Speckled chickens: breed profile and photos

The Most common way of homemaking is breeding chickens – birds, undemanding to the conditions of detention and always supplying their owners with fresh eggs and nutritious meat. Speckled hens are the most common among rest and home maintenance are considered the most productive. In particular, we are talking about the breed of Dominant, which is an improved version of the standard egg-laying hens.

Breed Dominants: exterior features

This breed bred in the Czech Republic, has a very attractive external characteristics which can be briefly described as “voluminous tail and massive body”. Due to the short legs of these speckled hens look squat. The wings fit snugly to the body than visually increase its volume. Head rather small, with red earrings and comb. In addition to speckled this breed is grown in black, gold and even blue colors.

Features breed Dominant

Speckled hens (species Dominants) are characterized by very strong immune system. When injected into the chicken coop pathogens either do not get sick or recover easily. This feature is only on hand to beginning farmers who are not always able to provide the feathered flock right conditions.

Speckled hens breed of Dominant actively cultivated in more than 30 countries, are characterized by a high egg-laying capacity: about 300 eggs per year an average size of 60 grams, which is the highest rate among these birds. Rush starts relatively early, the fifth month of birth. Characterized by a docile temperament. Farmers have no need to build high enclosures, as this breed of birds will not fly over high fences. For content you can use as cages and pens.

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To care for chickens-and-white (photo in article) undemanding, lost in the feed vitamins and minerals is easily mined in nature themselves. Unlike conventional laying hens, able to withstand extreme weather conditions, therefore, became especially popular in cold climates.

The little red hen: breed Pushkin

The Perfect rustic chicken called Pushkin rock, characterized by motley-black color, unpretentiousness to the conditions of detention, high egg production. In addition, these chickens-speckled (photo fully conveys the appeal of this breed) did not know how to fly. The nature is very calm, with the approaching danger, no fuss as other types, and Crouch. Very tame, and easy fishing.

The Benefits of Pushkin's breed is:

• Unpretentiousness to the conditions of feeding and maintenance,
• High endurance
• Almost full (95%) preservation of the adult population,
• Good indicator of vyvodyaschy - 84%.

The name of these speckled hens are named after the place where it was withdrawn: the town of Pushkin, Leningrad oblast. Outward signs of this breed is:

• Long pinagawa neck,
• Small head
• Hanging comb leaf-shaped,
• Striped mottled color with white podrugam.

The Average chicken weight of 1.8 to 2 kg, the cock – about 2.5 kg Annual egg production – from 220 to 230 large, with a beautiful egg yolk. The meat has a beautiful presentation and high taste qualities. Hens perfectly adapt to any home of the house, do not require a particular type of feed, light regime and temperature. Chicks have a high survival rate, fast growth and unpretentiousness.

Plimutrok – Ryabykh breed chickens

Ideal for household this breed of chickens-speckled, as Plimutrok. Bird multi-purpose, allowing to obtain high quality eggs and excellent meat.

Externally, the chickens are characterized by beautiful plumage and a tight compact body type. They have a large torso, wide back and chest. The tail is short thick, high crest. The bill and legs are yellow. Tail striped, Kuropatkino, fawn, black and white.

Very popular with farmers is the chicken Ryaba (rock Plimutrok) due to the elegance appearance. Birds white color is actively bred in industrial production. Mass chicken is about 3.5 kg, average cock weighs up to 5 kg. the Annual rate of egg production – 190 eggs.

Chicken-Ryaba unpretentious food, need street range, where they can be fed grass. Easy acklimatiseras. Almost never fly over the fence. Have a high instinct for incubation, so it is convenient to the household without the incubator. A rather curious bird, not shy, can come close to the person, easy to get used to it.

The Hungarian speckled hen

These Chicks-rabami can be called birds of a Hungarian breed, characterized by a beautiful mottled coloration, large body weight and high egg production. The most attractive is the Hungarian Giant – fast growing, easy growing muscle mass appearance.

The Bird is massive, stands out for rich lush plumage, wellhiding the General shape of the body. Females have a small tail, a deep chest, big belly. Laying hens are characterized by a high maternal instinct: they form the walls, and thoroughly her hatch. Well take care of their offspring.

For keeping all those chickens fit any house with a small dog run. Good condition pen cover offers excellent feeling birds at all temperatures. In the winter, it will be enough to lay high bed of hay.

About the breed Hercules

Relatively recently was breed chickens bred Hercules, able to compete with broilers and is superior to the quality of their meat. At the age of 6 months chicken-Ryaba of this type weigh 3 pounds, and males – about 6 kg.

Chickens breed Hercules meet in 5 pen colors: white, gold, silver, speckled and kukushechka (black-striped). Bird friendly, can be successfully grown on a single farmstead with geese, ducks, turkeys. The rate of annual egg production – about 200 eggs, with very high yolk weight is 35 to 100.