TOP BREED
Lohmann Brown
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LAYER STRAINS · LOHMANN BREEDERS
The most widely used layer in Pakistan. Brown eggs, long productive life, and a well-documented 72-week cycle.
Best for
Commercial brown-egg production, cage or free-range.
What it is called, and how common it is
Asked for in the mandi as
Lohmann · layer murghi · brown anda wali murghi
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At a glance
- Eggs to 72 weeks
- 300–320
- First egg
- ~19 weeks
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Housing
- Cage or free-range
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Consistent, well-documented production across a full cycle
- Good feed conversion for egg mass
- Adapts to both cage and floor systems
Trade-offs
- Needs consistent nutrition and lighting to hit published figures
- Brown eggs are not always the premium product in every local market
In Pakistan
The default commercial layer across Pakistan. Feed programmes, cage systems and vaccination schedules in the local market are largely built around it.
Other layer strains
Sources
- Comparison of performance, meat quality and profitability of Cobb, Hubbard and Ross broiler strains
- Comparative growth and meat yield of Arbor Acres, Cobb 500 and Lohmann broiler strains
- Laying characteristics and egg geometry of four varieties of indigenous Aseel chicken in Pakistan
- Poultry Research Institute, Punjab — conservation and improvement of poultry breeds
- ZTBL — financing for Golden/Misri chicken poultry farming
- Comparative performance of Naked Neck, Black Australorp and their crossbreds