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The Lohmann Brown is a brown variety of
The Lohmann Brown is a brown variety of chicken
The chicken (''Gallus gallus domesticus'') is a domesticated subspecies of the red junglefowl (''Gallus gallus''), originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is now one of the most common and w ...
, specifically bred for egg-laying purposes. It is a crossbred
A crossbreed is an organism with purebred parents of two different breeds, varieties, or populations. A domestic animal of unknown ancestry, where the breed status of only one parent or grandparent is known, may also be called a crossbreed though ...
line and is selectively bred from lines of the Rhode Island breed. 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). Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...
s 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.
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