What is your current obsession?

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I thought this might be a nice companion piece for the "Fads" thread.

For me, I like fanciful and practical in one bird. Russian Orloffs fit this bill for me very nicely and I LOVE them! Spots, puffy faces, tiny combs, winter hardy and awesome personalities.

I am also obsessed with putting all of my favorite aesthetic features on one winter hardy, blue egg laying dual purpose, autosexing bird so I could sell the roos off as efficient meat birds and have the option to sell day-old pullets or keep them! I want spangles, I want pretty colors, I want beards and muffs and crests and boots! LOL

(I realize some of those are contradictory, but it's my fantasy chicken, so I can dream!)

What about you, what's your obsession right now? Are you unabashedly on board with one of the "fads"?

 

[Illia]

Certainly not aboard the latest "fads" but I do have a big desire for something colorful and unique. I guess I have what I really would love to see more of out in my pastures though. . . I'm REALLY excited for my Buff Ameraucanas and Tolbunt Polish, can't wait to get a bunch of babies once they all start laying in a little bit, otherwise. . . Of what I don't have? Non-accepted colors of Brahmas.

Ones matching the SOP well, especially with a really pronounced brow and beautiful coloration. . .

 

[herechickchick]

My obsession with Golden Laced Orpingtons has never subsided and one day I will have them.

 

[phasianidae]

silkie crosses

, Kraienkoppes, Chanteclers, Araucanas, Orloffs. Yeah I have a few to many, I dont think I will be able to get them all.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

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Oh, yes, I forgot to mention Silkie Crosses in my first post, but that's kind of a given. They offer so many of the things I like when they are crossed with regular feathered birds!

 

[Buckguy20]

Lavender Naked Necks!

 

[hallerlake]

I have ADHD, so I'm constantly attracted to something new, but I'd narrowed it down to Orloffs, Speckled Sussex, and Brabanters. I've ordered Cream Brabanter eggs from one source, and have found a second source (for genetic diversity) as well. Brabanters have crests, beards, muffs, and spangles (no boots or blue eggs). Since I live in the city and can only have so many birds, I have to be selective WHICH IS REALLY, REALLY HARD!!!! I still want to try the Orloffs and the Speckled Sussex, and have blue egg layers, too. I guess someday we'll have to move into an agriculture zoned area.

 

[Junkmanme]

My current "Obsession" is Sunshine and WARM temperatures !!!
(accompanied by an Ice-Cold beer.)

-Junkmanme-

 

[danielle82]

I don't know if I'd call it an obsession, but I'd love some lemon cuckoo and crele in Orpington or another big bodied bird with clean shanks....

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

What is your current obsession?

Hi! Mine would be *Giant black-skin frizzled Naked Necks that lay blue/green eggs in blue, splash, and black.
Hahaha, I'll get there one day.

Lisa
*or just really big.​