Chicken Breeds
Chickens
Breeds:
-LIGHT SUSSEX CHICKEN BREEDS: The Sussex is an attractive little bird and makes a good all-round farm fowl. It is a good layer of cream eggs. 260-280 eggs per year. So not a bad egg layer. -RHODE ISLAND RED CHICKEN BREEDS: The Rhode Island Red Chickens are prolific egg layers of medium brown eggs. Relatively hardy, they are probably the best egg layers of the dual purpose breeds. Reds handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions better than other breeds and still continue to produce eggs. 200-250 eggs a year. -LEGHORN CHICKEN BREEDS: These are probably the best laying chickens around, besides the Rhode Island Breeds. They are prolific egg layers of white eggs. A small, spritely, noisy bird with great style, that like to move about. Leghorns are good foragers and can often glean much of their diet from ranging over fields and barnyards. Leghorns are capable of considerable flight and often roost in trees if given the opportunity. Leghorns lay more than 300 eggs a year.
Many chicken keepers will keep Leghorns as their main flock, but then they will also keep and American breed of chicken as well. This is because American chicken breeds will often lay throughout the winter, while the Leghorns won't. During the summer, the Leghorns are better layers than the American breeds.
My personal pick for good laying hens is any of the following 4 chicken breeds that are cross-bred with each other:
White Leghorns- Mediterranean breed Rhode Island Reds- American breed Light Sussex- White Wyandottes- American breed
Rhode Island Reds, crossed with White Wyandottes makes another excellent cross-breed for chickens.
There are 3 things that guarantee eggs every day:
* Meat in their diet every day if they don't have access to the outside
* Greens in their diet every day
* A sprinkling of cayenne pepper in their food every day
Other hens may need a different treatment. The best way I know to break a
Breeds:
-LIGHT SUSSEX CHICKEN BREEDS: The Sussex is an attractive little bird and makes a good all-round farm fowl. It is a good layer of cream eggs. 260-280 eggs per year. So not a bad egg layer. -RHODE ISLAND RED CHICKEN BREEDS: The Rhode Island Red Chickens are prolific egg layers of medium brown eggs. Relatively hardy, they are probably the best egg layers of the dual purpose breeds. Reds handle marginal diets and poor housing conditions better than other breeds and still continue to produce eggs. 200-250 eggs a year. -LEGHORN CHICKEN BREEDS: These are probably the best laying chickens around, besides the Rhode Island Breeds. They are prolific egg layers of white eggs. A small, spritely, noisy bird with great style, that like to move about. Leghorns are good foragers and can often glean much of their diet from ranging over fields and barnyards. Leghorns are capable of considerable flight and often roost in trees if given the opportunity. Leghorns lay more than 300 eggs a year.
Many chicken keepers will keep Leghorns as their main flock, but then they will also keep and American breed of chicken as well. This is because American chicken breeds will often lay throughout the winter, while the Leghorns won't. During the summer, the Leghorns are better layers than the American breeds.
My personal pick for good laying hens is any of the following 4 chicken breeds that are cross-bred with each other:
White Leghorns- Mediterranean breed Rhode Island Reds- American breed Light Sussex- White Wyandottes- American breed
Rhode Island Reds, crossed with White Wyandottes makes another excellent cross-breed for chickens.
There are 3 things that guarantee eggs every day:
* Meat in their diet every day if they don't have access to the outside
* Greens in their diet every day
* A sprinkling of cayenne pepper in their food every day
Other hens may need a different treatment. The best way I know to break a