Faverolles: This breed is a good choice for backyard chicken keepers, as they are good egg layers and also friendly and docile. Faverolles can lay up to 150 eggs per year. 13.

We’ve all heard of the goose that laid the golden egg, but what about chickens that lay pink eggs? Chicken eggs come in many shades of white, cream, dark brown, green, blue, and pink. What turns ...

Cold climate: Silkies. Silkies aren’t great at laying eggs (you can expect fewer than 100 a year), but they’re pretty chickens, with gorgeous feathers and a wide range of colorings.

So, take all of that combined – their docile nature, prolific egg-laying, and smaller size – and you’ve got a top choice for beginners. The Worst Chicken Breeds for Beginners 1.

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To do this, they took a commercial egg-laying chicken known as Hy-Line Brown, which is optimized to lay eggs. (These chickens can lay more than 200 eggs a year .) ...

Like you’ll hear, when they lay an egg, they make like a certain egg laying noise and, just kind of like [00:16:00] little personality quirks of each breed, and that’s why I always recommend a ...

British scientists have genetically modified chickens so they can lay eggs from different breeds. The aim is to preserve rare chicken breeds that may be resistant to global infections like bird ...

She breeds her own chickens and works hard to develop true colors. "It takes a lot of test breeding," she said. Both heritage breeds and blue egg-laying varieties do not produce as many eggs as ...