Best Egg-Laying Chicken Breeds

www.hen-houses.net Best Egg-Laying Chicken Breeds . . . . Read the article below There are many chicken varieties, and all lay eggs, but only a handful are in the best egg-laying chicken breeds category. All female chickens will lay edible eggs with identical nutritional content, but some bird varieties have been bred especially for their egg-laying capabilities and thus are superior chickens for that purpose. Below you will find description on best egg laying chicken breeds. Leghorn Leghorns come in many colors and sizes but all of them have large combs, red eyes and white earlobes. Their wattles are long and rounded and they have firm bodies. They are fairly compact birds which lay well. They are excitable animals and get spooked easily, especially id your household is noisy. They don’t mind being confined to a small run, but because they are small they are good at flying. Their large combs bring problems. They need more food in the winter to ‘pay’ for the heat loss and they do tend to have problems with fighting and generally catching it about the garden. Leghorns have one thing in their favour they eat more slugs than any bird. They will give around 250 eggs a year. Plymouth Rock and Barred Rock It comes in two colors, white or buff, and is a big bird so small housing is out of the question. There is also a barred variety with red comb and white wattles. It was developed as a dual-purpose bird that gave a reasonable supply of eggs and yet also a good carcass for the …