AmazingRachel
Songster
-Egg Laying Chicken:
If you're solely looking for quantity, get red sex links, black sex links, and Leghorns. If you want some diversity and a classic homestead feel with a little less eggs, Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks are good. If you're looking for sustainability, maintain four separate chicken coops. A small one with Barred Rocks, a small one with Rhode Island Reds, and then a small one with Rhode Island Red roosters and Barred Rock hens. The offspring will be Black sex links (Black Stars) and you can keep those in a larger coop/run as your main laying flock.
- Meat Chicken:
Cornish-Crosses have dominated the meat chicken niche for decades due to maturing in 6-8 weeks and having an incredibly efficient feed conversion ratio.
If you're going for more of a classic homestead feel, White Delawares and White Rocks will do nicely. Even Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks make good meat birds (option for a high hatch rate of males).
- Duck:
Pekins and Golden 300 hybrid layer ducks.
- Goose:
Not familar
- Turkey:
Not familar
- Pig:
Not familar
- Dairy Cow:
Holsteins if your looking for quantity, after that are Brown Swiss, which are smaller but produce almost as much as Holsteins. Brown Jersey's if you're looking for a bit less quantity than Holsteins but have more milk fat and protein the milk.
- Meat Cow:
Angus
I would suggest not moving to cows so quickly and to start off with goats.
If you're solely looking for quantity, get red sex links, black sex links, and Leghorns. If you want some diversity and a classic homestead feel with a little less eggs, Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks are good. If you're looking for sustainability, maintain four separate chicken coops. A small one with Barred Rocks, a small one with Rhode Island Reds, and then a small one with Rhode Island Red roosters and Barred Rock hens. The offspring will be Black sex links (Black Stars) and you can keep those in a larger coop/run as your main laying flock.
- Meat Chicken:
Cornish-Crosses have dominated the meat chicken niche for decades due to maturing in 6-8 weeks and having an incredibly efficient feed conversion ratio.
If you're going for more of a classic homestead feel, White Delawares and White Rocks will do nicely. Even Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks make good meat birds (option for a high hatch rate of males).
- Duck:
Pekins and Golden 300 hybrid layer ducks.
- Goose:
Not familar
- Turkey:
Not familar
- Pig:
Not familar
- Dairy Cow:
Holsteins if your looking for quantity, after that are Brown Swiss, which are smaller but produce almost as much as Holsteins. Brown Jersey's if you're looking for a bit less quantity than Holsteins but have more milk fat and protein the milk.
- Meat Cow:
Angus
I would suggest not moving to cows so quickly and to start off with goats.