Chicken of the week!


                                                Frizzle!!!


                             


Uses: Exhibition. Eggs: 160 white or tinted eggs.
Origin: Asia?
Weight: Cock: 3.6Kg, Hen: 2.7Kg.
Bantam Cock: 680-790g Bantam Hen: 570-680g
Colours: Buff, Black, Black-Red, Brown-Red, Blue, Columbian, Cuckoo, Duckwing, Pile, Red, Spangled and White.
Useful to Know: Mating Frizzles will give 25% smooth feathered, 25% very frizzled and 50% frizzled (of varying quality). All of the offspring are still called Frizzles.

Frizzles usually lay light eggs   

                                 Today's Chicken Of The Week!!!

                                         Lemon Merans!!!

                                                       


Uses: Utility. Dark egg laying sex-linked hybrid production.
Origin: Marans, France. Eggs: 160 - 210 Dark Brown.
Weight: Cock: 3.6 Kg.Hen: 3.2Kg.
Bantam Cock: 500 - 550g, Hen: 400 - 450g.
Colours: Black, Dark Cuckoo, Golden Cuckoo, Silver Cuckoo (Standardised), Black Tailed Buff, Brown Red (a.k.a. Copper Black), Copper Blue, Silver Black (Birchen), White, Wheaten, and Columbien (a.k.a. Ermine) (non-standardised).
Useful to Know: Cuckoo Marans hens can be mated with an unbarred cock to produce sex-linked hybrid offspring. Copper Black Marans are thought to produce the darkest brown eggs.



                                                           
                 Lemon Merans usually lay darker eggs but once in a while the lay colored!







                 INFO CREDIT TO   http://poultrykeeper.com/chicken-breeds/marans-chickens
                                 

                        Here are some eggs to be expected with certain chickens! 


                                                    These are Americana eggs my favorite!

  

              

                                         

What Kind of chicken are you looking for?

         Now that you know the breeds of chickens and what they look like you need to pick a breed that you want for a purpose!

        This part is hard but with some trial to which chicken fits you it shouldn't take long! 
         here are some my personal favorites whether its for meat or eggs or both! 

Wyandotte

americana chickens

Jersey Giant

Araucana

Dorking

Marans

 New Hampshire Red

                                       

  

The fist step in this amazing journey is getting the chicks!

  I know your excited but don't get to cocky you have to know your chicks before you get them! Here is the best way to find a chicken or chick of your choice! 

Ancona Light: Soft Feather	Andalusian Light: Soft Feather	Appenzeller Barthuhner Light: Soft Feather	Appenzeller Spitzhauben Light: Soft Feather
Araucana Light: Soft Feather	Rumpless Araucana Light: Soft Feather	Asil Asian Hard Feather	Australorp Heavy: Soft Feather
Barbu d'Anvers Belgian Bantam	Barbu d'Uccle Belgian Bantam	Barbu de Watermael Belgian Bantam	Barbu d'Everberg Belgian Bantam
Barbu du Grubbe Belgian Bantam	Barnevelder Heavy: Soft Feather	Booted Bantam True Bantam (Rare)	Brahma Heavy: Soft Feather
Brakel Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Campine Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Cochin Heavy: Soft Feather	Croad Langshan Heavy: Soft Feather
Dominique Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Dorking Heavy: Soft Feather	Dutch Bantam True Bantam	Faverolles Heavy: Soft Feather
Fayoumi Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Friesian Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Frizzle Heavy: Soft Feather	German Langshan Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)
Hamburgh Light: Soft Feather	Houdan Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Hybrids Not Pure Bred!	Indian Game Hard Feather
Ixworth Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Japanese Bantam True Bantam	Jersey Giant Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Ko Shamo Asian Hard Feather
Kraienkoppe / Twentse Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Kulang Asian Hard Feather	La Flèche Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Lakenvelder Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
Legbar Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing	Leghorn Light: Soft Feather	Lincolnshire Buff Heavy: Soft Feather	Malay Asian Hard Feather
Marans Heavy: Soft Feather	Marsh Daisy Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Minorca Light: Soft Feather	Modern Game Hard Feather
Modern Langshan Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Nankin Bantam True Bantam (Rare)	Nankin Shamo Asian Hard Feather Extinct in the UK	New Hampshire Red Heavy: Soft Feather
Norfolk Grey Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Ohiki True Bantam (Rare)	Carlisle Old English Game Hard Feather	Oxford Old English Game Hard Feather
Old English Game Bantam Hard Feather	Old English Pheasant Fowl Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Orloff Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Orpington Heavy: Light Feather
Pekin Bantam True Bantam	Plymouth Rock Heavy: Soft Feather	Poland Light: Soft Feather	Redcap Light: Soft Feather
Rhodebar Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Rhode Island Red Heavy: Soft Feather	Rosecomb Bantam True Bantam	Rumpless Game Hard Feather (Rare)
Satsumadori Asian Hard Feather	Scots Dumpy Light: Soft Feather	Scots Grey Light: Soft Feather	Sebright Bantam True Bantam
Serama True Bantam	Shamo Asian Hard Feather	Sicilian Buttercup Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Silkie Light: Soft Feather
Spanish Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Sulmtaler Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Sultan Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Sumatra Light: Soft Feather (Rare)
Sussex Heavy: Soft Feather	Taiwan Asian Hard Feather	Thai Game Asian Hard Feather	Thuringian Light: Soft Feather
Transylvanian Naked Neck Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare)	Tuzo Asian Hard Feather	Vorwerk Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Welbar Light: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing
Welsummer Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Wyandotte Heavy: Soft Feather	Wybar Heavy: Soft Feather (Rare) Autosexing	Yakido Asian Hard Feather(Rare)
Yamato Gunkei Asian Hard Feather	Yokohama Light: Soft Feather (Rare)	Now that you have probably pick 10 different kinds of chickens out lets narrow them down a bit...