chicken breeds. new hampshire red brown eggs orange-red plumage dual- purpose: meat and eggs
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Chicken Breeds
New Hampshire Red• Brown Eggs
• Orange-Red Plumage
• Dual-Purpose: Meat and Eggs
Rhode Island Red•Brown Eggs
•Dark-Red Plumage
•Better layers then New Hampshire Reds
Plymouth Barred Rock
•Brown Eggs
•Grey and White Stripped Plumage
•Dual Purpose Breed- Meat and Eggs
Cochin• Feathered Shanks
• Extremely loose, fluffy feather
• Raised primarily as an ornamental breed
• Great brooders, so they are commonly used to hatch other kinds of fowl
Cornish• Developed as the ultimate meat breed
• All white with muscular bodies
• Shaped the broiler industry
Bantams• Simply the miniatures in the poultry world
• Almost all breeds have bantams
White Leghorn
• Lay White Eggs
• White, slender bodies
• Grandparents to our current industry layers