hybrid-chickens
Does it Matter if You Raise Heritage Chicken Breeds or Hybrids?
What are heritage chicken breeds? You may be asking this question if you start looking at different breeds of chickens to start a backyard flock.
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Understanding Sex-Link Hybrid Chickens
At Backyard Poultry we get questions all the time asking for help identifying the breed of various chickens. Many times the chickens pictured are not purebred chickens at all but crossbreeds / hybrid chickens hatcheries produce for very specific purposes – such as egg production.
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Crested Cream Legbar Chickens: Beautiful Blue Egg Layers
This beautiful British breed crested cream legbar chickens have fantastic coloration, a feather crest on their head, lays lots of blue eggs and produces chicks that can be easily sexed as soon as they hatch.
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The Brakel (Braekel) Chicken
Although not exceptionally rare, the Brakel (alt. Braekel) breed always needs more keepers and is also a historic, interesting race. In Flanders, Belgium where it originates, the “Brakel Hen” is known as the oldest large laying breed that still exists today, the Ardenner being the oldest Belgian breed of the French speaking Waloon area of Belgium.
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Ask the Expert — December 2018/January 2019
Add to Favorites Washing Eggs Before Boiling How do you handle eggs if you want to hard boil them? I usually wash in 90 degree water and put them in …
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