Archive for the ‘Backyard Chickens’ Category


Heritage Chickens for Laying Eggs

Heritage Chickens for Eggs Ancona: These are excellent winter egg layers.  They produce medium size white eggs.  There coloring is dark which makes them great if you have predator problems. Araucana: This bird lays colored eggs. The eggs of color could be green, red or shades of blue. They are multi-color, shades of black, silver, [...]

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Chickens that Lay the Quickest Eggs

If you are looking into raising chickens and wondering which chickens will give you eggs the soonest, below is a list of chickens that that will put eggs on your table the soonest. Some chickens like Leghorns mature quickly and can start laying eggs as soon as 21 weeks. Pearl Leghorns Indian Rivers Cherry Eggers [...]

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Raising Chickens for Eggs?

  Chickens are chickens right?  Sure, but if you want to raise chickens, choosing the right chicken for you depends on what you want them for.  First you must ask yourself; what do you want them for.  Do you want to supply your family with fresh nutritional eggs? Most people who raise chickens do want [...]

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