Experiences/opinions on these chicken breeds?

[ky_bird]

Hello chicken community! I was curious to hear your guys experiences with these chicken breeds, I’ll be buying them next spring.
here’s what I’m getting:
- green queen
- easter egger
- salmon faverolles
- Lisa Steele's Cookies and Cream
- buff brahma
- jubilee orpington
The ones I put a star next to are ones I’m most interested in hearing more about!
(Feel free to send chicken pictures too, I love seeing seeing those haha)

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Hi! Out of those, I have experience with 1) easter eggers and 2) brahmas. I don't have experience with specifically buff brahmas, but I have a light brahma and she is the sweetest! She lets me pick her up!

IMO, easter eggers don't live up to the hype. Mine is very, very skittish. So is her daughter. But as far as I know, everyone else that has EEs say that they are nice, generally speaking. Easter eggers can come in all sorts of colors and patterns because they are a hybrid.

I do not have green queens or Lisa Steele's Cookies and Cream. My friend had a green queen in the past and she was super sweet to my limited understanding. But I know that they are both hybrids, and because of that, their personalities will vary widely from bird to bird!
The personalities of a few chickens of one pure breed will still vary but they usually follow the general description of that breed's personality. But if there are a few birds of one hybrid, they may have different parents that are different breeds and from different bloodlines etc. so their personalities will vary greatly... Sorry if that was confusing!

To my understanding, orpingtons are super sweet as are salmon faverolles! I've heard that salmon faverolles are very goofy. And the best part about them is that males and females have different colored feathering than each other so you can tell their sex as soon as feathers start to come in.
I apologize for the long post

 

[AinaWGSD]

I absolutely adore my cookies and cream hen, Artemis. She's very friendly, always wants to be involved in whatever I'm doing. And she's a pretty reliable layer of medium white eggs (when she's not broody anyway). She's a bit of an oddball, a lot of the time she seems to like to just hang out by herself.

Personally I'm a fan of easter eggers. All of the ones I've had have been good layers (except one who had reproductive issues from the start). Personality wise they're kind of a crap-shot. I've had flights, skittish EE and then again two of my all time favorite chickens have been easter eggers.

Those are the only two listed i have personal experience with. I did have a blue orpington once and she was lovely, I wouldn't mind having orpingtons again.

 

[talkinboutchickens]

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I absolutely adore my cookies and cream hen, Artemis. She's very friendly, always wants to be involved in whatever I'm doing. And she's a pretty reliable layer of medium white eggs (when she's not broody anyway). She's a bit of an oddball, a lot of the time she seems to like to just hang out by herself.

Personally I'm a fan of easter eggers. All of the ones I've had have been good layers (except one who had reproductive issues from the start). Personality wise they're kind of a crap-shot. I've had flights, skittish EE and then again two of my all time favorite chickens have been easter eggers.

Those are the only two listed i have personal experience with. I did have a blue orpington once and she was lovely, I wouldn't mind having orpingtons again.

Yes! I did forget to add that my EE is a great layer as well. Stops laying pretty early, like I'm talking Fall, and then starts back up in like February.

 

[ky_bird]

IMO, easter eggers don't live up to the hype. Mine is very, very skittish. So is her daughter. But as far as I know, everyone else that has EEs say that they are nice, generally speaking.

when I was a little kid we had one named grandma and she was the oldest in our flock, she was one of the sweetest chickens I’ve ever owned and is part of the reason why I want to get them again but a lot of people don’t have the same experience as me, I guess it’s just a luck thing haha

 

[MommyGirl]

I love Easter eggers! Here are some of mine

 

[ky_bird]

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Awwww I love them so much, they’re so pretty

 

[FrostRanger]

I assume you are ordering from Meyer?
I have 3 easter eggers from Meyer and they are friendly (although Vanilla is a little skittsh) and they all want to know what I'm doing and if there's food involved. I don't think you'll be disappointed by them.

Not mentioned in your list, but I also have 3 lakeside eggers and they are also just as friendly

I have one of their buff orpingtons and she isn't the brightest bulb, but she's sweet

 

[MommyGirl]

Awwww I love them so much, they’re so pretty

Thank you! They are really sweet and friendly girls as well