What breed would you suggest?

[Alwaysready]

I'm looking for a dual purpose homestead breed. I'm looking for a bird that is pretty good at fending for itself. The hens go broody and are good mothers and the roosters have moxie. At present I'm looking at Cornish or Dominiques. Any other breeds I should be considering?

 

[lazy gardener]

Dominique with a serving of EE on the side. Barred rock are also nice birds. Good thing about Doms and PBR are that they are auto sexing.

 

[chickencheeper]

Buff orpington

 

[Welshies]

Wyandottes are big meaty producers of large brown eggs. They are active foragers and great broodies. Quite pretty.
So are Orpingtons.

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm looking for a dual purpose homestead breed. I'm looking for a bird that is pretty good at fending for itself. The hens go broody and are good mothers and the roosters have moxie. At present I'm looking at Cornish or Dominiques. Any other breeds I should be considering?

Where are you located? If up north, Chanteclers are a great breed for that. Good foragers, meaty, good winter layers, and decently broody.

 

[junebuggena]

Barred Rocks and Easter Eggers.

 

[Welshies]

Agreed. Take climate into consideration. Large combed breeds will be heat hardy- breeds like leghorns, sussex, Rhode Island Red, and Australorps. Small combed breeds will be cold hardy- like Wyandottes, EEs, and Opringtons.

 

[Alwaysready]

Where are you located? If up north, Chanteclers are a great breed for that. Good foragers, meaty, good winter layers, and decently broody.

I'm in south east Arkansas. Sorry I didn't remember to list my location.

 

[Alwaysready]

Buff orpington

This is the first breed I considered but was told that they are very docile and timid.

 

[chickencheeper]

This is the first breed I considered but was told that they are very docile and timid.

They are friendly but they are great foragers and very hardy, also Rhode Island reds fit all your criteria