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Gingernut Ranger

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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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Speckledy Hen

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Speckledy Hen Varieties: cuckoo Average Annual Egg Production: 250 Garden Suitability: Medium (best free-range) Best Features: good pets for children, soft feathers Despite its rather ‘traditional’ sounding name, the Speckledy Hen is a modern-day hybrid created by crossing a Rhode Island Red with a Maran. The Speckledy is a large bird with a classic chicken [...]

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Cochin Chickens

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Cochin Chickens Pure breed chicken Varieties: buff, black, partridge, blue, silver laced, splash, golden laced, white, & frizzled Average Annual Egg Production: 120 Garden Suitability: medium (due to low egg production) Best Features: friendly, make great pets Cochins originate from China, and were first brought to the UK during the reign of Queen Victoria in [...]

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Silkie Chickens

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Silkie Chickens Pure breed chicken Varieties: Black, Blue, Gold, Partridge, White, in Standard or Bearded Average Annual Egg Production: 150 Garden Suitability: High Best Features: Very, very cute! Perfect pets for children Silkies are an Oriental chicken breed, although whether they originated in Japan, China or Malay is open to debate. Certainly, the explorer Marco [...]

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Leghorn Chickens

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Leghorn Chickens Pure breed chicken Varieties: White , light brown, dark brown, black, & blue Average Annual Egg Production: 200 Garden Suitability: Low Best Features: high egg yield The Leghorn is an Italian breed, named after the port of Leghorn,  from which they were shipped all over the world. The breed was further developed in [...]

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