Breed

[SeanBlack]

What breed should i get i need one that is good in winter (Irish) and is a good egg layer

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I'm a huge fan of red sex links--Cinnamon Queens, Red Stars, Golden Buffs--whatever your hatchery decides to call them. They may not be a "breed" per se, but I really love mine. Quiet and calm, and tons and tons of giant eggs.

For a more heritage breed, I like Barred Rocks. Rocks are pretty, lay well through the winter, and are good eating.

I have a true dislike of Buff Orpingtons (they never did lay well, and they ate a ton, and never went broody which is their claim to fame, and had no personality) but many people will probably suggest them.

 

[SeanBlack]

Ya ive read that about the buffs an what about rhode island reds

 

[LukensFarms]

Reds are good and so are barred.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

Ya ive read that about the buffs an what about rhode island reds

I've had Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire Reds. Didn't like either breed. Both were very flighty--worse than my Leghorns, even--and they didn't lay anywhere NEAR as well as my sex-links do.
I keep a RIR rooster, because he makes sex-links with my Barred Rocks and Columbian Wyandottes, but I'm not going to get any more RIR hens. In fact, I sold those hens when they were less than a year old, now that I think about it. I guess I REALLY didn't like them.