I have the following rooster breeds, all of which are pretty docile:
• Salmon Faverolle
• Old English bantam
• Sultan
• Sultan/Silkie mix (hatched this past spring)
• Buff Orpington
• Light Brahma
• some sort of Maran - still can’t figure out exactly what he is
• Light Brown Leghorn
I’ve got...
Started out by buying chicks last summer, bought more chicks this spring, and now I have a broody Silkie sitting on several eggs. I’m hoping she’ll hatch them, and then that will be my new way of getting chicks moving forward.
We built a coop for $170 last year. It was mostly made of free/cheap pallets, some purchased materials, and materials we had in our shed. This thing is solid and huge. It weighs somewhere around half a ton, and it took seven grown adults to move it when we bought a different house late last...