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Australorp

Australorp

Capto Veritas
Great Breed
Pros: Unbeatable ability to thrive on poor feeding and low density.
Cons: Not any, but white rocks are a bit better.
Utility strains can thrive in low-density farm rations and in poor feeding better than any other breed or commercial hybrid. The only reason I gave 4 instead of 5 is that Plymouth Rocks are more balanced, Mediterraneands forage best and NN are more disease resistant.
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Lohman Brown

Lohman Brown

Kenchick
Updated
Pros: All the benefits main hybrid layers have.
Cons: Hy-line browns eat less and lay more.
Heritage breeds perform better in poor feeding and farm density rations.
They need too much balance in their feeding.
Usually sold debeaked.
Choose the hy-line brown over the lohmann brown.
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Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Rock

Super Admin
Updated
Pros: I will only talk about the old heritage strains of white rocks.

They thrive on pasture, utilizing everything they eat. They can thrive on feed restriction methods. They produce large to jumbo eggs of pinkish, terracotta, peach brown color and wonderful glossy shells. They have a wonderful golden yellow skin. They produce high density meat even when eating only 50 grams of a 14% protein organic layer feed a day. They also grow with a growth rate of a hybrid layer, very fast, and without having any problems due to the fast growth. Also, do not forget the advantages of butchering a white feathered chicken. Pin feathers won't be easily seen. They are trustworthy broody hens when aged.
Cons: None.
The most balanced old type heritage breed is by far the white Plymouth rock.
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Rhode Island Red

Rhode Island Red

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Pros: Great layers.
Big glossy brown eggs.
Great feed to egg conversion ratio.
Good response to low-density feed
Cold hardy.
Heat tolerant.
Calm.
Adores humans a lot.
Cons: The feather color wasn't appropriate for showing and exhibition.
Also, my strain was bred for egg production and not for a dual purpose.
Very aggressive to other chickens, not only to newcomers.
Good forager, but not as good as Mediterranean Breeds.
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Easter Egger bantam

Easter Egger bantam

CherriesBrood
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Pros: Hybrid vigor, good layer, sexed by color day old.
Extremely hard egg.
Cons: Does not lay through winter.
Sometimes the eggs aren't blueish or greenish.
The male lines were a cross between golden laced polish and bantam araucana.
The female lines were bantam cuckoo marans feather legged.

She is crested, feather legged, black sex-linked of a wheaten type and has a V-shaped comb, almost similar to the pure breed called polish.

Bought her on September 2009.

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TheOddOneOut
TheOddOneOut
How on earth are they sexed by color?
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Thomas Lamprogiorgos
Cuckoo color carries the barring gene. Non barred males over barred females create color sexable chicks.
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