Must-Have Breeds for a Beautiful Unique Flock?

[KentuckyRooster]

If I was getting a kid a chicken it would be Cochin or Wilkie. Serama if they were mature/older/gentle.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

Wilkie...Silkie omg

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

Wilkie...Silkie omg

Hahaha I started to Google that before I saw your next post!

I would have loved to get a serama but I have read they can be quite aggressive so I passed...this time.

I've got two cochins - a black Bantam and a buff standard, both of which I think are cockerels. My bantam is the sweetest, cuddliest chickie ever. He comes RUNNING when he hears my voice. The buff is a cranky old thing (he's only seven weeks old but he was old and cranky from birth, haha)

And as a baby...

My two silkies are still too young to know what they'll be like...they seem pretty boring to be honest...they don't really react to much. The rest of my birds are all either comical or elegant or sassy.

The white one is getting pretty irresistible though.. She looks like she was constructed with pompoms and pipe cleaners.

 

[ChickieChickieMama]

And of my chickies I already have, in case anyone else is following for inspiration, I would absolutely recommend my Golden Laced Sebright and my Mille Fleur D'uccle....they're both really beautiful unique birds and have been so sweet and gentle.

If I could have gotten sexed pullets of either breed, I would have bought a golden and a silver sebright and a couple variations of D'uccle!

My Sebright was the CUTEST chick ever.

And my D'uccle is feathering in very beautifully now too.

 

[Mimi13]

And everyone needs a showgirl!

Uh huh, that’s right, a Showgirl. I did get a Naked Neck roo this year and I’m planning on a couple of Silkies next year to hatch out some precious little Showgirls. I can’t wait!

 

[KentuckyRooster]

Hahaha I started to Google that before I saw your next post!

I would have loved to get a serama but I have read they can be quite aggressive so I passed...this time.

I've got two cochins - a black Bantam and a buff standard, both of which I think are cockerels. My bantam is the sweetest, cuddliest chickie ever. He comes RUNNING when he hears my voice. The buff is a cranky old thing (he's only seven weeks old but he was old and cranky from birth, haha)
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My two silkies are still too young to know what they'll be like...they seem pretty boring to be honest...they don't really react to much. The rest of my birds are all either comical or elegant or sassy.

The white one is getting pretty irresistible though.. She looks like she was constructed with pompoms and pipe cleaners.
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A quality serama should never be aggressive to people. Not ever. If you are at a breeder and their birds are being that way walk away. Serama are a calm, intelligent bird which love people. Any that aren't like that need to be culled from the breed.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

This is a serama cock. He's solidly in the throes of his first spring (when all roosters are the worst) and he is a perfect gentleman because he's a properly bred serama with the correct temperament

 

[CannedMonster]

Hahaha I started to Google that before I saw your next post!

I would have loved to get a serama but I have read they can be quite aggressive so I passed...this time.

I've got two cochins - a black Bantam and a buff standard, both of which I think are cockerels. My bantam is the sweetest, cuddliest chickie ever. He comes RUNNING when he hears my voice. The buff is a cranky old thing (he's only seven weeks old but he was old and cranky from birth, haha)
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And as a baby...
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My two silkies are still too young to know what they'll be like...they seem pretty boring to be honest...they don't really react to much. The rest of my birds are all either comical or elegant or sassy.

The white one is getting pretty irresistible though.. She looks like she was constructed with pompoms and pipe cleaners.
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Soooo cute!! I absolutely love bantam Cochins!
I have a little 7 week old mottled cochin cockerel named Frodo.
He’s such an adorable little man!

And my Silkie is starting to get the turquoise earlobes!
I love her hairdo

I have NN also but I’d rather put a Silkie roo over a NN hen than the other way around.
Just because my 8 week old NN cockerels are already so much bigger than my little Silkie.

 

[obicat]

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This is a serama cock. He's solidly in the throes of his first spring (when all roosters are the worst) and he is a perfect gentleman because he's a properly bred serama with the correct temperament

Mine is a feisty little thing with other cocks but never with his hens or people. In fact I am always recommending the breed based on him. Hes a proper little sweetheart. Likes to be picked up and loves attention. He loves climbing up on your shoulder and riding about. Hes always first to greet me and likes to chatter away to me while I'm out there. And this is all while doing the deed and making fertile eggs and being in charge of a mixed age flock from 4 weeks to 18months. Hes a good boy!

 

[obicat]

@obicat I think we must be cut from the same cloth! You knew exactly the kind of wackadoodle chickies I love! Even your profile pic looks like a close-up of mine!

All my chicken friends know that if theres anything weird I'm in!