What breed of chicken should I get?

[tony4850]

Golden Comets. They are very quiet and very friendly. Most hens lay from morning to mid afternoon

 

[JadedPhoenix]

There is no certain time of day. I have some that lay first thing in the morning, some mid-morning, some that lay around two in the afternoon, and some just before it is time to go to roost.

 

[tiddlywinks]

Are golden laced cochin bantams a good hen? Has anybody had any experience with them?

 

[BAKAR]

I'm not speaking from experience but, from what I've read, bantams are not the best egg layers...

 

[BAKAR]

Wyandottes & Amuricanas are easy and lay lots-of-eggs

 

[BAKAR]

Longhorns lay a lot too... but they can be mean and/or finicky ....

 

[draye]

Longhorns lay a lot too... but they can be mean and/or finicky ....

I don't think longhorns lays eggs. I know just a typo but still funny.

 

[Chicken kid12]

CHICKENS ARE LOUD! I will be in a room with a closed door and window and all the sudden they will start squawking over some egg they laid

 

[Chicken kid12]

From experience: choose sex links, I love sex links, and the ones we have gotten have been friendly, great layers, and not too loud! Unfortunately, some cat has been eating them all!

 

[Davaroo]

Sex links are great. They make it easy to have pullets only, and they possess hybrid vigor.

The downside is they won't breed true. Each successive generation comes out farther and farther from the originals. You either buy new ones each season or hope for the best.
For the average chickeneer with just a handful of birds, this isn't a huge problem. Buy more when needed and go to it.

But, this is why I normally recommended a true, or pure breed. If you want to improve the flock without resorting to purchasing new birds, you have more control over results. If you don't care about that and just want to keep getting the same results, then you can do that without the crap shoot of breeding hybrids.