BackyardZen
In the Brooder
Hello Community,
My wife and I will be getting 6 chicks soon and are in the process of building a chicken tractor for pasture-raising the chickens in our backyard. We are hoping to get quiet, friendly and easy-to-manage birds.
We are probably going to get 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Speckled Sussex as I understand both are friendly birds (MyPetChicken lists them as such). My wife wants some colored eggs, so we will probably get 2 Easter Eggers, but I am a little nervous as there seems to be a consensus that they are on the flighty side. I read some reporting they like to hang out in trees.
Does anyone have any thoughts about Easter Eggers being hard-to-manage, noisy or unfriendly?
BackyardZen
My wife and I will be getting 6 chicks soon and are in the process of building a chicken tractor for pasture-raising the chickens in our backyard. We are hoping to get quiet, friendly and easy-to-manage birds.
We are probably going to get 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Speckled Sussex as I understand both are friendly birds (MyPetChicken lists them as such). My wife wants some colored eggs, so we will probably get 2 Easter Eggers, but I am a little nervous as there seems to be a consensus that they are on the flighty side. I read some reporting they like to hang out in trees.
Does anyone have any thoughts about Easter Eggers being hard-to-manage, noisy or unfriendly?
BackyardZen