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Lohmann Brown

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A Lohmann Brown hen

The Lohmann Brown is an egg-laying breed of chicken. It is of hybrid origin,[1] and selectively bred from New Hampshires and other brown egg laying breeds.[2] They lay at about 18 weeks, laying about 1 egg per day and laying up to 300 brown eggs a year. Eggs are laid daily, normally dawn or dusk. They are a very inquisitive breed of chicken.

Most Lohmann browns have a caramel/brown shade of feathers, with white feathers in a pattern round their necks, and white feathers at the tips of their tail feathers.

References

  1. ^ Ray Feltwell (17 March 2011), Small-Scale Poultry Keeping: A Guide to Free-range Poultry Production, Faber & Faber, pp. 5–6, ISBN 978-0-571-26539-8
  2. ^ Pammy Riggs; Kimberley Willis; Rob Ludlow (2011), Keeping Chickens for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, p. 49, ISBN 978-1-119-99417-6