If you could breed pure breeds

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

Marans

Did not know about that breed thanks for sharing, Game birds and Malays are awesome too and Cochins.

Whoa that is hard. But I would personally chose the Silkies

Silkies are more popular maybe? There more of a pet kinda chicken then australorps. Silkies are epic critters at the end of the day, I think lots of people like them, there's just no other creature on earth like em.. maybe, some baby owls look like silkies though, those white fluffy ones.

Australorps. They’re the best!

IV only got two australorp NH crosses at the moment there greenish black feathers are cool.

Silkies! Everyone loves the floof!!

Floof fluff silky floofy. Yeah folks just reckon silkies are so great very popular chook to be breeding I guess.

Both!! (And Old English Game Bantams, and Plymouth Rocks, and.... you know, I could go on and on!!)

Both, great answer.. if you had both and they made a Silkie cross australorp wonder what it look like.. very majestic and honorable I'd imagine.

Silkies are so quirky, you have all the color combinations, they're easier to contain, but take aaaageees to sex if they're good quality.

But with australorp, you'll have all the eggs!

Yes silkies look different more then australorps, but silkies do not lay as many eggs, do silkies go broody as much as australorps or Vice Versa anyone know.

Haha, yeah same. I'm actually getting an Australorp hen and a rooster soon. Can't wait!

Congratulations.

Silkies, d'uccles or wyandottes

Yea neat, not sure what duccles are I'll have to give it a Google.

I thought I would never have bantams, however I ended up taking in a bantam hen and her one chick from someones garden 2 days before Ida hit. They were wild and the lady was concerned about what would happen to them during the storm. The chick is getting "big" but I am not sure what breed either one of them is. I will try to get pictures and hopefully someone will have some idea of what breed or breeds their DNA might include.

Cool.

 

[Angel07]

Did not know about that breed thanks for sharing, Game birds and Malays are awesome too and Cochins.

Silkies are more popular maybe? There more of a pet kinda chicken then australorps. Silkies are epic critters at the end of the day, I think lots of people like them, there's just no other creature on earth like em.. maybe, some baby owls look like silkies though, those white fluffy ones.

IV only got two australorp NH crosses at the moment there greenish black feathers are cool.

Floof fluff silky floofy. Yeah folks just reckon silkies are so great very popular chook to be breeding I guess.

Both, great answer.. if you had both and they made a Silkie cross australorp wonder what it look like.. very majestic and honorable I'd imagine.

Yes silkies look different more then australorps, but silkies do not lay as many eggs, do silkies go broody as much as australorps or Vice Versa anyone know.

Congratulations.

Yea neat, not sure what duccles are I'll have to give it a Google.

Cool.

From what I know, silkies go broody pretty often.

 

[3KillerBs]

I've got my Blue Australorps.

I know that they're very popular and there's no arguing with personal taste, but I have no use for Silkies myself.

 

[Angel07]

I've got my Blue Australorps.

I know that they're very popular and there's no arguing with personal taste, but I have no use for Silkies myself.

Yes, that's the other thing. If no one wants the roosters what are you going to do with them? Silkies are pretty small. And is it really wet where you are? Because they're gonna end up pretty messy.

 

[sourland]

That would depend upon your goals.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Out of those two..... Silkies.
I've had Australorps a few times. Very unimpressed with them. At this point I wouldn't even own them let alone breed them.

 

[Lizzy733]

My Silkie is a reliable layer when she's not broody, but spends most of the year broody or recovering. She has a cycle - lay 10-12 eggs, one a day - sit eggs; broody for up to 5 weeks - recover from brooding; sometimes has a broody moult, generally another 3-4 weeks - go back on the lay.

Young silkies are very hormonally driven to brood and have to be taught to practice self-care, meaning you'll be out there twice a day making sure they get off the nest to exercise, dust bathe, eat and drink... Likely for their first year or so of brooding. My girl is 3 now and is much better about self-care than when she started out.

She's been allowed to hatch two clutches - both in the spring/summer after she turned 1. The first clutch was touch and go - had to keep on her for self-care, but she was much better with her late summer hatch.

I've never had much luck breaking her. You could possibly trick them into finishing early by letting them hatch quail eggs since they only take 3 weeks. Thinking about trying this once we get our farm in another month or so.

We've never owned australorp, but I'm familiar with the breed. They're based on the black orpingtons, meant to be less broody and active layers.

My Silkie is my only hen that goes broody. Our next broodiest breed is a Wyandotte who is 2 and she has never gone broody on us. We have black orpingtons in the brooder ATM. They're not as broody by nature as the buff, so we'll see how they go once they've grown up.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Well, out of those two, silkies.

They're broody and I personally will never have an australorp in any of my flocks

 

[Sally PB]

Australorps. They’re the best!

I know that they're very popular and there's no arguing with personal taste, but I have no use for Silkies myself.

Count me in on the Australorps! I really like mine. Even the ones that "turned into" Jersey Giants.

Ditto on "no use for Silkies." I like looking at pictures of other people's, though.

 

[Isadora]

Silkies! Everyone loves the floof!!

Not me. Silkies sound like they have a nice personality, but I personally don't like their look.