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You have some really good dual purpose breeds on your list. Black Australorps are extremely hardy, calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter, made lap pets of ours), and excellent layers of large, brown eggs. Sex Links are egg laying machines. I especially like the Black Sex...

That's interesting. With mine, it's been the opposite. It may depend on which silver gene hens the hatchery uses in producing the RSLs. They vary between White Rocks, Rhode Island Whites, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Delawares, and Light Sussex. Barred Rock hens are usually used for BSLs, but a...

It's up to you, but I personally would wait until early spring. There shouldn't be any less choice then as hatcheries usually hatch in large numbers for spring orders.

Depending on where you are ordering from you may not be able to order that few. Most hatcheries will not ship less than 15 (and some require 25) as fewer chicks do not ship well and losses tend to be high in small shipments. What I always do is order 25 pullets (a couple always turn out to be...

X2 on Percheron chick. You can breed any rooster with a Red Sex Link hen, but since sex links are hybrids to begin with, the offspring will be like a box of chocolates--you never know what you will get. :o) I have had bantams and standard chickens breed on several occasions. In fact...

I've had all of the breeds on your list at one time or another over the past 50 years except the Barnevelder and they are all good breeds, but I am convinced that the best all-around, dual purpose breed on the planet is the Black Australorp. I've raised them since 1979, and they are extremely...