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Dual-purpose chickens were designed for meat and eggs, but they have never lay such many eggs as special laying breed and they don`t grow up so fast as meat breed. Most dual-purpose breeds were originated in United States, for example, New Hampshire, Plymouth Rock, Black Sex Link and other.

All of these breeds will give you brown eggs. Their eggs are smaller and weight less than 1 pound. Though hybrids are more effective, breeders prefer pure breeds because crossed chickens don`t have hereditary properties.

Your flock will replacement all time if you will raise pure breeds, that`s their advantage. If there will be many cockerels in your flock, you can raise them for meat.

Chickens of all breeds lay eggs. But some hens produce more eggs than others. The best result that you can keep is 200-250 eggs for the year. Around the world people prefer white eggs. Mediterranean chickens will give you more white eggs than other breeds, for example, Ancona, Leghorn and Minorca.

The most demand chicken`s breed for commercial producing is Leghorn.

Crosses breeds are commonly used because of their productivity. Many breeders use strains for commercial raising layers. But it`s easier to raise hens which give brown eggs. As usual hybrids or dual-purpose breeds produce brown eggs.

Chickens lay recording eggs quantity during their first year. But after egg`s number become reduces.