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Chicken Breeding

Common Breeds of Chickens

Literally, there are hundreds of chicken breeds to choose from for whatever you’d like one for: eggs, meat, or a pet. Choosing a chicken for your backyard flock can seem difficult, with all of the choices in beautiful exotics, excellent egg layers, and dispositions that there are.

Top Egg Laying Breeds of Chicken

Although all chickens lay eggs, not all will lay every day from the day they are four to five months old to the age of four years. The trade off with egg layers is that they are often not brooders, so to raise chicks, you’ll need an incubator.

Read Chicken Coop Plans if you are considering building your own chicken coop.

Top white egg layers are:

Redcap – Wild, poor disposition

Minorca – Moderate disposition, can be friendly but considered nervous

Leghorn – Noisy, nervous, shy

Lakenvelder – Beautiful breed, nervous

Holland – Good disposition, Friendly

Hamburg – Nervous, shy

Catalina – shy, nervous

Andulasian – Flighty, can be nervous

Ancona – Nervous Disposition, Wild

The top brown egg layers are:

Australorp – Good disposition, friendly

Java – Friendly, Exotic

naked Neck Turkin – Good disposition

Plymouth Rock – Good disposition, friendly, docile

Rhode Island – Aggressive

Delaware – Good disposition

Dominique – Good egg production and personality, will also brood.

Sussex – Good disposition, friendly

Wyandotte – A favorite egg layer because of their friendliness.

Best Meat Chickens

The primary goal with meat production are hens that put on a good bit of weight in the first sixteen weeks of life. For most, because they are not expected to be long-lived, the breed’s personality is not as important as with egg layers that you deal with on a daily basis for years. Good meat producers are:

Cornish – Poor egg layers, thin-feathered and must be protected from cold

Cornish Cross – Hybrid with fast growth. Prone to heart attacks, broken legs, etc..

Some breeds are considered good dual-purpose birds with a balance of egg laying and growth. Most of these breeds will lay between 4-5 eggs per week.

Araucana

Australorp

Barnevelder

Brahma – Very nice to look at, though not a top layer this chicken lays a respectable mount of eggs and makes a great pet, too.

Buckeye – a heritage breed

Catalina – A dual purpose bird that is also a top layer.

Delaware

Dominique

Dorking

Holland

Hungarian Yellow

Orpington

Plymouth Rock

Wyandotte

There is a nearly limitless variety when you consider color combinations of the available chicken breeds, so whether you are looking for a few chickens for a backyard flock for eggs, or are interested in a small business selling eggs, there is something for you.

Pet or Ornamental Breeds

Disposition of the breed is important if you’ll be interacting with your hens regularly. Collecting eggs from aggressive birds is a challenge. If children will be involved, breed disposition is even more important.

Probably the most popular breed for pets are silkies. They must be kept warm and dry. Their feathers are more like fur than feathers, really. Upon getting wet, they are instantly drenched.

These cute, small, Bantams are fun to look at and are very good pets. They enjoy being picked up and carried by both small children and adults. This tiny docile chicken will both lay eggs and tend the nest. The eggs are as good to eat as any chicken egg, are about 1/3 the size of one standard egg.

Other ornamental chicken breeds are:

Serama – A tiny perfect miniature chicken. Proud upright stance in a 2-3 pond package. Very good disposition.

Showgirls – These chickens have fluffy feathers on their body and the top of their head but a bare neck.

Sizzle or Frizzle – These hens have curly or wavy feathers and look like they have been through a windstorm.

Sultan – Has a “hat” of upright feathers – fluffy and fancy

Yokohama – another long tailed breed

Phoenix – Very long tail feathers that require special roosting conditions – very beautiful

Cochin – Both standard and Bantam Cochins are considered ornamental, but they are fair egg layers. They are very docile and beautiful with full long feathering and a waterfall type tail. Their feathers make them look twice as big as they actually are. The feathers go all the way down to their toes.

It’s very important that you research the various breeds and consider which will fit your needs best.

For much more info on the subject, view Chicken Breeds.

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