The Lohmann Brown is a brown variety of chicken, specifically bred for egg-laying purposes. It is a crossbred line[1] and is selectively bred from lines of the Rhode Island breed and White Rock breeds.[2] They start to lay eggs at about 19 weeks and produce up to 320 eggs up to an age of 72 weeks (one year production). Eggs are laid nearly daily, normally during the morning hours.
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.
References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ Pammy Riggs; Kimberley Willis; Rob Ludlow (2011), Keeping Chickens for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, p. 49, ISBN 978-1-119-99417-6
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lohmann Brown.
 | This poultry article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |