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Fuzzymilo

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Hi all!

My hubby and I are planning to get some backyard chickens so we can enjoy chickens as pets (and fresh eggs).

I originally found this site due to the breed reviews, but I'm sticking around to learn about raising chickens.

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Welcome!

Good luck with your chickens! They are a lot of fun, a great hobby, and supply great eggs. They have a lot of personality, some of them certainly being more irritating and others more sweet. They make great backyard pets.

Best of luck to you!
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I'm thinking I'd like to try a couple Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds or Easter Eggers, and a couple Red Stars.

What breeds do you have/like?
 
Welcome to BYC!

We have the 4 breeds you list plus Speckled Sussex and Barred Plymouth Rocks in our mixed flock. For great egg laying (and very fun personalities) I really like the Red Sex Links. For their very sweet personalities, I love the SS. The BA seem to handle the heat the best. They all have their plusses and minuses.

Choosing your flock members is so much fun, lots of choices and something for everyone and every situation.

Have fun!
 
Thanks! I was also considering the Speckled Sussex and Barred Rocks, but I didn't want to order six different types of chickens. It seems like too many. Although I've read they all do pretty well together.
 
We have Barred Rocks, Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Easter Eggers, Sebrights, Silkies, Old English Game Bantams, and lots of others, including mixed breed chickens. We also have the Red Stars, and they are very friendly and good egg layers, but I should warn you that because they are bred for production they seem more prone to illness and egg binding. One year I lost three of them to an unknown illness in the winter and none of my other breeds were effected.
I find the Rhode Island Reds to be full of personality. They love to get themselves into all sorts of trouble. They are also good layers.
My leghorns cause some of the most trouble. One of my leghorns went broody (which they aren't suppose to do), another was an egg eater (near constantly), and a third got hit by a car (foraging on the road isn't a smart idea. We put up a fence after that). They're also good at flying.
Easter Eggers are friendly, intelligent, good layers, and good foragers. They're also good escape artists
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In the end it is up to your own taste. What you think looks good and what does well in your climate.
I hope it works out to be awesome!
 
Fuzzymilo said:
I'm thinking I'd like to try a couple Black Australorps, Rhode Island Reds or Easter Eggers, and a couple Red Stars.

What breeds do you have/like?
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Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. Black Australorps are my favorite standard breed. I raised them for years (along with dozens of other breeds), and they are extremely hardy in both heat and cold, calm and gentle (my children and granddaughter made lap pets of them), and excellent layers of large, brown eggs. Red Star is one of our number of labels under which some hatcheries market their Red Sex Links which are laying machines. You should get loads of large, brown eggs from a couple of those girls. :o) 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 to BYC! Please make yourself at home and we are here to help.

I would recommend sussex, buff orpington, black australorp, barred rock and easter egger chickens. All are great layers, good as pets and hardy in most weather climates.

I love your avatar! Very pretty flower!
 
My Speckled Sussex and Buff Orpingtons have been my favorites of all the breeds we have had. We raised Barnvelders (they were my first try at hatching), silkies, australorps, partridge rocks, Rhode Island reds, and a few others. I look for sweet tempered birds that are cold hardy and good layers. Since you are in SoCal, you will not need to worry about the cold hardy part!:lol:
 

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