jess1merlin Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 As we will be getting our cube soon, we have been looking around at chickens locally and we are unsure of the difference between the following brown hybris hens : ISA Brown, Bovan Goldline and Warren. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Isa Brown and Warrens are different names for the same chicken, its a Rhode Island Red Hybrid. I have one, and shes very affectionate but also quite cheeky too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 We have an Isa Brown and a Goldline and they are similar, the Goldline has paler feathers all over whereas the Isa Brown just had a pale ruff and tail. We also have a Columbian Blacktail who hasn't really got a blacktail just the odd feather. A lot of the brown hydrids have similar parentage I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Agree with the above, they are pretty much the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tink Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Not sure if this is right but when I was researching which girls to get I found that a ISA Brown was a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a Rhode Island White. I have a Warren and she is a Rhode Island Red crossed with a Light Sussex..... Am i right in thinking a ISA Brown is a kind of trademark name for RIR and RIW.... and a 'warren' is a RIR crossed with another breed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tink Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Knew I had seen something.... ISA stands for Institut de Sélection Animale, the company which developed the particular breed in 1978 for egg production as a battery hen.... Meant to say also...my warren is very friendly...cant comment on the egg production as, even after 3 weeks, not one of my 4 has given me any eggs yet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjp Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 ISA Browns and bovans are both owned by the same company all 3 plus the columbian black tails are all surpost to be RIR crossed with light sussex amber links are surpost to be RIR crossed with RIWhites Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexbex Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I have 3 warrens, they're great very friendly and good layers, I get an egg a day of each hen at the minute. Becki x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xScrunchee Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 My three brown hens (all gingernut rangers from Omlet) are completely different to one another. Rose is really, really light. More off white with light ginger. Brandee is really dark ginger with some black feathers in her tail and Jasmine is very much in the middle of both of them. Mid ginger with creamy bits. Wonder if Gingernuts are any hen that is ginger rather than RIR x light sussex!!? Rose and Brandee are also nearly twice the size of Jasmine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickvic Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 I have 2 Gingernuts, Opal has white tail feathers and around her leg and knickers, and Ruby is really red all over. My cousin had 2 Gingernuts that were white with a little bit of ginger on their wings and then had 2 more that were ginger with white on their wings All different! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmamakeup Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have a Warren (Berny) and she's a lovely chook - excellent layer and very friendly. She's quite a greedy and vocal one too when she's after treats and follows me around the garden until I give into her. She won't hesitate in snatching a biscuit out of my hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 I have a Warren (Berny) and she's a lovely chook - excellent layer and very friendly. She's quite a greedy and vocal one too when she's after treats and follows me around the garden until I give into her. She won't hesitate in snatching a biscuit out of my hand Exactly, our four are the same, show them a grape, pea or sweet corn and you'll get knocked down in the rush . They're all different in colouring her's Alice you can see the Rhode Island Red and White in her. Here she's doing an excavation job with Violet, Fern is about to join in Heather (coffee bum) is off rearranging the compost heap. Four chooks and four eggs a day at the moment. Spanish omelette tonight...... They all have white tips to their tails, so you can find them in the long grass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
