Help me select a breed

[NatJ]

Thank you for your answer.
Will the mixed chickens keep the broodiness though?

Some might, some might not. You can keep track of the ones that do go broody, and keep them as long as they stay in good health.

For laying hens, you will usually not want to keep them for very many years, because each year they lay fewer eggs than the year before. But a broody hen can usually keep raising chicks every year for many more years than that. So the broody hens do not need replacing as often as the egg layers. That means you don't need to raise or buy as many replacements for the broody hens as you would for the egg layers.

 

[Amer]

Aren't those terrible brooders? Not sure about the Hamburg

Oh, IDK
I know Anconas go broody every once and a while, but not so excessively that they never lay.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Are Phoenix an egg laying breed though?

Hamburgs, rose comb Anconas and Rose combed Leghorns would all be good choices.

They are when not brooding.

 

[Konstantinos]

Researching for different breeds i found some contrasts.
For example australorps are heat hardy or more prone to heatstroke than other breeds?
Dominique egg production is 100-150 or 200-230?Are they broody or not?

also can someone compare new hampshire to dominique?

 

[NatJ]

Researching for different breeds i found some contrasts.
For example australorps are heat hardy or more prone to heatstroke than other breeds?
Dominique egg production is 100-150 or 200-230?Are they broody or not?

The same breed can have different traits if it comes from a different breeder or a different hatchery.

So Australrops from one breeder or hatchery might be more prone to heatstroke than other breeds. But Australorps from another breeder or hatchery might be heat hardy (especially if that breeder or hatchery is in a hot climate, and has spent several generations breeding only from the individuals that tolerate the heat best.)

For broodiness, some hens will go broody and some will never go broody, while some hens will go broody under one set of conditions but not another. How many hens fall in which group can be different if they are from one breeder or hatchery, or a different one.

The very same birds can produce different numbers of eggs if they are raised & housed in different conditions. Supplemental light in the winter months can make a very large difference in how many eggs a hen lays each year. Climate can also make a difference, as well as broodiness (because a broody hen is not laying.) Beyond that, some breeders or hatcheries will have selected very strongly for good egg production while ignoring most other traits, while some other breeders or hatcheries will have selected for good meat qualities & body shape, along with reasonably good egg production (but egg production not as high as the eggs-only selection.)

Everything you read is probably true of some Australorps. If you are able to get Australorps, I do not know which things are more likely to be true of the ones in your area.

 

[Amer]

Researching for different breeds i found some contrasts.
For example australorps are heat hardy or more prone to heatstroke than other breeds?
Dominique egg production is 100-150 or 200-230?Are they broody or not?

also can someone compare new hampshire to dominique?

Dominiques are a good breed for that. And yes, they go broody.
New Hampshire are more of a dual purpose breed.

 

[Konstantinos]

Two more questions are dominiques heat tolerant?
And what about easter eggers, do they brood?

 

[fluffycrow]

Two more questions are dominiques heat tolerant?
And what about easter eggers, do they brood?

A word about EEs. Here you don't see any that resemble their founding breeds. They have been bred to pretty much anything, so it is a total mystery. You might have one that's broody, one that's not. One that lays a lot of eggs, one that does not. Plus the only way you can find them is by hatching coloured eggs, or from getting them from a backyarder. No serious breeders or hatcheries that I know of carry them

 

[Amer]

Two more questions are dominiques heat tolerant?
And what about easter eggers, do they brood?

Probably, they aren’t all that fluffy.

 

[Konstantinos]

Will i get Easter eggers if i cross Ameraucanas roosters to New Hampshire hens?