We raise Black Australorps. Sell ~15 dozen eggs each week, and hatch ~50 chicks each week. “Black” chickens are “in” this year. Can’t hatch enough. The chicken coop is moved each week to keep the nitrogen level from getting out of hand in one spot. We have Red Tails, they don’t bother the hens. Catch a 3’ foot Rat snake each week, take him 10 miles away, he finds his way back. Guess I need to take him farther.
Black chickens are less “obvious” to predators. Chickens who are multi colored are much less so. White chickens might as well have a light beacon to predators. Black ones who roost in trees do not get picked off by owls like white ones.