Chicken Breeds GALORE
A chicken is a chicken is a chicken, right? I used to think so, until very early in my relationship with a guy named Larry, when we entered the local feed store on our way back from a lunch date. When I set my eyes on the metal stock tanks full of peeping yellow balls of fluff, I was immediately smitten. Next to the tanks, there was a large chart showing drawings of approximately 15 different types of chickens, along with details of their uses and their basic characteristics.
That trip, we left the feed store with some type of part for Larry’s lawn tractor, a bag of chick starter feed, and to my joy, a little box of six peeping chicks. Larry already had waterers, feeders, and a heat lamp back at his house, as he’d been raising turkey poults for a few years.
It was on the ride back to his house that I realized I knew nothing about chickens. Larry
