What are your five favorite breeds and why

[lilmillefleur]

I would love to add serama, sebright, OEGB, cochin bantams, booted bantam, d'Anvers, and bantam orpington or wyandottes. Or even a bantam faverolles. Oh and bantam ameraucnas and OE.
Basically every chicken on the planet

 

[MillersFarm]

I relate too much.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

My five:

1. Salmon Faverolles -- they are beautiful, docile and enchantingly goofy. Plus, they are continuing to lay after all the other ladies have begun their winter vacation.

2. Buff Orpington -- A wonderful big, fluffy pile of feathers. Mine protects her Fav "sisters" when others pick on them.

3. Rhode Island Red -- wonderful eggs and great temperament.

4. Blue-laced Red Wyandotte -- Calm, lovely and regal.

5. Cochin -- mine are bantams and are the clowns of the farm.

Your list is similar to mine. My faverolle don't lay much but they start back up first after a molt and fill in that gap when eggs are sparse. My two young ones run like goofs across the yard.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

1.Orpingtons- fuzzy butts, beautiful, great mothers and actually dual purpose birds
2. EE, OE, etc- colored eggs, beards, muffs really unique birds gotta love 'em
3. Black Copper Morans - those dark eggs & beautiful birds with great personalities
4. American Dominique , original good foragers, nice to look at good birds for the flock
5. Black Stars- change from the Heritage breeds, very pretty birds, great layers of large brown eggs, hardy, dependable and seem to be better "behaved" than some of the red sex links we've had over the years

I do like my dark eggs, and my olive eggs. They add that extra something to egg collecting.

 

[JedJackson]

I'm just gonna name 5 I really like, since I'm no good at picking favorites. Especially not when there are so many outstanding breeds out there.

1. Dorkings. These are the friendliest chickens I have ever raised, they lay pretty well, make excellent mothers, and just have a lot of character. A very old breed.

2. Hamburgs. I think these are just as beautiful as Leghorns. They lay well and are flighty, which means they resist predators well.

3. Polish. I especially love the buff laced variety, without beards. I used to raise them and would really like to try my hand at it again, if I could find quality stock.

4. Icelandics. Excellent free rangers, and they are always mixed colors, so you get variety with them, as with Easter egger. These are really pretty birds and really good layers, too.

5. Langshans. They are big, but in quality birds, very sleek. Pretty good layers of brown eggs, too. The roosters have really long tails and are very striking in appearance.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I'm just gonna name 5 I really like, since I'm no good at picking favorites. Especially not when there are so many outstanding breeds out there.

1. Dorkings. These are the friendliest chickens I have ever raised, they lay pretty well, make excellent mothers, and just have a lot of character. A very old breed.

2. Hamburgs. I think these are just as beautiful as Leghorns. They lay well and are flighty, which means they resist predators well.

3. Polish. I especially love the buff laced variety, without beards. I used to raise them and would really like to try my hand at it again, if I could find quality stock.

4. Icelandics. Excellent free rangers, and they are always mixed colors, so you get variety with them, as with Easter egger. These are really pretty birds and really good layers, too.

5. Langshans. They are big, but in quality birds, very sleek. Pretty good layers of brown eggs, too. The roosters have really long tails and are very striking in appearance.

I haven't tried many of these breeds yet. I do like the buff laced polish too. They are gorgeous.

 

[lilmillefleur]

I have a bantam polish and she's a goof. I love crested breeds too <3

 

[Chickassan]

1. Faverolles, they're slow and poofy and slightly special. They never fail to make me laugh.
2. Dominiques, smart sooo smart! And fiesty even though they're small. You can't make a dom do anything they don't want to do.
3. Brahmas, teddy bears in chicken's clothing. They'll climb in your lap and let you have the best chicken petting session of your life.
4. Speckled Sussex, every color there ever was in one chicken perfect for the indecisive. They will "talk" to you for hours.
5. Japanese Bantams, little buttholes every day, all day. Always look like they're plotting on you, usually they are.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

1. Faverolles, they're slow and poofy and slightly special. They never fail to make me laugh.
2. Dominiques, smart sooo smart! And fiesty even though they're small. You can't make a dom do anything they don't want to do.
3. Brahmas, teddy bears in chicken's clothing. They'll climb in your lap and let you have the best chicken petting session of your life.
4. Speckled Sussex, every color there ever was in one chicken perfect for the indecisive. They will "talk" to you for hours.
5. Japanese Bantams, little buttholes every day, all day. Always look like they're plotting on you, usually they are.

Love you descriptions.

 

[BantyChooks]

1. Chanteclers. Cold hardy, gorgeous, tasty, decent layers, a bit of local history, what more could you want?

2. Ameraucanas. Pretty eggs. I fell in love with their shape (mostly that gorgeous backline and profusion of feathers) and also liked their cold resistance. My line could be better, but I'm working on them.

3. Leghorns. Big combs on the more common types, and I find the rose combs kind of ugly, but WOW are they ever hardy, and they give enough eggs to fund a whole 'nother coop build! Mine are currently laying through their moult. They're not as good for this climate as the above two, and I like DP breeds best, but I respect them as a breed and almost went into them full time.


4. OEGBs. Cute, zippy, and good personalities. My pures have been a bit rubbish in the cold hardiness department, but the mixes and specifically bred strains are tough as nails.

5. I don't really have a 5th favourite, but I was kind of partial to Sultans for a bit. They need a lot of work in general to be bred up to full health. Many of the American LFs around are undersized as well. They are cute, though, if you don't mind high maintenance birds that are SO STUPID. Seriously, it was like owning little fluffy bricks. Adorable bricks.