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Mixed flocks are great! You've picked out some nice breeds already.
 
Glad you joined the flock. Silkies make great pets - and are usually great with kids. You could always have yours as a housepet, to prevent bullying by other breeds in the coop.

Check out the "People with house chickens," thread. Lots of folks do it, especially in areas where chickens are not allowed. Most people have never seen one and think they are some type of dog. Or you could say it was a parrot
 
Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. Those are all good breeds you are interested in getting (Orpingtons are especially friendly and gentle), but I would personally not mix a Silkie in with those standard breeds. Being bantams, Silkies are so much smaller than the other breeds on your list that they will likely get battered by them. One breed you should really consider based on your criteria are Black Australorps. I have raised them for years and they are extremely hardy, calm and gentle (my children, and now my granddaughter made lap pets out of them), they handle confinement very well, are fairly quiet (as chickens go), and they are the best layers of the standard brown egg laying breeds. A Black Australorp holds the brown egg laying record with 364 eggs in 365 days, and while none of mine have reached that level of productivity (and likely never will), I have had a few of them lay over 300 eggs in a year. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Whatever breeds you decide to get, good luck with your flock.
 
Welcome
Im a newbie too
First I bought
2 Leghorns
2 Easter eggers
2 Orpingtons

Then a month or so later I bought
2 Rhode Island Reds
2 Barred Rocks

09/06/14 edit
2 Blue Wyandottes

I think one of the barred rocks is something else, but she's so cute and cool it doesn't matter.

The BR s and RIRs are so much friendlier.

The first six are skittish, but if you ignore them they come around, like most girls, lol. Sorry had to throw that in.
 
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