The Top 16 Chicken Breeds for Your Backyard Flock

Buff Laced Polish Hen: Buff Laced Polish are very rare breed of chickens. Polish chickens are a European breed known for their distinctive crests, or top hats. Polish chickens are gentle and docile, but their crests can limit their vision making them timid and easily startled. These birds have rich, golden buff feathers neatly laced in creamy white, and dainty slate blue shanks and toes. The flowing crests and sprightly carriage make them one of the most prized breeds. Buff Laced Polish hens are good, productive white egg layers and rarely go broody and non-setters. Day-old baby chicks are a creamy buff color with a dark tan mark over each eye.