I am open to any breed really. I'm like a kid with the Sears catalogue and I want one of everything. I loved the cochins, and I love colored eggs. I have had Ameracaunas and Cuckoo Marans in the past. It's fun having the prettiest eggs at the Farmer's Market each year. I have also had Polish, but that's the one breed I wasn't crazy about. But it may have just been the two I had. They were... strange. Behavior wise I mean. My plan before losing all my hens was add olive eggers and silkies this year. So I definately want those. Silkies mainly because I want the natural broodies and the one that did hatch is soooo sweet. Best chicken I ever had as far as personality. But I am open to anything that isn't mean. And I don't care if they are mixed. With chickens, if they are nice, it doesn't matter what they look like to me. And I've only had one that I could not make nice. She was a PR hen, and the coyote got her. She was a real snot. I know, respect for the departed and all (as my granny used to admonish me), but she could be a booger. And usually was.
I will confess hoping to beat someone who shall remain nameless at the county fair this year with this olive egger roo I have. And I don't know if I'll get any olive eggs by October, but if I do, they are going in, too, because the olives around here are "washed out". Sonew's are rich, deep colored. I'm gonna dominate when we start getting eggs!!
Wow. You didn't ask for all that, did you?
Edit to add: I bought the PR hen as a RIR but she never looked like a RIR. Someone told me she was PR. So that's what I went with. But according to the hatchery, she was RIR.
I never thought about putting the thermo on the wire... duh metal conducts the heat bleh... then figured out ooooh put it on the eggs. Never got an instruction sheet with my first bator. YOU guys are my instruction sheet
you guys were chatter buggers while I got kicked off the net last night-DH had to use the computer 
