Your Top Five Favorite Breeds! - Page 8

1. Bantam Cochins - great personality, winter hardy, set on their eggs

2. Game Chickens - hardy, lay well, set on their eggs, good mothers & practical able to free range

3. Bantam Gold Spangled Hamburgs - Love the color and lay well

4. Old English - Don't eat a lot, great personality and available in every possible color

5. Rhode Island Reds - Provide the tastiest eggs

 

That's a good Idea; we should explain why we like our top favourite breeds...

 

 

(in no particular order)

Blue Andalusians - good layers, pretty birds
Delawares - very friendly/nosy, fun chickens
Cochins - great setters, pretty fluffbutts, friendly
Sumatras - elegant, intelligent
Rhode Island Reds - egg machines, super friendly

I have to include my Polish for the eye-candy and comedic value

This is just based on some of my birds, I won't even start on a "want to try" list.

(In no particular order)

1.Light Sussex

 

2.Denizli

 

3.Silkie

 

4.Cochin

 

5.Aseel

1. cochin (both lf & bantam)- they're fluffy and good egg layers

2. brahama - I'm obviously a shallow person, I also like them because they are beautiful. 

3. silkies- because they are pretty and go broody

4.polish because they are silly looking and acting

5.New Hampshire - my first chickens  

cochins,barred rocks,polish,rhode island reds,andcinnimon queens

1. Rhode Island Reds -great layers, tasty eggs, fun personality

2. Buff Orpingtons - Beautiful birds with a gentle easy going personality

3. Partridge Rocks - love the coloring and their laid back personality

4. Black Austrolorps - Great layers, funny birds with easy going nature

5. Easter Egger - Great looking birds with colorful eggs.

1- naked neck
2- frizzle
3- leghorn
4- anconas
5- rocks

Cubalaya, English cuckoo Maran (much more hardy, better laying, active and efficient foraging than the other varieties of the breed), Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock, American Game
 

1. Silkie (getting some babies has restored my faith in silkies, very friendly (most of them), cute, and good yardcandy.

2. Houdan (very friendly, hardy and entertaining, also very unique)

3. d'Uccle (very cute and very friendly)

4. Japanese Bantam (so unique)

5. Sussex (very nice, hardy)