Which Breeds Of Poultry Are Good For You?

Breeds of poultry, there are enough of them.

But what breed of chickens is going to be the best choice for you and your backyard chicken house?

Let’s have a look at some then.

The Many Breeds Of Poultry

As far breeds of chickens go there are many of them.

Whether you are looking for:

• looks
• tempermament
• a particular breed
• egg size
• broodiness
• egg quanitity

Yes…

It can extensive, as you can see.

Not just a chicken but chickens with different characters and abilities that you would rather prefer over another.

So stop your head from spinning right now and think about what you prefer in your future backyard chickens.

In fact just to confuse you even more…

There are in fact hundreds of breeds of chickens to choose from.

Yes…

A little overwhelming is an understatement…

Chickens can also vary in a lot of different ways including:

• colour
• feathers
• body size
• extent of feathers
• egg colour
• comb types

Chicken Breeds And Varying Terms Of Their Main Use

Now, there are some breeds of chickens that are known for their egg-laying ability.
And others for their…

You know, the table variety.

And there are some breeds of chickens that are more for decorative purposes, and some are considered multi-purpose chickens.

The number of eggs per year – there are some breeds of hens that will produce more eggs on average in a year than other breeds of hens of course…

Size of their Eggs – are you looking to have full-size or large eggs for your kitchen or to sell? or are you just as happy to have smaller sized eggs?

Broody hens – you are also going to get certain breeds of hens that are going to be more broody and sit on eggs than others.

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Your standard breeds of chickens versus unusual/decorative breeds of chickens out there.

Friendly breeds of chickens- are you looking for pets as well as egg layers?

Having pets is also beneficial to you as well as just having chickens to lay eggs.

As they make great pets.

Those Good Sized Eggs

If you have a choice of big eggs or small eggs.

Well, it depends on the person, but as you know that if you have more small eggs to big eggs.

You are going to end up with the same.

Large egg laying hens are for the bigger of the hen variety of breeds.

While the smaller of the egg-laying hens are from the bantam breeds.

And if you don’t really care, you can have both.

That way you will be finding all size eggs in your laying boxes.

One of those eggs laid by a bantam hen is going to be around a half to a third the size of an average egg from a full sized hen.

And bantam hens are also not as prevelant at laying as many eggs as the full sized egg laying chickens breeds in general.

If you think of the Barnevelder or the Isa Brown hen breeds, they will produce about 260 eggs per year.

Now if you compare that with about only 150 small eggs from various breeds of bantam hens, there is a difference.

But as far as backyard chickens go…

Do you really need all these eggs?

And as far as the number of eggs a hen can produce…

This also comes down to the different breeds of hens, as some are able to produce more eggs than other breeds of hens.

Chickens For The Family

Old or young, certain breeds of chickens do not mind being picked up, cuddled or just being made a fuss of.

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If you’re not too worried about having an overflow of eggs in your kitchen.

Then bantams are the way to go.

They make great pets, you might just find out that certain breeds of bantams like the heavier variety will not be as flighty as the lighter breeds.

There is the Frizzle breed of chickens that are unusual indeed.

With their feathers that look as though these chickens have had their curlers in way too long.

Yes, these feathers are curly.

Silkies are a very placid breed of bantam chickens and they make excellent pets for everybody.

One thing though…

Like many breeds of bantams, Silkies are great broody hens, but they do go broody a lot.

With their fantastic temperament, you will just have to put up with that.

Australorps are a good choice, they have a good temperament and are a layback breed of chicken.

These chickens are all black in colour and have a beetle green sheen to all their feathers.

Standard Chickens Or The Unusual Chickens?

If you just want a breed of hen that can produce a reasonably sized egg.

And also have a good number of eggs for the year.

It would be a better choice to stick with the more common standard-sized breeds.

If you are looking for something other than the usual, then you can choose many beautiful and exotic breeds of chickens.

Why not look to the Araucana for instance that lay different colour eggs like green or blue eggs.

Yes, there are chickens that you too can have that lay these sort of eggs in your back yard…

Mixing and matching different breeds of poultry why not.