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I hadn't heard of that chart, looking at it now. It seems more detailed than everything else I have found.You might start by looking at Henderson's chicken breeds chart. Heritage quality birds are most likely to give you what you are looking for. Consider this: hatcheries are cranking out just as many chicks of a particular breed as they can. So, they are focused on using breeders that are heavy layers, sometimes to the exclusion of focus on other desirable traits: longevity, personality, feather quality conformity to breed standard. If you choose a breed, then find a quality breeder, you may end up with birds that are longer lived, perhaps lay less eggs/week, but more eggs/life time.