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Page 1: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: Meat and Eggs

Chicken Breeds

Page 2: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: Meat and Eggs

New Hampshire Red• Brown Eggs

• Orange-Red Plumage

• Dual-Purpose: Meat and Eggs

Page 3: 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

Page 4: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: Meat and Eggs

Plymouth Barred Rock

•Brown Eggs

•Grey and White Stripped Plumage

•Dual Purpose Breed- Meat and Eggs

Page 5: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: 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

Page 6: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: Meat and Eggs

Cornish• Developed as the ultimate meat breed

• All white with muscular bodies

• Shaped the broiler industry

Page 7: Chicken Breeds. New Hampshire Red Brown Eggs Orange-Red Plumage Dual- Purpose: Meat and Eggs

Bantams• Simply the miniatures in the poultry world

• Almost all breeds have bantams

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White Leghorn

• Lay White Eggs

• White, slender bodies

• Grandparents to our current industry layers