What breed of chicken should I get?

[lilmillefleur]

I agree with Leghorns. They are very pretty birds. You can get different colors too if you like variety, leghorns come in lots of colors but white is most common.

 

[gimmie birdies]

Blue andelusian, good big white egg layer, heat tolerant, and Blue.

 

[DobieLover]

I usually cut all secondaries and primaries on one wing. It unbalances them when they try to fly. My mom told me once that she had a parakeet that tried flying out of doors to get outside. She clipped both wings (primaries and secondaries) and the stinker could still fly, just had to work harder. I have a blue EE that would jump the fence ALL THE TIME. My dad (who lives next door) named her the Gray Wanderer. Well, once I caught her outside the fence, clipped one wing and she hasn't left the 80' x 80' winter paddock since.

The sad thing about my EE, Bunny's demise is that I started off on the conservative side with my top escapees. She had a single wing, primaries only taken off the first night. Didn't stop her. She had the secondaries taken off the second night. She got out again and was scheduled for a double wing full clip that night. I tried to catch her and the other two that managed to escape but they couldn't be caught or corralled back into the pen without the others escaping. So I flushed them back to our house 3 times and they ran back to the neighbors 3 times. I finally gave up as they spend all their free range time at the neighbors anyway and had for months. I just never liked it. Their dog happened to escape their fenced in back yard and he got her. It was horrible.
That night, the last of the girls had more severe trims and none of them have escaped since. The cockerel on the other hand, has left the confines of the pen the last three days in a row. I foolishly thought the meat head would stay with his girls.
He got his right wing clipped tonight. I left him his dancing wing.