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Chicken Breeds

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.

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Chicken Breeds

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  1. Chicken Breeds

  2. New Hampshire Red • Brown Eggs • Orange-Red Plumage • Dual-Purpose: Meat and Eggs

  3. Rhode Island Red • Brown Eggs • Dark-Red Plumage • Better layers then New Hampshire Reds

  4. Plymouth Barred Rock • Brown Eggs • Grey and White Stripped Plumage • Dual Purpose Breed- Meat and Eggs

  5. 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

  6. Cornish • Developed as the ultimate meat breed • All white with muscular bodies • Shaped the broiler industry

  7. Bantams • Simply the miniatures in the poultry world • Almost all breeds have bantams

  8. White Leghorn • Lay White Eggs • White, slender bodies • Grandparents to our current industry layers

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