- Mar 18, 2014
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Hello all,
I am totally new to this site and hoping to have chickens this summer. I would like some help on deciding the breed, based on some specifics. They will be pet egg-layers in Kentucky. This is what I am looking for... *in this order*.
1. Friendly, docile.
2. Able to handle Kentucky temps - about 10 degrees F to 100 degrees F.
3. Very or fairly good egg layers (4 eggs or more a week).
4. At least standard size. My cat brings home small birds, but pays no attention at all to my neighbors free ranging standard size chickens when they are in my yard. So - medium standards or larger.
5. Able to fly better than average. They will be free-ranged at times during the day. There is brush and large tree cover with low hanging branches, so a bird able to roost on the low tree branches would be good to help avoid any possible hawks. Yes, hawk-proof was a joke... I won't be knitting metal armor suits for them.
6. This would be a bonus, not a necessity, but a good forager would also be nice. They will have a very large area to roam so it seems sad to waste the food there, but of course I'll provide the food if they choose instead to sit by the dust pool and bathe all day instead.
Are there any breeds which fit all these descriptions? Or at least the first 4 or 5?
Thanks for any help...
Panorama
I am totally new to this site and hoping to have chickens this summer. I would like some help on deciding the breed, based on some specifics. They will be pet egg-layers in Kentucky. This is what I am looking for... *in this order*.
1. Friendly, docile.
2. Able to handle Kentucky temps - about 10 degrees F to 100 degrees F.
3. Very or fairly good egg layers (4 eggs or more a week).
4. At least standard size. My cat brings home small birds, but pays no attention at all to my neighbors free ranging standard size chickens when they are in my yard. So - medium standards or larger.
5. Able to fly better than average. They will be free-ranged at times during the day. There is brush and large tree cover with low hanging branches, so a bird able to roost on the low tree branches would be good to help avoid any possible hawks. Yes, hawk-proof was a joke... I won't be knitting metal armor suits for them.
6. This would be a bonus, not a necessity, but a good forager would also be nice. They will have a very large area to roam so it seems sad to waste the food there, but of course I'll provide the food if they choose instead to sit by the dust pool and bathe all day instead.
Are there any breeds which fit all these descriptions? Or at least the first 4 or 5?
Thanks for any help...
Panorama
