Production Bred Chickens: Know What You Are Getting.
The Black Rock Chicken is a hybrid cross from selected strains of Rhode Island Red (cockerels) and Barred Plymouth Rock (hens). This parent stock originally came from ??? in 1973 and was in the hands of Peter and Margaret Siddons of Muirfield Hatchery in Scotland for 37 years until 2010 when the parent stock was bought by Eddie Lovett at Crosslee Poultry Farm.
The Speckledy hybrid chicken is a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a Maran. The appearance of the Speckledy is very similar to a Maran, however they have a slightly smaller build and their colour is lighter. Speckledy’s are prolific egg producers should produce around 300 eggs in the first year, after this the number of eggs will decrease.
Rhode Island Red chickens are easy to care for, they will produce around 260 eggs per year. They are some of the best foragers, so they make excellent free-range birds and penned chickens too, as long as you keep moving the pen around for ample forage.
The Rhode Island Red is an American breed of domestic chicken. It is the state bird of Rhode Island.: 70 It was developed there and in Massachusetts in the late nineteenth century, by cross-breeding birds of Oriental origin such as the Malay with brown Leghorn birds from Italy.
Buckeye Chicken Buckeye chickens enjoying hay video. The Buckeye is a dual-purpose breed of chicken with a deep, lustrous red color of plumage. They have yellow legs and skin, and, thanks to their pea comb, are very cold-weather hardy. While Buckeyes adapt readily to a variety of living conditions, they do best under free-range conditions or.
For today’s Did You Know we will look at Poultry fun facts such as in Ancient China, a goose was given as a wedding present to represent faithfulness.
Egg production potentials of certain indigenous chicken breeds from South Africa J.A.N. Grobbelaar1, B. Sutherland2 and N.M. Molalakgotla1 1Agricultural Research Council, Livestock Business Division, Irene, Private Bag x2, Irene 0062, South Africa; 2Faculty of Science, Department of Animal Sciences, Tshwane University of Technology, Private Bag x680, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.