https://www.heritageacresmarket.com/dominique-chicken/
Here's one resource anyway; there's lots more via the Dominique Club. They are a very nice calm, docile chicken. Of course it can all come down to the individual birds, but the Speckled Sussex is supposed to be more of an actual lap...
For sure! I ended up with Australorps by happy accident, but I'm so glad it happened that way. ❤️
Another heritage breed I love are the Dominique chicken. They have a rose comb, which is less susceptible to frostbite, and Cackle carries a reputable line of them. Speckled Sussex are another...
Ah! I know the area well! Any basic domestic chicken really is going to do fine. But seriously, have you looked at Australorps? Boom. There's your chicken. ❤️. They even lay over the winter when others have stopped.
I know this is an old post, just chiming in to say that we got our first chicks from TSC (Hoover's) and they have been great! They were the last five in the pullet bin, and we got all 5/5 females! So the horror stories about people getting all roosters or whatever are not necessarily always...