We just started on chickens. We decided on Buff Orpingtons. We got 14 pullets and 1 cockerel. I am no breeder here, I really wish I would have gotten a variety of different breeds. I would love to have a rainbow of eggs. It is much easier getting them together at the beginning rather than trying to integrate them together later. You have to quarantine them for like 30 days if you add new birds to the flock, so if I were you get a variety of breeds. I wish I would have gotten BO, Ameracaunas, Welsummers, Cuckoo Marans, and EEs. I would love those colors in eggs. I will have them next spring, already have warned my DH.
