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started November 1999
These pages are being made up from the wealth of practical and technical knowledge that can be found on the newsgroup. None of the topics are finished - they probably never will be - we always have something to learn and add. If there is something you wnat to know that is not here - get on the group and ask - they are a really friendly group and no question is too simple - and hopefully if it is complicated someone will be able to help find the answer. IF there is something you want to add please contact Jill. The group is made up from all walks of poultry keeping from 2 birds in the city to commercial egg and meat producers - and from all over the world. These are only our opinions and ideas - no responsibilty can be held for how you use the information and there are no guarentees that the information is correct.
Pure chicken breeds
for hybrids go to Hybrids
Large Fowl
Ancona
- Andalusian - Appenzeller
- Araucana - Australorp - Barnevelder - Brahma - Bresse - Campine
- Cochin - Creve-Coeur - Croad Langshan - Dorking - Faverolle
- Frizzle - Hamburgh - Houdan - Indian (Cornish) Game
- Ixworth - Jersey Giant - Lakenvelder - Leghorn - La
Fleche - Malay - Maran
-
Marsh Daisy - Minorca - Modern Game - New Hampshire Red - Norfolk
Grey - North Holland Blue - Old English Game - Old English Pheasant Fowl
- Orloff - Orpington Buff , Black -
Plymouth Rock - Poland - Rhode Island Red - Scots Dumpy - Scots Grey
- Sicilian Buttercup - Silkie - Spanish - Sultan
- Sumatra Game - Sussex - Welsummer - Wyandotte - Wybar
- Yokohama - Transylvanian Naked Neck
Bantams (many large fowl have miniaturised
versions called bantams)
Barbu d'Anvers - Barbu d'Uccle
- Booted - Nankin - Old Dutch - Japanese
- Rosecomb - Sebright -
Pekin - Tuzo
Productivity
Rule of thumb: USA
Modern commercial hens (production White Leghorns,
Production Reds, California Whites, and the brown-egg hybrids) lay about
300eggs a year;
old-fashioned standard-bred "egg-type" commercial
strains of Barred Rocks, New Hampshires, Rhode Island Reds, California
Grays, White Leghorns, and Brown Leghorns will lay 200-250;
and everything else will lay less.
Outside the U.S., the commercial vs. non-commercial
breeds will be different.)
: UK
Black Rocks (commercial free range hybrid)- 320 eggs
a year
Good Utility pure Maran, Leghorn, Rhode Island Red,
- 270 - 300 a year
Good Utility pure Buff Orpington, White Wyandotte,
Light Sussex - 200 plus
Welsummers - low yield - great brown eggs
Exhibition stock - lower than utility - but breeds for perfect type and feathering
I plan to have a start in to
the hobby of raising chickens next spring. I have seen so many great
types/breeds I am looking for mostly yard art, but plan to butcher a few...
Can anyone suggest a breed or breeds that might do best in Minnesota over
the winters ?
We are in Wisconsin, away
from the lake :- We have fine luck with wyandottes(rose-comb) and cochins
(even smaller comb), especially, no added heat (except to keep the water
thawed!) and . However, I
have had even tightly-feathered
bantams survive for years, like OE Game and mille fleuer (sp?) with no
supplemental heat. They all need good ventilation through the winter,
and they are incredibly hardy, if they are well.