I know nothing. Teach me, chicken gurus!

[LovlieLayers]

Just wait until you get into ducks and quail. Might as well convert your basement into a coop now and be done with it.

Ducks, I would die for...so adorable, and fantastic eggs. I'd also like goats, come to think of it. Too much for my 1/4acre lot in the city?!

 

[BantyChooks]

Ducks, I would die for...so adorable, and fantastic eggs. I'd also like goats, come to think of it. Too much for my 1/4acre lot in the city?!

I have an easy solution for all that. Move.

Really, though, it's a shame you can't have ducks. I quite enjoy having chickens, and won't ever give them up... But ducks are something else entirely. They seem to be more intelligent and they're just plain fun to be around.

 

[LovlieLayers]

I have an easy solution for all that. Move.

Really, though, it's a shame you can't have ducks. I quite enjoy having chickens, and won't ever give them up... But ducks are something else entirely. They seem to be more intelligent and they're just plain fun to be around.

If we weren't head over heels for our neighborhood, we would! I do have fantasies about getting a small farm property somewhere just out of town, but...that's a whole other ball of wax!

 

[jane s chickens]

Had gold laced wynndottes when my GD was 2. She chased the roos around the yard & had the best time. Their Rose Combs are good in cold weather.

 

[Bluechick2u]

I love naked necks for egg production and extreme temperature tolerance, mine laid in -15 f temps (the eggs froze the first time, had to collect multiple x per day) mine were the only hens laying in my town this winter! I had a very hard time putting them in their coop at night, they wanted to be out in the snow, and during 100 degree days, they run along behind me to see what I'm doing while all my other breeds are looking droopy by the water stations. If I only had to pick one breed, they would be it HANDS DOWN, plus they hold up to confinement well. Side note: where I used to live, there was a 6 hen maximum plus the specific street I lived on prohibited chickens, so I painted my coop camoflage pattern and kept them anyway. Some of my other neighbors made "stealth coops" to look like playhouses. I am extremely opposed to places that restrict hens but not yapping dogs, so I put extra effort into keeping my girls anyway.

 

[BantyChooks]

If we weren't head over heels for our neighborhood, we would! I do have fantasies about getting a small farm property somewhere just out of town, but...that's a whole other ball of wax!

Got any dogs? If not, bet you could have a house call duck or two... Keep 'em in diapers... Bet you'd have a blast with them.

 

[sawilliams]

Ducks, I would die for...so adorable, and fantastic eggs. I'd also like goats, come to think of it. Too much for my 1/4acre lot in the city?!

Lol we just moved form a 1/4 acre in town to 7 acres in the county, but i live in Cali, and need heat tolerant hens not cold hardy. Honestly we had a 6 hen limit in town and i couldn't even keep to that. My most was 14, we had 10 when we moved. And my flock will be expanding very soon

 

[Bluechick2u]

Lol we just moved form a 1/4 acre in town to 7 acres in the county, but i live in Cali, and need heat tolerant hens not cold hardy. Honestly we had a 6 hen limit in town and i couldn't even keep to that. My most was 14, we had 10 when we moved. And my flock will be expanding very soon

Naked necks are the most heat tolerant chickens as far as I know, they can take 120 f just fine. I had mine in southern CA when I lived there, and the best ones I got were from Norco CA where it can reach 120 each summer.

 

[drumstick diva]

Chanteclers were bred to take the severe winters and their small flat combs strongly resist frostbite.

 

[TroisPoulesFrançaises]

Hello, Medicine Friend! (how Madison sounds to me when anyone says it there). I'm sure you already know, but the cold weather breed will be a must there. Ameraucanas are derived from the Araucana, which is originally from Chile. There are some mountainous regions there, so I'm sure those would be cold-hardy chickens.
And as for the basement, well... that IS extra space for chickies! You could always house your non-cold-hardy breeds in there! (or maybe not...) But if you get a hen and it turns out to be a roo, you could always house him in there overnight, if he keeps quiet during the day.