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Originally Posted by designspl
That is sad. My parents have several rare chickens as well and they breed them with each other as well to help preserve them.
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That's cool. Do you know what breeds they have?
I have several breeds, but the ones I'm most proud of are the old timey Rhode Island Reds. The kind your great grandparents had.
The so-called RIR's sold by the hatcheries for the last 60 years or so have been crossed with leghorns and turned into egg laying machines with no personality. They don't have the beauty and size of the real thing, and have had their broodiness bred right out of them.
The old fashioned ones I have are very scarce. There are only a handful of breeders (me being one of them).