Wyandotte

These are great birds. Mine are very friendly and love to crawl up on my lap for a good petting. They are good with my young children too.

Love him!

I've only had 4 Wyandotte chickens and love(d) every one of them. My fattest hen right now is Girtrude my Silver Laced Wyandotte. She's big and bossy and is 2nd in the pecking order. She gives me 5 eggs a week and is always at the back door ready for some broccoli or some spaghetti noodles. She was broody when she arrived and hopefully she will again soon! This breed is on my top 15 favorites list

I also have 2 BLRW chicks who are just beautiful

This bird is a wonderful bird and they can be a little peckish some times.Good for residental becoause they do not make a lot of noise.I live in CXolorado and it can be realy dry and cold out here but the can with stand it and dont mind to much.I recomend that you should get it.

I picked up 2 Silver-laced Wyandottes in January, just because I love their markings! I was plesantly surprised to find out that they are also lovely birds. Gorgeous markings? Yes! But also, calm and friendly. Mine are at the bottom of the pecking order and still finding their way in my coop. I was worried that I was going to lose a hen yesterday as she off her feed, but she seems much better today. At are 25 weeks old and have not yet started laying. Hopefully soon!

She's a healthy bird, fat and sassy. Only a moderate layer, we get about three eggs a week from her, medium sized and light brown.
Not too friendly, she does not like people and is the only hen who won't come running and begging for treats

have 3 eggs in the incubator so hopefully in 3 weeks I have some wyandottes. 2 blue laced red eggs and 1 silver laced

I bought just one Silver Laced to see what It would look like. The one that I got from Meyer must have not been breed right. Like a colombian rooster got in with the SLW hens. It came out with black dots on the end of the feathers instead of being laced. That one was a super friendly pullet though until I sold her.

I bought one colombian also and she came out with perfect markings but was so shy that I sold her also.

The breed is lovely, as described on BYC, and what I'd hoped for when I purchased my first non-meat birds. Whether golden-laced, silver-laced or white, all have been non-aggressive and great parents.

I have silver, and gold laced along with Blue laced reds. They are beutiful birds and I love to see them free ranging. I see a big differnce in the three lines so I hesitate to judge them. My gold laced are by far the best foragers and lay the largest eggs out of the three but they are the least friendly also. My Blue laced seem to get crop problems and are not near as hardy I have lost three this winter and have not lost any other chickens, egg production is fair but there egss are on the smaller size.. My Silver laced are absolutely beutifull, they started laying first and are pretty consistent layers but there egg size is just a little larger then my one Hamburg hen. I truly believe there is a huge differnce in the many lines of the birds. My silver laced and Blue laced Roos where just nasty and had to go. My Gold laced Rooster is about as layed back as I have ever seen not aggressive to chickens or people.

I have two of these girls, and they are so fun to watch. They're very beautiful and sweet. Mine are still young but there breed will lay nice brown eggs.
This is a great breed.

Fluffy is a standout in our flock of 30. She's beautiful, her eggs are big, and she's so friendly! She's easy to handle, she'll follow us around and let us pet her, and she loves to come in the house and nest on our laps. She can sit there for an hour or more without being disturbed.

She's a joy to have!

even though in my experience wyandottes weren't the best layers nor the best broodies i would still buy them just for the fact that ive never had a pecking problem with them. meaning they have never pecked the new chicks ive added to my flock ever

I have been around Golden Laced Wyandottes and they were very loud and skittish but now I have a Slash Blue Laced Red Wyandotte who is the total opposite. Though she is the slowest to mature, she is very calm, quiet, and beautiful.

cool bird it would be good where i live because its super cold in winter and super hot in the summer coll looking bird too

Love my girls.
They are friendly, easy to keep, great layers and sweet.

After reading the reviews of others, I have to say that of all my hatchery chicks, she was the most friendly and docile. She also reveled in her role as the flock guardian. She would chase any cats that strayed into the yard, and was always on the alert for hawks and the neighborhood fox. She was the only one who dependably layed an egg every day, despite the cold and the short daylight hours. I would highly recommend this breed to anyone. BTW - I purchased my day-old chicks from Meyer's Hatchery in Polk, Ohio via mypetchicken.com. They have a great selection of rare and common breeds and can send as few as 3 chicks.

Of all my LF birds, people comment on my gold laced wyandotte the most when it comes to beauty. Whether gold or silver, they're simply lovely birds. Mine is the least friendly of all my birds, and she can be a bully sometimes toward other (lower) chickens. Because of this, I've been put off adding any more wyandottes, although I think SLWs are stunning. She's a strong layer of medium sized light brown eggs, and is the only one of my original flock of LF to ever go broody, although only once so far. I also have found her to be quite smart, although her intelligence generally hasn't been used for good....lol. She is a hatchery wyandotte, so maybe that has something to do with her temperament???