Breeds of chickens your ancestors had?

[tiki244]

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deceivingly cute

 

[Cheekon]

My grate aunt had red sex links and leghorns.

 

[MRNpoultry]

My grandpas mom and dad had two thousand white leghorns and dominques in the 50's and my grandmas parents had probaly 200 or more dominques and rhode island reds.

 

[turnerstar31]

my family had some sort of game birds not really sure which kind though. They also had rir

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I am just loving all the cool pics.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

My mother always had flocks of Dominique when I was growing up...

Her and my grandfather raised a meat bird back in the 40s and delivered them butchered to restaurants but I don't know what breed...

 

[seedcorn]

Maternal g'parents had barred rocks

Paternal g'parents had games that ran wild.

 

[country freedom]

My family raised these breeds on my Pappaw's farm while I was growing up there:

White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshire Reds, Doms, Barred Rocks, Black Minorcas, and a few kinds of Old English Bantam breeds:
I love mutt breeds!

 

[RobinEgg]

my grandparents kept white leghorns , RIR and Dominikers.
Thanks for sharing those old photos I've really enjoyed them.

 

[cockadoodlemom]

My dad had several different breeds a couple of times. He likes White Leghorns which he calls White Leggers cause of the white eggs. My Papa {Dad's dad} also had a variety of chickens that he keep in a coop & run. My Grandma {Dad's mom} has told me her family kept "Dominikers". My Mom loves RIR's cause that is what her father raised & loved {He passed away when I was a little over a year old}. Granddad {my Mom's dad's father} had I think every breed there was. Grandad loved his chickens and they had nest but they roosted in the trees. His rooster was absolutely the most beautiful rooster I ever saw. You know whats funny~they would all laugh at the incubating eggs instead of letting the hen take care of it. I can hear my Granddad laughing at me hatching the eggs out in the incubator.