Does any body know what I should get. I hear they both lay well , but the Golden comets are a bit better, is this true? I am MOSTLY looking for production but I am also looking to show. Any ideas would be VERY helpful. I have barred rocks,austerlorps,r.i.r's and they seem to be excelent layers of brown eggs are the wyandottes or the golden sexlink any better?

thanks,
David Elliott

Golden Comets are eggsellent producers, however they are not a purebreed but a cross, so showing wouldn't be applicable. Silver Laced Wyandottes are better layers than GLW and would make a nice show bird. Check out this hatchery site's info on the different breeds and how well they lay and what size and color eggs:

www.ideal-poultry.com

Dear anonymous,
Are the G.L. wyandottes any good for production. I visited Ideal's site and they said they were "good"
layers. You see, I have never had any wyandottes or
golden comets before. My sexlink red stars are probably my best brown egg layers. On the white egg side my leghorns and hamburgs are at the top.


thanks

Your sex-linked red stars and golden comets are one in the same. They are different hatchery names for the sex link crosses of production Leghorn and production Rhode Island Red stocks. I have made them myself from production Leghorns and Exhibition Rhode Island Reds, and they were excellent layers. My Exhibition Reds also lay as well as production stock, due to several years of selection. Hatchery-grade GLW will never be as productive, nor with showing be an option. Stick with the crossbred production birds for layers, if that is your interest, and buy exhibition stock for show birds.

I have tried to breed golden sex links birds without success. When they reach laying age the eggs get bound up and they die. It has happened to 8 birds all from different flocks and different times. This has never happened to any other breed I have tried. What can I do to prevent this and what other bird lays large white eggs. I have chickens for a hobby. At the most 10 birds of all different breeds.

Silver Laced Wyandottes do make excellent layers of large, brown eggs. GLW are also good layers, but the SLW tend to lay better. SLW & GLW are very beautiful birds, and often do well in shows, theough the SLW usually place higher than the GLW.