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We love our Orloffs! They're bright, excellent foragers (ours hunt and eat mice, centipedes, black widow spiders, and more), interesting to watch, and beautiful. Our rooster is the best head rooster I've ever seen: he manages a large and diverse flock with several lieutenant roosters in charge...

If you can't find someone closer, we have a bantam flock and a large fowl flock with three Buff Orpingtons; your ladies would be welcome here. We're in Redlands, off the 10 freeway.

Hi, backyardahens! Welcome :) We've been keeping chickens for a year and a half. We're on the Yucaipa/Redlands border. We've got babies galore right now.

Hello from Redlands/Yucaipa!

asteria01, did you ever pick out some chickens for LA? I'm in the Inland Empire and we have quite a few breeds which do very well here. L.A. would be even easier and milder in climate. Just make sure they have access to shade, water, and dust baths (they live their dust baths), and they should...

Adorable picture! Congratulations to the ducky winner! :)

Watch for bobcats, hawks, snakes, raccoons, and opossums as well. Build well and your chickens will live safe, happy lives. Ours free range in the day, guarded by their roosters; night is the time we worry about most. However, our yard has plenty of cover for them to hide from hawks, and a full...

Where in the desert are you? Our Easter Egger/Ameraucanas are pretty heat hardy, but so are Silkies. Keep in mind shade, ventilation, and defense against predators. Plenty of hungry critters out there.

Babies playing King of the Mommy :) Mom is a Polish/Silkie cross, the dads are all Polish.

By the way. .. I did get the Ogye chicks, and they've grown up to be a lovely pullet and a very handsome cockerel, so we plan to make them a special home and see if we can get some lovely Ogye babies. The cockerel has probably already fathered some little crosses on our broody silkie hen.

Thank you! Nova and I are happy :D (He's mostly happy because I gave him treats.) It's been a joy watching these threads. .. So many beautiful birds!

Awwww... we had a bobcat that got into our bantams' coop one night... many of the survivors were wounded so badly, we thought they wouldn't make it. Now, they're recovered, thriving, sitting on eggs and raising babies. They're tougher than they look!

So many beautiful chickens!

Well, we seem to be having spring in October here. We have babies who I hope are pure Orloff (we keep a mixed flock), and two Silkie hens sitting big mixed clutches. Here are the babies from the clutch our Orloff hen sat.

We're in Redlands and we've had Coturnix and bobwhites. I find the bobwhites too flighty and their males too aggressive, but they do seem to have a longer laying 'lifespan'. The Coturnix are docile, and as long as they have shade, game bird food, and water, you'll get eggs. Gambel's are the...

Sorry, I'm in California. :/

Here's my dear black rose-comb bantam rooster, Nova, standing on the coop's roof. He's about 6 months old, as best I know... he was a giveaway on Craigslist, and I am so glad to have him. He's the most loving chicken I've ever met!

No, Ogye are their own distinct breed. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGK/Ogye/BRKOgye.html

Ogyes are an old Korean breed with all black feathers, skin, bones, etc. They were mentioned early in this thread.