Puhlese!! Help us decide a direction?!?

[Ruthster55]

From your list:

If you can get good stock of Ayam Cemani (no leakage) and good-quality Light Brahmas, I would choose those. I believe that Ayam Cemanis are still popular, and good Brahmas are irresistibly fluffy. Several varieties of Brahmas are certainly in the Standard. I don't think the Ayam Cemanis are in the standard, but if you consult with other breeders and read up on here, you should be able to find out the basics.

People might be interested to buy hatching eggs or chicks of both Svart Hona and Ayam Cemani.

As for the third one on your list, I would pick the Gold Campines to round out the list with a white egg layer that will produce a good number of eggs for sale. That way, you will always have some egg production even some of the others start slacking off or going broody.

You must have some setup! Would love to see pics of a few of your coops and runs!

 

[RainbowHen]

If it were me I would go with the:
Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner
Swedish Flower
Barnvelders

All lovely and popular birds. These days it seems like people are looking for the more obscure breeds. Good luck!

 

[dbtcowgirl]

From your list:

If you can get good stock of Ayam Cemani (no leakage) and good-quality Light Brahmas, I would choose those. I believe that Ayam Cemanis are still popular, and good Brahmas are irresistibly fluffy. Several varieties of Brahmas are certainly in the Standard. I don't think the Ayam Cemanis are in the standard, but if you consult with other breeders and read up on here, you should be able to find out the basics.

People might be interested to buy hatching eggs or chicks of both Svart Hona and Ayam Cemani.

As for the third one on your list, I would pick the Gold Campines to round out the list with a white egg layer that will produce a good number of eggs for sale. That way, you will always have some egg production even some of the others start slacking off or going broody.

You must have some setup! Would love to see pics of a few of your coops and runs!

My boys love the AC for the novelty so they are definitely on the short list. I am a fluff fanatic so I love the Brahma. Our campines are a new addition but are enjoying them, they are fun and great layers. We have an 80 acre farm that we raise horses, cattle, pigs and goats on. When we decided to take chickens more seriously we converted a mare barn into our chicken areas. Some is still a work in progress, but I have a photographer coming out in the spring to take pictures of everything when it's complete. It's a really fun project for my kids and I, we are enjoying it together.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Let us know when you can ship eggs/chicks. I'd be interested to, especially if it happened before next spring

 

[dbtcowgirl]

Wow - what fun.

You have several breeds that I have never heard of and went to look them up. I would be interested in looking at your birds and eggs. PM me.

Mrs K

I will be in touch. We spent countless hours researching and visiting breeders

Wow - what fun.

You have several breeds that I have never heard of and went to look them up. I would be interested in looking at your birds and eggs. PM me.

Mrs K

My boys and I spent countless hours researching and visiting breeders before we decided what to try. It's been a really fun project

 

[dbtcowgirl]

If it were me I would go with the:
Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner
Swedish Flower
Barnvelders

All lovely and popular birds. These days it seems like people are looking for the more obscure breeds. Good luck!

Those are three of my favorites. So pretty, and I enjoy having something different.

 

[dbtcowgirl]

Let us know when you can ship eggs/chicks. I'd be interested to, especially if it happened before next spring

I will keep everyone posted on our progress. We are excited for our little program.

 

[Ruthster55]

I will keep everyone posted on our progress. We are excited for our little program.

You might enjoy starting a diary in
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/pictures-stories-of-my-chickens.39/

With all your birds, there will certainly be something happening every day!

You might enjoy these two forums -

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/exhibition-genetics-breeding-to-the-sop.16188/
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/general-breed-discussions-faq.14/

 

[NatJ]

Svart Hona and Ayam Cemani are both supposed to be all-black, single-comb chickens who lay light-colored eggs. I understand that there must be some differences, but they sure share some really obvious similarities! So it might not make sense to have both of them.

For every breed on your "maybe" list, I can think of excellent reasons to include it, so I really don't know what to suggest! The Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner look cool when I look them up, I've always liked the color of Silver Laced Wyandottes, Barnevelders are so pretty and lay dark eggs, Swedish Flower hens are neat for the variety of colors...

 

[thepick4uchicks]

My boys and I are carefully building our flocks with the goal of selling hatching eggs and raising chicks in mind. We have spent countless hours building the following flocks. Searching for the best quality and representatives of the breeds. We have currently built good flocks of these chickens, and come spring will be ready to sell eggs and chicks. Our question is with the remaining birds we are sorting through. What flocks should we keep and progress with? Our goal is 12 total, and we have 9.
Here is what we have now-
Bielefelder
Black Copper Maran
Cream Legbar
Serama
Liege
Svart Hona
Silver Spangled Hamburg
Russian Orloff
Easter Egger
Here is what we could build-
Ayam Cemani
Lemon Cuckoo Niederrheiner
Swedish Flower
Blue Laced Red Wyadottes
Silver Laced Wyadottes
Gold Campines
Barnvelders
Light Brahmas me
So pretty please tell us your thoughts on the last three breeds to focus on and build.
We are also open to other suggestions if we are missing a great idea. Thank you for your thoughts and Input.

I am partial to the SFH. They have been the sweetest chicks and protective even of me except I had just one go through a bad teenager phase for a bit. She is over it now. They have struggled some in the heat we had this year in MS but it has been the worst I have seen it in 52 summers so I believe actually they did very well in reality for cold weather tolerant birds. They are very sought after FYI so I feel you would sell your chicks easily. They are gorgeous birds.

Also- I have Cream Legbars which have also been very sweet and heat tolerant and again I have one who is an absolute pig in the bunch who makes a mess at the feeder and is awful to hand feed. She is a beautiful bird though just goofy. Piggy piggy. Her mind is on food all the time. Tapeworm. Jk.