Help me decide which breed

[skywatcher]

Most all good egg laying breeds have had the broodness bred out of them,don't exspect any of those breeds to sit on a clutch of eggs to hatch. All the breeds you mentioned are great egg layers the fastest growing with the most meat at 16 weeks would be the rocks. orps look huge but its all feathers.

 

[hencrazy]

Still trying to make up my mind, but I think I would like to get an orp roo since I have a few buff orp hens already. This spring my orps were annoyingly broody so that wouldn't be a problem. The big problem is finding an orp roo that will be ready for breeding by the spring. Nobody lives in Minnesota. I've posted ads on here and other places - even offering to trade several of mine - but I don't get any replies.

If all goes well with the orps then I would like to try some rocks for the following year.

 

[jaku]

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Yeah, I have a B.O. that keeps going broody on and off. I have to get gloves to collect eggs to keep from getting pecked to death. ANNOYING!

 

[Promiselandfarm]

We have both the Buff and the White Rocks... our whites are huge girls and good broody mom's they were actually better mom's than the Buffs. They stayed with the chicks longer. I really think those chicks are way bigger than any I have seen; but they do free range during the day were as the ones without moms have to say in a pen. Our Buff moms did okay but our RIR moms who went broody were horrible moms they left the nest and stole others chicks then decided they did not want them. We said we would not let them go broody again just put their eggs under a white rock instead.
And the buckeye trio we have ...those things grow fast and huge! We did breed a JG to a Buff and got a very nice heavy hen which on her beauty sold today....but if you had to eat a hen that cross would be it for me.

 

[greyfields]

http://www.jmhatchery.com/free-range-broiler/colored-range-chicks/prod_5.html

 

[hencrazy]

Yay! I finally made up my mind. I am hoping to find an orpington roo to breed to my BO girls. Eventually I would like breed quality birds - not just my hatchery stock girls - but hopefully that will come in time. My buffs are about the most reliable eggs layers I have - they even outlay my stars. The eggs are large and the girls handle confinement over the winter and the cold weather really well. I have never heated my coop or provided artificial lighting and they still layed all winter. Plus, they are pretty to look at!

So that means I'm looking for a BO roo. I would love to find a blue hen or two and a roo. Anybody got any???