They are also excellent foragers and are great help eating insects in and out of the garden! They are pretty smart and not shy, so they will come running whenever you come to see them. They are also great to raise if you have children since they are more tolerant and less flighty than other breeds. The fact that they are so docile makes the Golden Comet one of the best chicken breeds for beginners to raise. She will lay 6-7 eggs a week for close to 3 years. The golden comet can start laying eggs as young as 16 weeks. This makes them a favorite with hatcheries as many people only buy pullets. They are a sex-link breed which means the males and females are easily distinguishable at hatch. They lay better in winter than most other breeds I've raised! They were originally created for factory farms but have moved into backyard chicken keeping in the last 15 years or so. Over the years they have been selectively bred to lay more often and be less broody. Golden comets are buff colored chicks that become a gold or a cinnamon colored adult with some variation of lighter feathers in the tail.Īctually, I have seen pictures of golden comets with a few black feathers in the tail, but none of mine ever had that.Ĭomets fall into a category called 'production' egg layers. I couldn't tell them apart yet and I wanted something different. I had hatched a bunch of black copper Marans and they all looked like little ravens. Next to the Rhode Island Red chicken, the Golden Comet can definitely hold their own in egg production.I bought my first comet at a feed store and the only reason I picked her was because I wanted a colorful chicken. Their amazing egg laying ability has made them one of the breeds that produce the commercial brown eggs that supply grocery stores all across the county. The eggs of this chicken breed are brown shelled and extra-large or usually large in size. When you add a Golden Comet hen to your flock, you can expect her to lay an egg almost every day during her peak laying years. This breed was intentionally bred to be an hen producing egg at an high rate. In effect, to maintain your flock, you will need a few New Hampshire roosters and a flock of White Rocks. So, if you want to “create” a Golden Comet, this is the pairing you need. Remember, that the original pairing was a New Hampshire rooster over a White Rock hen. As you will not get Golden Comet chicks from Golden Comet hens, the offspring will be cross breeds. So, if you would like to hatch some chicks, then you will have to use an incubator. They will rarely go broody (not their fault as this has been bred out of them). The former hens will continue to lay but egg production will more than likely reduce significantly. At that period, if you would love to continue receiving eggs on a frequent basis from the Golden Comet breed, you will need to introduce new pullets to the gang.
They are able to churn out a big 330 eggs per year- that’s almost an egg on a daily basis.įrom the moment the hens begin laying, they’d lay to around 2/3 year, after which egg production will drop slowly till it ceases. Each week, they can lay between 5-6 eggs which puts them shoulder-to-shoulder with the Rose Island Red hen. Golden Comets are great layers of medium to large brown eggs. It happened real fast to a friend’s Cinnamon queen chicken pullet and a few days later, they began laying their eggs. The eggs will be of course be smaller when they are pullets, but will become bigger as they grow.Ī fireproof way of telling that a pullet is reaching maturity and ready to begin egg laying is when the waddle and pink comb become dark red. This chicken breed was created as a result of intentional mating between a New Hampshire rooster and a White Rock hen.Īt times, some or all of these names are used interchangeably which often confuses people and each hatchery might have a different name for their “line” of sex link birds.Īs early as 16 weeks, the Golden Comet can begin laying eggs. If you live in an area (like NYC) where roosters are not allowed, sex link chickens are your best bet of having all girls with no “cuckuroo” in the pack. This is an important trait for hatcheries based in the US, as it means that the hens can be kept for egg laying and the males are unfortunately disposed of (unless needed). On the other hand, A sex link chicken is a bird is easily sex-able at hatching this means that it is easy to tell the females from males. Now, if you mate a pure breed chicken with its’ own kind, the chicks produced from the mating will look the same as their parents. It is an “hybrid” chicken or an hybrid chicken. The Golden Comet is a sex linked chicken.Ī sex link is not actually a “breed” in the real in the true sense of the word.
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