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hello everyone my name is chris and im here to learn and get advice about everything to do with chickens from best breeds for meat and eggs to numbers needed to sustain my family ..
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Welcome to BYC, Chris! Glad you decided to join our flock. If you are not strictly set on standard breeds, the best layers and meat birds are hybrids. For laying, I would suggest Black Sex Links, which are hardy and friendly, egg laying machines. I've raised them for years (along with dozens of breeds and hybrids), and they have been my best layers, consistently churning out more than 300 eggs per hen per year. For meat birds, Cornish cross is the way to go. With their amazing growth rate, they are really for butchering at 8 weeks. In fact, if you wait much past that, they begin to develop all kinds of health problems due to their abnormal growth rate. If you prefer dual purpose breeds which will breed true, I would recommend Black Australorps. Black Australorps are extremely hardy, calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter, made lap pets of them), and they are the best layers of the standard, brown egg laying breeds. In addition, they have enough meat on them for good eating. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Whatever breed or hybrid you decide to get, good luck with your flock.hello everyone my name is chris and im here to learn and get advice about everything to do with chickens from best breeds for meat and eggs to numbers needed to sustain my family ..