@The Farmers' Daughter &
@Kris5902
Hi! I’m just starting my chicken journey. My coop is at this stage:
I can only get 5 chickens where I am at, so I’ve been trying to decide what to get myself (I seriously never imagined how hard it would be to decide on chickens when you want 20 and can have 5

). I’ve been looking at splash/blue Australorps, speckled Sussex, Orpingtons, Ameraucanas and Salmon Faverolles.
I had tried to get a Svart Hona but it looks like the breeder had a problem and her eggs didn’t hatch, which meant that I had to push back getting chicks. So that shortened my list a little.
A friend of mine is ordering a large bunch of different breed chicks from Performance Poultry for April, including faverolles, a nice lady from up island has put a batch of Austrlorp eggs in the incubator, and there is a couple who are getting chickens for April in Metchosin that I am seriously looking at. The hardest part for me is that I think I should only get three chickens this year then maybe two more in 2 years?
So I think this time around I’m going to get an australorp, ameraucana and a faverolles. That’s my plan anyways!
But I read some bad reviews on performance poultry, so I was wondering if the faverolles I was thinking of getting would be healthy, and I put out the call on the real farmers of Vancouver island (fb group) to see if anyone was breeding them here.
@Kris5902 we have been having great weather! I hope you get to take advantage of it! I’m going to do some painting on the coop today to keep the forward momentum going on it. Our steel roof should be here any day so I want to get all the wood structure well weather sealed before putting it up.
What have you two got for chickens? Anything you can tell me, as I’m a chicken newb, about tips for having chickens in the pacific north west type weather?
Cheers!!