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1/29/13 at 11:53am
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What breed should i get i need one that is good in winter (Irish) and is a good egg layer ;) wink.png

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post #2 of 5
1/29/13 at 1:25pm

I'm a huge fan of red sex links--Cinnamon Queens, Red Stars, Golden Buffs--whatever your hatchery decides to call them. They may not be a "breed" per se, but I really love mine. Quiet and calm, and tons and tons of giant eggs.

 

For a more heritage breed, I like Barred Rocks. Rocks are pretty, lay well through the winter, and are good eating.

 

I have a true dislike of Buff Orpingtons (they never did lay well, and they ate a ton, and never went broody which is their claim to fame, and had no personality) but many people will probably suggest them.

We have a flock of 75-ish hens: Blue Copper Marans, Barred Rock, Red Sex Links, Black Sex Links, Easter Eggers, Tetra Tints, white Leghorns, dark Cornish, various colors of Rocks, some barnyard mixes, a Wyandotte and a little Buttercup, who's just here for pretty. 

 

Also 35 broilers plus five Easter Egger cockerels in the meat pen. But they won't be here long. 

 

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We have a flock of 75-ish hens: Blue Copper Marans, Barred Rock, Red Sex Links, Black Sex Links, Easter Eggers, Tetra Tints, white Leghorns, dark Cornish, various colors of Rocks, some barnyard mixes, a Wyandotte and a little Buttercup, who's just here for pretty. 

 

Also 35 broilers plus five Easter Egger cockerels in the meat pen. But they won't be here long. 

 

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post #3 of 5
1/30/13 at 11:47am
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Ya ive read that about the buffs an what about rhode island reds

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post #4 of 5
1/30/13 at 10:45pm
Reds are good and so are barred.
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post #5 of 5
1/31/13 at 4:42am
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Ya ive read that about the buffs an what about rhode island reds

I've had Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire Reds. Didn't like either breed. Both were very flighty--worse than my Leghorns, even--and they didn't lay anywhere NEAR as well as my sex-links do.

I keep a RIR rooster, because he makes sex-links with my Barred Rocks and Columbian Wyandottes, but I'm not going to get any more RIR hens. In fact, I sold those hens when they were less than a year old, now that I think about it. I guess I REALLY didn't like them. :) 

We have a flock of 75-ish hens: Blue Copper Marans, Barred Rock, Red Sex Links, Black Sex Links, Easter Eggers, Tetra Tints, white Leghorns, dark Cornish, various colors of Rocks, some barnyard mixes, a Wyandotte and a little Buttercup, who's just here for pretty. 

 

Also 35 broilers plus five Easter Egger cockerels in the meat pen. But they won't be here long. 

 

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We have a flock of 75-ish hens: Blue Copper Marans, Barred Rock, Red Sex Links, Black Sex Links, Easter Eggers, Tetra Tints, white Leghorns, dark Cornish, various colors of Rocks, some barnyard mixes, a Wyandotte and a little Buttercup, who's just here for pretty. 

 

Also 35 broilers plus five Easter Egger cockerels in the meat pen. But they won't be here long. 

 

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