Lohmann Brown

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Lohmann-Brown hen in hobby keeping

Lohmann Brown (LB) are a breeding line of domestic fowls from the EW Group company Lohmann Tierzucht . The name “Lohmann Brown” is registered in the German Patent and Trademark Office as a word and figurative mark for hatching eggs , day-old chicks , pullets and roosters, as well as poultry.

Lay hybrid

Laying hens for mostly industrialized poultry farming on specialized poultry farms are now hybrid chickens , i.e. cross-breeding products that cannot be bred. Lohmann Brown are a parent stock of laying hens that produce brown eggs , the brown layers .

Offspring of Lohmann Brown chickens are marketed under the trade names “Lohmann Brown Classic” and “Lohmann Brown Lite”.

  • Lohmann Brown-Classic are laying hens with medium-sized brown eggs that are marketed worldwide and should also be suitable for alternative husbandry, such as free-range husbandry . According to the product description, they lay up to 320 eggs in 12 months of laying or 405 in 16 months of laying. There are significantly less in floor housing . Lohmann Brown-Classic is the most common type of laying hen on European poultry farms for commercial egg production.
  • Lohmann Brown-Lite lay slightly smaller, marketable brown eggs in higher numbers. According to the product description, this is up to 325 eggs in 12 months of laying or 410 in 16 months of laying.

The Braunleger Lohmann Brown-Extra (which were specially optimized for large L and XL eggs) are no longer in the company's range.

The company is also working on laying hen lines especially for the organic market, which is becoming more important, these are called Lohmann Brown-Plus : The use of the classic Lohmann Browns is viewed critically because high-performance lines in organic nutrition particularly suffer from deficiency symptoms (self-exploitation), and too Feather pecking and cannibalism tend, which is why it is generally recommended to shorten the beak , a measure that is undesirable, especially in organic agriculture (but this can also be largely managed through husbandry methods). This line was optimized for better feed conversion, but is no longer offered.

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In Austria today, Lohmann Brown Classic are by far the dominant line of chicken in egg production, both in conventional and organic farming (organic proportion of eggs around 18%) - despite all efforts to promote old and domestic breeds. Contrary to the prevalence that the relevant organic guidelines do not prohibit hybrid chickens and that the market share of brown eggs in Austria is 90%. Here, however, emphasis is placed on particularly large eggs, which led to bottlenecks in the L / XL category and the development of the Lohmann Tradition laying hen line.

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  1. ↑ a b c Laying hens. (No longer available online.) In: ltz.de. Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, archived from the original on May 14, 2014 ; Retrieved March 26, 2014 (company product description). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltz.de
  2. ↑ Reg. Number 1049048 at the DPMA of May 30, 1983
  3. ↑ Lohmann Brown. (No longer available online.) In: ltz.de. Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, archived from the original on March 25, 2014 ; Retrieved March 26, 2014 (company product description). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltz.de
  4. ^ Lohmann Brown Classic. (No longer available online.) In: ltz.de. Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, archived from the original on March 26, 2014 ; Retrieved March 26, 2014 (company product description). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltz.de
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Lickeig: Comparison of the two laying hen lines Lohmann Selected Leghorn-Classic and Lohmann Brown-Classic under the conditions of the field trial with regard to behavior, health and performance in aviary systems . Munich 2006, Suitability of the Lohmann Selected Leghorn and Lohmann Brown hen lines for keeping aviaries, p. 6–8 ( edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2014] Inaugural dissertation to obtain a veterinary doctorate from the veterinary faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich).
  6. ↑ Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft [LfL] (Ed.): 9. Bavarian comparison of origins of laying hybrids in barn farming . Examination 2010/2011. 1st edition. Freising-Weihenstephan November 2011, Table 7: Laying performance and egg weight (496 laying hens per group were housed and checked), p. 15 ( lfl.bayern.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2014]).
  7. ^ Lohmann Brown-Lite. (No longer available online.) In: ltz.de. Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, archived from the original on March 26, 2014 ; Retrieved March 26, 2014 (company product description). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltz.de
  8. ↑ Lohmann Tierzucht (Ed.): Management Guide Laying Hens . Lohmann Brown Classic. Cuxhaven, Lohmann Tierzucht Produkte, p. 2 f . ( schropper.at [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2014]).
  9. ↑ a b Special hen line from Lohmann Tierzucht for organic egg production: A special chicken for organic farming. ( Memento of November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) In: SGZ 2/13, pp. 17–18, aviforum.ch.
  10. ↑ Savior of the chickens. ( Memento from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: greenpeace magazine 5.11.
  11. ↑ Clemens G. Arvay: Eat or die . Ecowin, Salzburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7110-0030-9 . Quoted from Michael Stadler: Hybrid chickens with an organic label . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 10, 2013 ( article archive ).
  12. ↑ a b Compassion in World Farming (Ed.): Laying hen case study Austria 1 . An account of the successful phasing out of beak trimming without increasing problems of injurious pecking . oA 2010 ( ciwf.org.uk [PDF] on market share, especially p. 7).
  13. ↑ a b Business Management Working Group, Walter Schneeberger, et al .: Eggs from organic agriculture - From production to consumers . Interdisciplinary project economics, final report. Ed .: Institute for Agricultural Economics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna. Vienna January 2002, origin of the hens and production cycle , p. 21st ff . ( wiso.boku.ac.at [PDF]).
  14. ↑ Austria has a world champion : eggs, potatoes and milk are the organic sellers. Communication from the Ministry of Life, September 24, 2013.
  15. ↑ Agriculture: Brown and white eggs are popular in this country . In blick.ch , March 28, 2009 (updated: February 7, 2012).
  16. ↑ about market: where are the big eggs? , topagrar.at, July 6, 2012
  17. ↑ Lohmann tradition. (No longer available online.) In: ltz.de. Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH, archived from the original on March 27, 2014 ; Retrieved March 29, 2014 (company product description). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ltz.de