Old ways corn raised chickens

[MROO]

The advice to avoid birds... "with lots of white in their plumage" is not worth much. The color white was selected for because the white pen feathers were not as visible to your mothers and grandmothers as red, black breasted red, or any other color chicken feathers. Less you forget, when sitting in Kroger's cooler a dressed chicken that sported red feathers will look like it has 5:00 Clock shadow, but a white chicken will look clean shaven.

For table-birds, you are absolutely right. The "average" housewife showed a preference for a pretty, yellow skin, so commercial farmers went for the whites.
Avoiding white coloring is for free-range birds, well before they hit the table. White tends to show up very brightly against natural environments, so unless they're hiding in a white rose garden, white plumage is a great attention-getter for a hawk or a fox.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

... Avoiding white coloring is for free-range birds... White tends to show up very brightly against natural environments, so unless they're hiding in a white rose garden, white plumage is a great attention-getter for a hawk or a fox.

Mature hens like white leghorns are super suspicious and they make a hard target for hawks. Movement is a much easier way for a bird-of-prey to find a meal.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

Mature hens like white leghorns are super suspicious and they make a hard target for hawks. Movement is a much easier way for a bird-of-prey to find ,a meal.

Sorry, but white leghorns are the world's most superior breed.
And I am not talking about the layer hybrids from the ABCD system, but for the original ones from Italy.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

I created a new thread, much more interesting than my old one.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/metabolism-and-feeding.1405224/

 

[MysteryChicken]

You can get some really good quality Heritage Barred Plymouth Rocks, & Black Sumatras from Meyer Hatchery. They breed for both Quality, & Quantity.
They sell true Ameraucanas too.

 

[Mitsos Lamprogiorgos]

You can get some really good quality Heritage Barred Plymouth Rocks, & Black Sumatras from Meyer Hatchery. They breed for both Quality, & Quantity.
They sell true Ameraucanas too.
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Thank you, but I live in Greece and I stopped keeping and breeding chickens, because I had no time to do it. I am interesting in learning because I want to translate books about chickens.