need advice on adding to my flock

[chickenmomma6]

My favorites are my Easter Eggers because they are pretty colors and have sweet calmer personalities.

My Silver Laced Wyandottes have the prettiest feathers though. Their coloring and pattern is very striking.

Good luck finding some new girls to add to your flock

thank you

 

[Barbs Girls]

We have 2 RIR- their fun! 2- sapphire gems- beautiful feathers, loud voices and big eggs! 2 Astralorps- fun attitudes and 1 ISA Brown- layed first and likes to hang out with me. I think the gems are a favorite by visitors. But...I haven’t met a chicken I haven’t liked yet. Had a BO that turned out to be a roo, very sad cause we couldn’t keep him and he was just the sweetest.

 

[chickenmomma6]

Lavendar Orpington's make pretty docile pets and lovely eggs

I'll have to look into them. do they handle the cold pretty good

 

[frostic]

ok thank you. I have 3 black australorps so I kinda wanted to explore different breeds. they are only pets/ for eggs. any suggestions

i love my rhode island reds. they are so pretty.

 

[frostic]

northern Michigan, summer can get hot. winters usually snowy and sometimes super cold sometimes not so bad

When I lived in ohio and it got very cold there. my mom had troubles with her chickens as kids at night we would bring them in at night, they were leghorns. That's why I now have chickens here in cali its nice and hot. lol

 

[KikiLeigh02]

I believe so. Love my Lavender Orps, they're my avatar. They are very friendly and get along really well with my Australorps.

I'll have to look into them. do they handle the cold pretty good

 

[Maggieisabelle]

ok thank you, I'm gunna start looking at the different breeds and learning more about them

I really like Ameraucanas! My Ameraucana is so sweet and loves attention! Mine hasn’t started laying but they lay the prettiest eggs!

 

[BreezyBre]

I'll have to look into them. do they handle the cold pretty good

Yes they are ! Mine are pretty friendly too Mind you they won't let me cuddle them like my silkie will ( I call her Cuddle Chicken lol ) but they follow me and like a pet here n there .

 

[aart]

I'm building a new coop and run, I lost 2 of my hens to coons which left me with 3 hens ( just started laying). I wanna add a couple more. I will have a separate area in the run for the newbies so they all can see each other and be around each other without actually being with each other. run will be 6 ft tall 6 ft wide and 10ft long, coop is 6 ft tall 6 ft long and 5 ft wide. what else should I do for safe introduction. should I get newbies the same age or chicks and introduce when they are old enough. any advise would be awesome

Adding birds can be tricky, best if you have some extra space in both coop and run,
it can take weeks to fully integrate.

Tho in Northern Michigan a 6x5 coop is perfect for 3 birds...during those days long snow storms they won't be leaving the coop, unless your run is snow and wind proof.
Snow loads on coop and run roofs are something to keep in mind while building, you don't want to have to dig them out in the middle of a snow storm. BTDT-not fun.

I would strongly suggest that you get thru your first winter before adding more birds.

 

[Pugsabi]

I agree with aart. But if you do decide to add chickens this year, I highly suggest you get two of the same kind/color. Since you already have three of the same kind, you can have trouble integrating if you get one that is too different from the others. For example, if you were to get a black sex link and a road island red, more than likely all the black birds would gang up on the one red bird. So it would be best to get two red/lavender/white/etc vs getting one red and one white. I have a small mixed flock, but all of them are different colors and types, so they don't gang up on the odd one out.
Of course, like everything else, your mileage may vary. Chickens, I find, have ways of surprising you.