The Top 16 Chicken Breeds for Your Backyard Flock

For the past couple decades, chickens have been growing in popularity as people become more interested in knowing where their food comes from, and desire to live a more natural lifestyle. But they are so much more than just egg factories. Watching chickens scratch about the yard is relaxing and de-stressing after a long day at work. Many pet chickens are extremely tame and will eat out of your hand and sit on your lap. Need more convincing that chickens are awesome?

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.