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Pekin Bantams Varieties: Lavender, blue, silver partridge, red partridge, blue mottled, Columbian, cuckoo, mottled, buff, black, white & wheaten Average Annual Egg Production: 125 Garden Suitability: High Best Features: full feathers, make great pets The Pekin bantam originates from China, although there is no proof to the story that they were stolen from the Emperor’s [...]
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Plymouth Rock Chicken Varieties: barred, blue, buff, Columbian, partridge, silver-penciled & white Average Annual Egg Production: 200 Garden Suitability: High Best Features: suitable as pets, good dual-use The original Plymouth Rock chicken was first seen in an American poultry show in 1829, but the Barred variety (named after the bands of colour on its wings) [...]
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New Hampshire Red Chicken Average Annual Egg Production: 280 eggs a year Garden Suitability: High Best Features: excellent meat birds New Hampshire Red chicken originate from New Hampshire in the USA, where farmers selectively bred Rhode Island Reds to create a bird that matured quickly and laid plenty of eggs. The resulting New Hampshire Red [...]
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Miss Pepperpot Chickens Average Annual Egg Production: 300 Garden Suitability: High Best Features: disease resistant, hardy, good pets Despite its rather twee name, Miss Pepperpot is a superb egg-laying hybrid chicken breed, a cross between A Rhode Island Red, a Maran and a Plymouth Rock. Miss Pepperpots are only available to buy as hens. (Can [...]
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Gingerbread Ranger Average Annual Egg Production: 300 Garden Suitability: Medium (best free-range) Best Features: make excellent pets, very high egg production Despite sounding like a kid’s tv show hero, the Gingernut Ranger is a Rhode Island Red and Light Sussex cross that lays plenty of eggs. Gingernut Rangers are pert birds, with their tails pointing [...]
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