Castellana Negra : Black Spain Chicken that lays white eggs.

Castalena Negra is a prolific chicken from. Italy. It is also Mediterranean class. The chicken is raise for its egg. They lay 200-225 eggs a year. This chicken good layer too, while it is not famous as the great layer hen leghorn. 

The hen layer big white egg. aporrximately weighs 60 grams. This chicken also amaze me because it begin lays at forut to five months. Other chicken breed begin laying eggs at the five to six months. 

As suits its name, the color chicken is black with some green light color at the feather. The feather is thick. The chicken is slender body . The combs five point signle comb, which the hean have smaller comb than the rosters. The color earlobes are white, that is signed the hen lays white eggs. 

The chicken is rustic, which is a hardy chicken. It is good for your backyard pen. They Ara adaptable to unfriendly climate. The chicken has foraging ability.

Ancona Chicken : A Good layer of Mediterranean Chicken

 The Ancona Chicken is a famous of Mediterranean chicken class. The chicken is a prolific egg-laying that can lays at least 220 eggs a year. as the Mediterranean class, the bird is hardy and rustic. they are adaptable to unfriendly climate. 

The chicken is medium size with slender appearance. The rosters weight 2,5 -2,8 and then hen 1,5 to 2,1 kilograms. 

This chicken color is black with white mottled. The Ancona is famous with this color. In, Australia also found chestnut color and in The origin Italy also found the blue color. 

The chicken is the layer purpose. This chicken is also parent of some chicken layer. Ancona is a calm and friendly chicken, so it is a good choice for your backyard pen. 

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Dorking Chicken : Ancient Rome Chicken

Dorking is a British chicken breed. Unlike other British class this chicken looks slim, weighing 9 pounds. The hen weighs 8 pounds. They have color variation such as, silver gray, dark, cuckoo, colored and red. The chicken is similar to Mediterranean chicken class. The chicken has been developed in Julius Caesar era. British people brought this chicken. They are showed in Chicken Exhibition in 1845 for the first time. This chicken is very rare but some breeder farm uses this chicken to produce Sussex and feverolles.

There are two types of chicken comb: single and rose. The rooster has bigger comb than the hen. The feet and beak is yellow in color. This chicken has unique five toes like Silky Bantam.

The hen lays white or cream eggs (depend on hen). The hen with white earlobes usually lay white eggs. The hen does not like go broody. This chicken is similar to laying chicken types that do not like hatch the eggs. To hatch their eggs, you need use other hen or incubator machine.

The chicken is very docile and it is good for backyard or pets. Unfortunately, this chicken cannot stand with hard winter climate. The winter may attack the wide comb.

Ancona : A good white egg layer chicken

Ancona chicken is a famous chicken in United States. It domesticated at Ancona, Italy. This Mediterranean bird is a game bird, or ornamental bird. Like their brother in Italy, Leghorn, this bird is slim. Both Ancona and leghorn has same ancestors. It has closely feather. The bird has been imported to England in mid 19th century. US people called the bird as mottled leghorn because they did not know Ancona.

The color of bird is black dark. Some bird has mottled black color. It has a red single comb, while the cock has bigger than the female. There is a white spot behind the ear or earlobes. Some Ancona has rose comb.

Ancona male is 6.6 lbs in weight; while, the male is 4.5 lbs. The bantam is smaller. Ancona bantam cock is 26 oz; while, the hen is 22 0z.

The shank and feet is black in color and featherless. The toe of the breed is four like most chicken (three in front and one in back). The cock has long flowing tail.

This bird is prolific chicken too. The hen can lay 150 - 190 eggs a year. The eggs is white color. Some hen also lay hint color eggs. This is the good layer that can still lay in the winter.You can consider this bird as layer.