Top 10 Best Backyard Chicken Breeds
2017年7月17日 · These are one of the best egg breeds, they are know for their large amount of eggs yearly (260), and beautiful egg shells also, they can lay blue,green,pinkish,brown, or white eggs! The are very friendly and docile and if you are lucky they might even like to cuddle!
Top 10 Best Egg Producing Chicken Breeds - BackYard Chickens
2020年8月15日 · Max egg production comes with a price (poor chicken health). The numbers given are what you can expect from 6 - 18 months. After that the numbers decline. And it has nothing to do with the number of eggs a chicken lays in total (life span). Some breeds lay not abundant, but keep producing eggs for a very long time.
A step by step guide to choosing the right chicken breed for you
2022年3月22日 · This my best attempt to categorise breeds by this concept, but as they are my opinions if you think a chicken deserve more recognition for its interesting features, I will try to update it. Bog-standard(.): while even the most humble of hens will still be an amazing creature, this category is for the birds which fit the common mental image we ...
Top 10 Favorite Backyard Chicken Breeds
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How to Pick the Right Chicken Breeds for You
2015年2月17日 · Some chicken breeds just can’t handle certain climates. For example, fluffy, heavy breeds such as dorkings are best suited to live in cold areas and will overheat easily in hot areas. Breeds like Andalusians, on the other hand, are best built for hot areas and will get frostbite if they live in cold places.
What are the Best Chicken Crosses? - BackYard Chickens
2019年9月22日 · best chicken crosses totally depend on what you are wanting to do. EE's can be made by several crosses as long as one has the blue egg gene and temperaments of parents come in to play, I have an Ameracauna Rooster over Rhode Island Red hens and the EE's they produce are excellent at foraging and laying but not so people friendly like the rooster.
best foraging chicken breed - BackYard Chickens
2011年12月3日 · All chickens can scrounge. However, few can find enough food to really fill them up. Though, I am a huge fan of dual-purpose breeds, I do not consider them amongst the best foraging productive breeds. If a productive foraging breed is desired, then you are best off with a smaller bird around 3-5 pounds.
Best Breeds to Sell??? - BackYard Chickens
2010年8月7日 · I need to know the very best selling breeds because I know some people like rare chickens (like me) and some people like the older breeds like BRs and RIRs and so on. I think I'm going to buy feed for a pen of chickens and when I sell them I'll split the cost of all the feed I bought for them and sell them for a little bit more than what it ...
Best Tasting Chicken Breed - BackYard Chickens
2009年7月4日 · Anybody out there who can remember when chicken used to have that wonderful flavor. Seems like it has gotten so tasteless in the past 40 years or so. That would fit with a lot of other things that have been hybridized so much. But I know that there are still heritage breeds out there that haven't lost there stuff. Both in seeds and in animals.
5 Best Chicken Breeds for Children - BackYard Chickens
2021年1月22日 · If you’re grading hens’ disposition on a scale of 1-10 with “10” being the most docile, Buff Orpingtons would rate a 10. These golden girls are one of the best chicken breeds for young children. A large dual-purpose (good for eggs and meat) bird, Orpingtons love to be loved.