Types of Chickens

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Types of Chickens

There are over 150 breeds of chickens. I've listed the major breeds by classification below:
Egg Producing Chickens (Lightweight) Ameraucana Ancona Andalusian Araucana Asturian Painted Hen Barnevelder Campine Catalana Easter Egger Fayoumi Jærhøne Kraienköppe (Twentse) Lakenvelder Leghorn Marans Minorca Orloff Penedesenca Sicilian Buttercup White-Faced Black Spanish Welsummer Meat Chickens Bresse Indian Game (or Cornish Game) Ixworth Jersey Giant Hybrids Black Sex Link (also called Black Stars) Red Sex Link (also called Red Stars) ISA Brown Lohmann Brown Daisy Belle Cream Legbar Cornish-Rock Easter Egger	Exhibition Chickens American Game Asil Appenzeller Barbu de Watermael Bearded d'Anvers Bearded d'Uccle Belgian d'Everberg Blue Hen of Delaware Booted Bantam Cochin Crèvecœur Croad Langshan Dutch Bantam Frizzle Ga Noi Hamburg Houdan Japanese Bantam La Flèche Malay Modern Game Nankin Old English Game Pekin Phoenix Polish Rosecomb Sebright Serama Shamo Silkie Sultan Sumatra Vorwerk Yokohama	Dual Purpose Chickens (Meat and Eggs) Australorp Brahma Braekel (Brakel) Buckeye California Gray Chantecler Cubalaya Derbyshire Redcap Dominique Dorking Faverolles Holland Iowa Blue Java Jersey Giant Marsh Daisy Naked Neck New Hampshire Norfolk Grey Orpington Plymouth Rock Poltava Rhode Island Red Rhode Island White Scots Dumpy Scots Grey Sussex Winnebago Wyandotte Bantams (Miniatures) Belgian Bearded d'Anvers Belgian Bearded d'Uccle Belgian d'Everberg Booted Bantam Dutch Bantam Japanese Bantam Nankin Pekin Rosecomb Sebright Serama Silkie
Here are details of some of the most common breeds found on small family farms:
BREED	COMMENTS	PHOTO
Barred Rocks	Type of Chicken: Meat and Eggs Egg Color: Brown Notes: An American Favorite, it's a cross between a Dominique and Black Java.
Rhode Island Reds	Type of Chicken: Meat and Eggs Egg Color: Brown Notes: The most famous and popular breed in America. Holds the record for a heavy breed brown egg layer.
White Leghorn	Type of Chicken: Eggs Only Egg Color: White Notes: Specifically bred to lay lots of white eggs with a high feed to egg conversion ratio. This is the chicken that lays all of the commercial 'supermarket' eggs.

AMAZING CHICKEN FACTS:

A chicken is 75% water.
In the U.S., approximately 46% of the chicken that is eaten by people comes from restaurants or other food outlets.
A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs.
Hens will produce larger eggs as they grow older.

"So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good!"
Genesis 1:21

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