Wings useful but bee better
I have a few old fashioned chicken pure breeds
The Black Orpington is a breed created by Wm Cook around 1880
The breed was a great egg layer and dual purpose so they were large and good for eating
Some were exported as far afield as Australia where a hen set a record by laying 364 eggs in a single year
Back here in the UK show breeders started breeding for size leg colour beak wings etc.
Today thanks to that breeding we have a UK Orpington that is huge and fluffy and can hardly manage a couple of dozen eggs a year
In Australia they selected for egg laying and those birds are called Australorps
Australorps are rated as good egg layers even now (although these days they are suffering because of show breeding for feathers)
Hence I'm not a wing man myself
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