If you are going to raise chickens, you will need to know the available breeds and descriptions. The first thing to decide is which breed will best suit the needs for your raising chickens. Chickens come in many shapes, colors and sizes and this will be a major decision. A breed is a group of which all in this group will have the same physical features such as body shape or type, skin color, carriage or station, number of toes and featured or non-feathered shanks.
Variety is a sub-division of a breed.
Strains are families or breeding populations possessing the same common traits. Leghorns were named after the city of Leghorn, Italy, their place of origin. A small, spritely, noisy bird with lots of style. They are good foragers, like to move about, often glean much of their diet from barnyards and fields. They can fly easily and will actually roost in trees.