Yes, they are. Especially when you see them in person. They are very calm, sweet, and confident. Mine actually will go between two fighting girls to break the fight! She can live quite long as other heritage chickens. Mine is not a very good layer (about 3 eggs per week), but I heard some lay good.
wow! I am not allowed a rooster so another win is that they are auto sexing!! I might go with a bielefelder! do you have any pictures of yours?
I believe the term you may be looking for is closer to just being "purebred."
Lavender Orpingtons. I have 47 Breeds and Varieties so I have just enough experience to be dangerous.
My favorite chickens are the Midnight Majestic Marans. Their black feathers have iridescent green and blue coloring, truly making them majestic. They are sweet girls and great layers. My Buffs and Sussex girls are also very sweet, but the Marans, are by far the best layers and the most easy going breed I have ever had.
We have a couple 13ish week old bielefelders who are Great. We got them at around 7-8 weeks old from a farm but they are somehow just as relaxed and friendly as our hand raised babies. The hen is very sweet and rarely involved in squabbles. And so far no signs of aggression from the rooster.
Love them so far.
I agree about Easter Eggers, they follow me around my garden and when I say bug they come running to where I'm pointing, my Cuckoo Marans also do this. I had a Rhode Island red rooster he flogged horribly I was glad the coyotes took him, I had to carry a rake with me and he would come at me from behind, man that rooster was a butthead! Lol
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