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Legbar

ChicKat
Updated
Pros: Auto sexing, large green/blue eggs, pretty bird, good at foraging
Cons: Eggs not quite as vibrant colors as our Ameaucanas
Beautiful green to blue eggs that are larger then most other colored egg breeds, very pretty bird and to top it off you can tell girls vs boys on day one! We started breeding them because our Ameraucanas are so difficult to sex accurately and we needed a breed that we could sell as sexed chicks but they have really grown on us.

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Ameraucana

pips&peeps
Updated
Pros: Blue Eggs, Blue Eggs, Blue Eggs!
(very pretty bird too)
Cons: Tend to want to fly, like to roost high in trees if allowed.
With this breed it starts and ends with the beautiful blue (not green) eggs. Only the Araucana seems to be its equal in their beautiful blue eggs. Together with the Marans eggs they and amazing color to our market eggs packs. We have been breeding and selling them for over 4 Years and they are a customer favorite!
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Marans

Super Admin
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Pros: Large bird with beautiful large eggs, great foragers.
Cons: Not super productive layers
One of our all time favorites! Been breeding and selling them for around 5 years and they are an all around wonderful bird with one of the most impressive eggs in the chicken world. Not the most productive layers but not terrible either.

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Pros: Beautiful docile relatively sturdy and cold tolerant
Cons: Smaller eggs=smaller chicks and can get trampled easier if mixed with larger chicks in brooder
We have bred and sold them for a couple of years now and they are really wonderful birds. Obviously beautiful but also more docile and cold hearty than one might assume from their exotic.

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