Chicken Breeds
• Brown Eggs
• Orange-Red
Plumage
• DualPurpose:
Meat and
Eggs
New Hampshire Red
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
• 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
Cochin
• Developed as the
ultimate meat
breed
• All white with
muscular bodies
• Shaped the broiler
industry
Cornish
• Simply the
miniatures
in the
poultry
world
• Almost all
breeds
have
bantams
Bantams
White Leghorn
• Lay White Eggs
• White, slender
bodies
• Grandparents to our
current industry
layers