What are the trending breeds in your area right now?

[Cyprus]

I don't think Silkies will ever be gone.

At least less demanded and less common would be good.

 

[Amer]

At least less demanded and less common would be good.

It was probably like this since they were imported.
There were fads back then too you know.

 

[Cyprus]

I've found demand for dark egg layers is on the rise in WI.
There's also a lot of folks just looking for grown laying pullets of any breed.

 

[Amer]

You know what I don't see demand for? Roosters.

 

[chkva]

Anything TSC sells...

 

[Faraday40]

There's also a lot of folks just looking for grown laying pullets of any breed.

Definitely! I have chicks for sale & also post pics of their parents. I specifically state that the adults are not for sale, and the pics are only to show what the chicks will look like as adults.

The next few days I get about 5 texts asking if I have any hens for sale.
or
Someone comes to buy chicks & wants to buy all the chicks AND the broody silkie hen. (We only have 2 silkies & they're pets.) As soon as they see a silkie, they want one.

 

[Acre4Me]

Here they seem to offer up brown and colored (blue or green) layers the most. The production white egg layers have their place, but seems a rise in colored egg layers in particular. While I’ll see lavender or blue birds for sale, they don’t seem to be picking up in popularity much.

We just got some blue chicks (blue copper Maran and blue Ameraucana), bc kid had to get some. I’m not a huge fan of the coloring (as seen in pics), but we will see how I like them in person.

 

[chickendreams24]

I don't think Silkies will ever be gone.

Same though. I kinda like Ashe, even though I don't like Silkies. They're so dumb people like them.

Lavender blue is the name I came up for a chicken that expresses both lavender and blue. I hatched blues last year, and realised one of my chickens had it. I knew it couldn't be the blacks or cuckoo or porcelain, and realised it was the so called "self-blue" hen. Now I just call her by the genetic name to save us some confusion.
Also you have no idea. I tried so much to break her. At least she's in a cage instead of eating everyone's eggs. Except the only cuckoo's.

I'd love to see pictures of her if you don't mind sharing. I may have a pullet/almost hen like this as she isn't quite the lavender color I am used to.

I kind of figured one color would dominate the other.

She could also possibly be mauve or carry recessive white.

 

[Amer]

I'd love to see pictures of her if you don't mind sharing. I may have a pullet/almost hen like this as she isn't quite the lavender color I am used to.

I kind of figured one color would dominate the other.

She could also possibly be mauve or carry recessive white.

Sorry that this camera is junk.
My hen is kind of almost white, but she has very dark legs and black feather shafts.

 

[chickendreams24]

Can you snap a picture of her with a self blue? I'm thinking she may be what my mystery light lavender is.