spare time orchid grower , and turkey rearer too , and well known "character ", and now his S in Law , Leslie is carrying on with the farm shop .You've got your numbers the wrong way round the 404 was the brown bird 606 the white.
In the end the biggest threat to the brown egg market in the UK came from the Canadian Shaver breeding company with the Shaver 288, supplied in the north By Maple Leaf Hatcheries in Chorley.
white free range eggs can still be got in a few shops, think there is a certain religion that wants it but im not sure,