Anyone want to help us choose a few new chicks???

[V Chic Chick]

Welsummers are lovely - I used to have one (fox got her) and she laid loads, was docile, inquisitive, calm, pretty etc. etc. Only problem I ever had with her was that when I introduced a new chicken (wyandotte) she attacked her. Still, I sorted that out and in the end they got on alright.

Best breed I ever had. I'm going to try and get one of the Welsummer bantams that are hatched out every spring on the city farm where I work.

 

[hoosierhen]

They all sound great. I have 2 EEs and they are very sweet. They haven't started laying yet though, so as far as good layers, I hope so!
I have to stop reading about everyones new chick orders. It makes me want more! I have vowed to wait until next year to order more- then my girls will be almost 2 years old.


Oh, yeah I have 5 RIRs too (4 hens) they're nice too, but I can't tell them apart!

 

[SeaChick]

Hi guys,

thanks for all your input.... we're still trying to decide which 2 new chicks to get next month. Definitely one EE; we're donsidering a Welsumer, GLW, Partridge Rock or possibly a Salmon Favorelle for the second.

Such a hard choice! Do Salmon Favs lay very light-colored eggs?

Olivia & Stacey

 

[SeaChick]

Oh, rats..... Welsummers are only available straight run!!!! Boo hoo!

 

[roosters97]

not a PR mine are crazy but nice.

 

[Buster]

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My partridge rocks are very skittish. I have a salmon faverolle rooster and my friend has several sf hens. They are very sweet birds and mild mannered. They do lay light colored eggs- not white, but tinted.

 

[Pelican49]

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Pardon the butting in here but . . . I'm still in the planning stages of chickens, but THOUGHT I had decided on Wyandottes. From what I'd read they were quite calm and friendly. Is this not true?

 

[SeaChick]

My Silver Laced Wyandotte is absolutely calm and sweet....... I am sure it depends on the hatchery's line.....

My Barred Rock is very calm and friendly as well. I assumed that would be a "Rock" characteriestic so that's interesting that people are saying their PRs are skittiish. Hmm...

 

[tiki244]

There are good Delawares at the Sandhill Hatchery they are quite large and friendly not flighty

Im going to get some salmon favorelles banty eggs for hatching this spring- after I saw one riding on a little girls bicycle handlebars that cinched it for me

 

[rosyposyosy]

My EE is pretty aggressive, she was once the bottom of the pecking order, but she rised, and now no one is allowed on the roost. She pecks HARD! She is a little skiddish, but not to the point where I can't pick her up.