Breed Profile
Learn about all the interesting breeds available to flock managers who raise poultry for eggs, meat, show, or simply for pleasure.
Breed Profile: Pavlovskaya Chicken
The Pavlovskaya chicken is a cute, quirky, and personable landrace breed from Volga Uplands of Russia.
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Leghorn Chicken Facts
Learn leghorn chicken facts and characteristics to help you decide which poultry breed to raise.
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Breed Profile: Shamo Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, the Shamo Chicken is also known as a “gamefowl.”
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Breed Profile: Cubalaya Chicken
Part of our Breed Profile series, learn more about the Cubalaya chicken, a Cuban breed.
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Breed Profile: Breda Chicken
The Breda chicken is a unique dual-purpose heritage breed from the Netherlands, with striking looks and adorable temperament. Recently, it has become an endangered rare breed.
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Breed Profile: Easter Egger Chicken
Easter Egger chickens are not a true breed, rather a hybrid cross. since they are a hybrid, no two birds look exactly the same, making for a rainbow of colors in a backyard flock.
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Breed Profile: Welsh Harlequin Ducks
Welsh Harlequin ducks make an excellent small duck breed for backyard keeper. They are placid, great foragers and provide both eggs and meat.
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Breed Profile: Delaware Chicken
The Delaware chicken is a 20th-century creation, developed specifically for the growing broiler market in the 1940s. They’re so pretty, they were recognized by the APA for exhibition (in 1952), in those years when production was as significant as beauty.
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Hungarian Yellow Chickens
Learn about Hungarian Yellow Chickens, a beautiful landrace heritage breed and national treasure of Hungary.
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Breed Profile: Silver Appleyard Duck
Silver Appleyard ducks are a great all-round heavy breed: friendly, great foragers, growing quickly to produce delicious, lean meat and plentiful eggs.
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