What Breed(s) Do You Wish You Had?

[New2Chicks97]

I have so many that have made my “I want” this breed some day list. I have room for a few more in our big girls/egg producers coop.

I would love another Favacauna. Ours was taken by a predator. She was the most talkative inquisitive girl.

I also like Favorelles. They look so cute and I love docile breeds.

Someone locally is starting to breed Lavendar Brahmas. I love our Brahmas because they are so docile and calm. Those Lavendar Brahmas are just stunning!

I also want some true Ameraucanas, Oliver Eggers & Created Cream Legbars. I love colored egg laying breeds I love it when I collect eggs and it looks like an Easter Basket range of colors.

My daughter just got 4 new littles today for her bantam/silkie coop. She picked out Frizzle Bantam cochins. She got one of each color that the store had because she couldn’t decide which was cutest (red, white, blue & black). So her coop is full for now until we build a bigger one with a covered run.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

Everything!

 

[Perris]

I am hoping to get a couple of silver duckwing welsumers this year; pretty looks and terracotta eggs

 

[ronkonkoma]

Honestly I dont. I have Silkies, Satins and bantam white polish and dont want for anything more.

 

[Amer]

I am hoping to get a couple of silver duckwing welsumers this year; pretty looks and terracotta eggs

Oooo. That's pretty. I don't think anyone else thought of that. You could get sexlinks too if you crossed a silver rooster with my red duckwing hens, but I suppose a silver rooster is no fun compared to the red duckwing type.
You know what's weird though? I never realized that silver duckwing Welsummers do not express the mahogany gene, thus silver shoulders on the cocks, while the red duckwing Welsummers do have it. That makes those varieties very differently bred, and difficult to cross.
If the silvers expressed mahogany, the cocks would have red shoulders, like this one.
https://www.bing.com/images/search?...&selectedindex=16&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=0,1,2,6
It's probably easier to breed though. Then you wouldn't have the recessive silver shoulders popping up.

 

[Kris5902]

On my list of planned purchases I have Bresse, White Cornish, And Plymouth Rocks. As well as more Black Copper Marans, Crested Cream Legbar’s, and Ameraucanas.

On my “wish list” though are Welsummers, gold and/or silver Laced Wyandottes, Silkies, and some sort of Frizzle because they are just So pretty!

 

[Cyprus]

I kind of want more Leghorns, but a different variety other than white.

 

[Melky]

I wish it was easier to find Faverolles and Cream Legbars. There are also so many breeds near impossible to find or simply not available in Australia, but those are the main two

I want a White Leghorn and Cream Legbar and it’s hard to find vaccinated birds.

 

[Amer]

I kind of want more Leghorns, but a different variety other than white.

You could get Anconas. They have a better personality. (Ours love foraging outside and are quite people tolerant. However, my adult hen went broody for so long that I finally caved and gave her some bantam Buckeye eggs.)
Here are the younger ones being younger. They are outside now.

We got those because we were so impressed by our abilities to keep the combs through the winters and needed a reward. And impressed by their abilities to be the most amazing birds you could ever want in a laying flock. Also we only had one since Spaz had died. Unfortunately, now more than half the eggs will be white. (Marbles is prolific enough to keep up with all the other laying hens combined, according to the egg carton.)

(Looking at this picture I wonder who the subject was. I think the Buckeyes were just photobombing, a typical trait of the breed.)

 

[Peepsi]

@Peepsi you are not wrong about the polish! But I will say that if you choose you're birds very selectively you can get a more rounded somewhat smaller out of the eyes afro rather than the crazy hippie fro hatchery chicks often inherit. And as long as you're birds have lots of cover they should be fine I live in WA and my city literally floods in winter but while my polish will shiver in the cold they're quite good about sheltering in dry spots(coop is unheated and non insulated) only had to blow dry a single bird all winter cause I forgot to cut her fro beforehand and it froze whith water -_- . I will note that if you do get polish TRAIN THEM WELL if free ranging! They are lightweight and can fly 10 feet up no problem! Fences are a option not an inhibitor for them, especially if they can see -_- they are probably the most cuddly breed I've ever owned next to my Delawares though! I generally cut their feathers before winter and at beginning of spring so by summer they grow out nice new clean tophats!

Thank you for the advice! The polish would be in a large closed tall run, so no worry about it being able to escape and it would still have plenty of room to fly up and still be safe. However, the rest of my flock (arriving this July) are all large-breed chickens (Orpington, Australorp, EE, Wyandotte, Copper Marans) and I just worry about having a small Polish in amongst them. We'll see.. Maybe one day, but it probably won't be soon.