Single breed flocks??

[Mahonri]

Variety is the spice of life.

I have:

1 White Leghorn
1 Light Brown Leghorn
1 Cinnamon Queen
1 Buff Orp
1 Ca White X Porcelain D'uccle
1 EE
1 Black Sex Link
1 Partridge Rock
2 Barred Rocks
2 Rhode Island Reds
1 Production (or NH) Red
1 White Rock
2 Black Sex Juvies 20 weeks in May
1 EE Juvie will be 20 weeks in May
1 Blue Ameraucana pullet... 25 weeks old now (no eggs yet)
1 Blue Ameraucana Cockeral. (Son named him Spaz... no breeding or crowing yet)
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6 week old chicks
3 White Leghorn Cockerels (future home in freezer)
2 White Leghorn pullets
1 Speckled Sussex cockerel... We'll see if we get any pullets in the next hatch.
4 Wheaten/Blue Wheaten pullets
1 Golden Cuckoo Maran pullet
1 Cuckoo Maran cockeral

If I can't get a breeding pen set up, I'll probably sell the SS roo and the CM roo.

41 eggs will go in the bator on Friday morning and Monday afternoon.

 

[cmom]

My flock is currently one breed of Rhode Island Reds. I know many say they are not the most friendly birds, but I love my girls. I will be getting another breed pretty soon.

 

[pkeeler]

Most of the heritage breeds were dual purpose and kept on family farms or homesteads. If a chicken got out of line, it was eaten. So, selective pressure over thousands of years bred docile birds. It is only with newer selective pressure for purely egg laying ability (bird is in a cage, who cares if it is aggressive) that has developed flighty or aggressive or insane birds. Mostly in the smaller, high egg laying Mediterranean breeds (i.e. leghorn).

 

[vortec]

Buff orpingtons all the way! I love these chicks. Both the roosters and the hens are very out going and will go to sleep on your leg and love to get picked up. They are growing up so fast and I cannot wait until they start laying. If I had to pick one breed from all of mine( all of your list plus a few ) I would have BOs for sure. Hope this helps

vortec

 

[Pumpkinpup]

You are going to get a plethera of different answers but to be truthful, all of the breeds you listed would fit your bill very well. Choose the one you like best as they all will serve your needs

 

[Intheswamp]

Hmmm, well, after some more (well, lots more!) reading, I'm now considering black javas. Seems to be a hard breed to find, though. But, I'll keep looking.

Ed

 

[Mahonri]

I'm thinking of eventually just doing one of two varieties... either Blue/Black/Splash Ameraucanas or Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas... Maybe I can mix them and make a new variety of Easter Egger!

 

[WoodlandWoman]

The thing with Wyandottes is that they seem to have a little more variability in the temperaments that particular strains have, compared to some other breeds. If you're really attracted to them and want them, I would go ahead and get them. Then I'd post a thread, "Looking for Wyandottes with a nice temperament" and ask people for suggestions on where to get some. Some people on the forum have had really nice birds. A few have had picking incidents. I'm sure that many would be helpful in letting you know where they got their birds.

Of course, if you'd rather skip them and get something else, there are certainly a lot of wonderful choices available. Besides having just one breed, you also have the option of having more than one breed of hen and having the rooster be of the breed you want to raise. If you choose hens that lay different colored eggs, you'll even be able to tell which of the eggs are purebred and set only those.

 

[Intheswamp]

Well, I've scratched the Javas. The list now is:

Australorps
Buff Orps
Dominiques
Sussex

Basically in that order of choice...the Aussie and Buffs are kinda in a deadheat, though.

I've decided also, to go the incubation route. Still got some house, coup issues to take care of. I've got an incubator ordered. Still looking around for egg sources.

Ed

 

[choochoo-sd90]

I grew up in Glenwood Ala. I've seen something called a Chicken Tractor that is in the works. It's a long cage with a hen house on one end that's moble. every week or so its moved to a new grass spot and each has its on roo. Mine will be moved by lift boom on the tractor. I'am going for pure also..............jim....me