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Dear Abi,
I am an enrichment student at Hermann Middle School in Missouri. I am doing a project on chickens, and I was wondering if you could answer a few of my questions?
My first question is what is the most popular breed of chicken? Why? The next question I have is what are all the possible colors of eggs? Those are my questions.
Thank you for your time. If you can, please respond. I would be very grateful.
Sincerely,
Heather .H.
Hello Heather,
There is not really a most popular breed of chicken, as there are hundreds and hundreds of breeds. I can tell you which are most popular for commercial laying and for meat, but as pets people like many different breeds, and like me, they keep a lot of the different breeds together.
Eggs range from the normal peachy-pink colour, to robin's egg blue and green, and pink. We have a chicken who lays very very deep chocolatey brown eggs. There are also speckled eggs, brown eggs, pure white eggs...
Thanks for your question.
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Answers by Expert:
Abi
Expertise
I CAN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS ON ANIMALS OTHER THAN CHICKENS/DUCKS/GEESE- I WILL TRY BUT THEY ARE NOT MY SPECIALIST SUBJECT- PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME QUESTIONS ABOUT BUDGIES, FINCHES, PARROTS, COCKATIELS OR OTHER 'EXOTIC' BIRDS. I can answer questions on pretty much all CHICKEN breeds, including fancy and bantam birds. I can give advice on how to get the best egg production, brightest yolk colours and darkest egg shell colours, breeding (using broody hens, not incubators), bird problems/illnesses. I can give advice on all aspects of basic chicken care but I breed chickens for my own pleasure only, I do not often show or sell my birds.
Experience
I own and breed a wide range of chickens, but I speciallise in cochins and crevecour bantams; crevecours have a large crest (an afro!) so I can answer questions on problems concerning them; cochins have feathered legs, which leads to no end of problems which I have experienced! I also own a large flock of domestic, rescued 'battery' hens, and a single maran hen, Hilda, who is the matriarch of her flock, so I can give advice on how to get the best colour of maran eggs!
Education/Credentials
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