Please suggest breed

[Amer]

What about these?
https://www.huehnervielfalt.de/index.php?id=56

And these?
https://rassegefluegel-much.jimdo.com/bielefelder-kennhuhn/

Not bad. I don't remember 'felder males being so light.

 

[Bimmber]

Second link is from a guy who is bird show judge, I assume his birds should be genuine pure Biels.

 

[bobhoke]

Your first photos are partridge Cochins.

 

[Oddyseous]

Hi guys,

I`m looking for my first ever (!) chicken breed. Could you please help me narrow down to suitable breeds?

What I need is:

1. Large bird, as big as possible. In terms of size, not actual carcass or weight.
2. Ideally brown color. Or at least should be dark (like Bielefelder).
3. Lays x large or jumbo eggs.
3. Shell color - white or brown colors - no unusual or fancy colored shells.
4. Docile/friendly/not aggressive.
5. Auto sexing - would be nice!
6. They are intended for eggs only, so no need to be dual or meaty breed (I`ll keep COBB 500 for meat separately). Ideally at least 250 eggs per year.
7. I don`t mind if they start laying at later age - I`m not in rush.
8. Good mothers as I don`t plan to have incubator - let nature do its job and chickens (and me) experience them being mothers.
9. Winters do get very cold here, sometimes up to -20 celsius (-68 far.), so, hardy birds would be welcomed.
10. Not very noisy breed.

They will be kept as organic and free range - with freedom to go outside and eat grass, worms and have fun in the sun I have 20.7 acres of farmland/forest for them to roam.

After lots of reading, I have noted few breeds which might be suitable - Rhode Island, Lohmann Brown+, Bielefelder. Please suggest more.

Thank you chicken people

Jersey Giant

 

[varidgerunner]

These threads follow a predictable trend. What breed can do all these things (insert things) well.

First lets look at what a breed is. In some instances it is a purpose bred animal that has been intensively selected to exhibit certain useful traits. Sometimes the traits that are selected for aren't useful, someone just thought they were neat. Other breeds were just random mutts, that through geographical and sometimes political circumstances , melted into one localized landrace, maybe special and unique, maybe just a different colored crayon from the box of crayons.

Then, at some point, someone crates a breed standard, and then the only things selected for are appearance traits. Hathceries come along and mass produce chickens that can reasonably pass for the named breed based on appearance, and many times have no other similarity.

Important thing to remember about traits, some traits are antagonistic to other traits. If the birds even have the traits that get circulated in all the catalogs to peddle the birds that resemble the birds mentioned in the breed description. "What breed" becomes an invalid question, when you realize that there are too many variables to answer it. "What specific line within a breed" would be a more proper question. But with a laundry list of opposing traits that usually cancel each other out, still hard to answer.

Remember, a jack of all trades is master of none. Most purpose bred breeds are bred to do one thing, and do it well.

 

[JRCOOKFL]

The RIR is a very easy bird to care for. They lay eggs almost every day. they are gr8 mothers. they are somewhat quiet. They also sell very well---chicks and eggs