Dekalb Amberlink

The Dekalb Amberlink is a very popular chicken for free range, cruelty free, alternative production methods. They are very adaptive to non-cage operation, forages well, and have exceptional feather retention, being one of their best features for free range farms and other operations. Most popular in the United States in the 1970s, the Amberlink has become a relatively common chicken species to be used on small house poultry farms. Mainly white with some amber brown feathers, the Amberlink is not currently recognized as a standard breed. It is often listed as either a hybrid resulting from reverse-crossing of the parent line. Amberlinks lay light to medium rich brown eggs, laying about 270 eggs a year. The temperament of the Amberlink is conducive to small backyard flocks as it is both docile and social as long as they have had the opportunity to socialise from a young age with both other chickens and humans.