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Understanding Chickens Breeds
Your choice of chicken will depend largely on your reason for actually having a chicken, whether it is for eggs, meat or both. You may also just be interested in having chickens as pets and therefore a breed which is more attractive and friendly in nature would be a better bet.
Chicken breeds can be broken down into 2 groups, namely bantam and large, with large being on average 20 to 25% bigger than bantams. These two chickens groups can then be further broken down into classes. Bantams are classified according to various characteristics. Things like cob style and leg feathering to give an example.Large tend to be classes according to their places of origin , for example : Oriental , English , American or Asiatic.
They can be further broken down into varieties, which take into account things like colour and feature placement. Chickens are also broken down into comb style with the most common comb style being single but I think we should leave it there.
At the end of the day you really need to decide if you want a laying breed or a meat breed, or maybe a combination of both.
