Chicken Breeds

• Brown Eggs
New Hampshire Red

• 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
• Feathered Shanks Cochin
• Extremely loose, fluffy
feather

• Raised primarily as an
ornamental breed

• Great brooders, so
they are commonly
used to hatch other
kinds of fowl
• Developed as the Cornish
ultimate meat
breed

• All white with

muscular bodies

• Shaped the broiler

industry
• Simply the Bantams
miniatures
in the
poultry
world

• Almost all
breeds
have
bantams
 White Leghorn
• Lay White Eggs

• White, slender
bodies

• Grandparents to our
current industry
layers