Want to add more chickens in the spring as my current hens are 3 years old and we’d like a few more eggs but my problem is I have a million breeds I want to try... Made up a mock cart just for kicks, but I need help narrowing it down. Can’t get them all. This isn’t even all the breeds I want either! Also considered some other breeds like Brahmas, Cochins, and Leghorns. But anyway, this is obviously 10 chickens and while I could make another coop and run easily and was considering doing just that/keeping a separate flock so I could try all the breeds I want to try and not have to limit it (we have 2.48 acres), I think it would be easier to just add a few birds to my current flock and coop. Quarantined first of course. So anyway, in order to do that, I need to limit it to about 3 to 4, which is really hard because all of these breeds sound great and I want to try all of them. Looking for decent egg layers and not total free loaders BUT my 3 year olds are starting to slow down a little bit and I am keeping those so also important to me is their personality. Both with me and other hens. Friendly hens would be nice but they don’t have to be super cuddly or anything, though I wouldn’t mind if they were. And not too mean to other hens, although maybe younger hens wouldn’t bully older hens? And looks are important too hence all the fancier looking breeds. My current flock is mostly black and orange birds and while I love them, it is a little bit boring and plain looking lol I currently have 1 Barred Rock, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Buff Orpingtons, and 2 Easter Eggers.
most things I’ve read seem to be about 50/50 on the breed, people either love them or they hate them, there doesn’t really seem to be much middle ground. And all the negatives you guys are mentioning are pretty big ones. Definitely don’t want another hen that eats a lot but doesn’t lay a lot, my Australorps are already like that ha
