What chickens make up your flock?

[Brooks_]

5 Bielefelders

Having read that they are not very heat tolerant, I stopped pursuing them. How would you rate them?

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Having read that they are not very heat tolerant, I stopped pursuing them. How would you rate them?

They are only 6 weeks old currently, but so far I would say they are pretty heat tolerant.

 

[MROO]

Alot of people have have never seen one before. There very rare.View attachment 2762505
Sorry I don't have better pics. Their are single comb Nankins and rose comb Nankins. I have the rose comb. I realized today my 'nankin' chick was really a mutt! I got the eggs mixed up. @MROO
please share your Nankins here!

Your wish is my command ...

Thiis is Feisty - one of my first roosters. He was a single comb, so he didn't stay. He was Mr. Personality, coming in the house regularly. I miss him!


This is Evie at about a year, pretending to be broody. She has raised one clutch of one chick. She is no longer allowed to set, as she gets VERY upset when those nasty little yellow things start breaking her eggs. Hers npw go into the incubator at two weeks, and she seems happy with that. See that pretty silver in her tail? That should be black, like the underside. When I plan on hatching, I pair her with a specific rooster, one who throws really good color. My up-and-coming roo is one of hers - and he's gorgeous!



The best broody hen - and nicest Nanny Lady - I've ever had ... RIP my sweet Pepper.


My young roo, Pippin, at hatch. He was less than two inches long, fully dry!



This extremely handsome man is Yosemite Sam ... a rootin' tootin' redhead, just like his namesake. He's about three here and showing some wear and tear from coop life, but at 14 months, he won Best in Show at our County Fair - over more than 400 birds. I wasn't just proud of my little man, he was my buddy. He would ride on my shoulder and walk on a leash. He went along when I did Breed Conservation talks. What a wonderful ambassador for the breed. I miss my boy!


Simpleton - a pet quality RC rooster. He was a little big and dark gray instead of green-black Do I miss him? Not particularly. He had a vendetta against shoe laces, and could get pretty foot-aggressive when you wore sneakers. He wasn't dangerous, just a pest - a real little stinker!



Does that help? I really do love my Nankins. They are, without a doubt, the most personable birds I've ever had!

 

[BantyChooks]

Right now I have ~24 buff chantecler bantams, 4 white leghorns, 1 brown leghorn, 2 OEGBs, and one silver appleyard duck. The chanteclers are my main breeding project—I started with only a trio a few years ago, and slowly built up to the group I have now. They're still far from perfect, but I really enjoy them.

 

[MROO]

Having read that they are not very heat tolerant, I stopped pursuing them. How would you rate them?

If you're worried about heat tolerance, go with the single combs. I really love the single comb birds, but our winters are too cold and we lose those pretty points to frostbite. Poor boys!
My RCs handle Maryland's heat pretty well, but we don't sustain the really high temps as long as Florida does. On really hot days, mine get a fridged watermelon or frozen berries, which seem to keep them happy. If it's really blistering, I freeze gallon milk jugs and leave them in the run. The ladies all congregate around them. The fellas, not so much ... I guess it's not macho!

 

[Itz_Kitkat]

We currently have 21 chickens

7 silkies ( blue and gray )

9 EEs

2 Icelandic's

3 polish crosses

And 10 sexed tolbunt polish chicks arriving in a week