Thanks for all the help. I'm still leaning towards plymouths since that what we had as kids but The wife is wanting fancy ornamental things like silkies, which I'm hoping to talk her out of (no offense to the silkie lovers :-)
we get nightime lows into the single digits fairly regularly in the...
I'm interested in starting a backyard flock, and I have a few questions regarding breed selection. I live in a part of the country with a fairly extreme climate and am looking for birds that would be tolerant of fairly wild shifts in temperature. I live at around 7,000 feet on the southern...