What is your dream chicken breed?

[edgarmongold]

Raised a lot of different breeds and varieties both large fowl and bantam over 5 decades but only raise New Hampshire bantams so I guess it would be them.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

You're right, they're a large-sized chicken with pea comb and multiple colors. If they just came in a clean-legged variety, they'd be perfect

I had some once--that's when I fell in love with pea combs. But those feathered feet, in a climate that had either mud or snow for most of the year, made me swear to stick with clean-legged birds in future!

Maybe consider a mix, I'm not sure what this fluffy butt hen is, I love her though, she is a chunk, clean leg, may be Delaware, Buff Orp & possible Brahma mix, she only has 4 little feathers, 2 on each foot. She doesn't have the pea comb but it is a small comb.

Maybe we can try to create a new breed.

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

I wonder why. I'm not doing anything magical. My original 3 Wyandotte hens are the 1 blue & 2 whites, going on 4 yrs old, still lay daily in spring, summer & fall. I let 1 white broody mama hatch 4 more Wyandottes, the 2 young Roos & 2 hens, they all hatched May 23rd, the young hens started laying in Sept. No one is laying daily these winter days, about 2 eggs weekly for now. I feed Producer's Pride layer feed & offer calcium to peck at all of the time, and hang veggies every other day, rotating cabbage head, squash, corn on the cob, & grain sprouts in winter (I Sprout my pigeon feed, a variety of grain seeds), plus a flock block winter as they're indoors alot like today, ugh, stormy, windy & cold, raining & sleeting it's butt off here right now. In summer they get a bigger variety as I can feed messier stuff outside from my garden like tomatoes, watermelon, cantaloupe, & I let them pick all the fresh blueberries & cherry tomatoes they can reach, etc. They love when I'm gardening, I stir up bugs, Grubbs, etc. During molt everyone gets vitamins 2x a week, l cut a multivitamin in quarters & probiotics, I prefer pills, I don't like vitamins in water as it gets nasty. Once a week, usually Sun, while I bleach the big waterers, I have small waterers I mix up 1 gal of water with a teasp of ACV, minced garlic & oregano so they drink only that til I put the fresh water in later that day. I also use the little waterers for Probios 1x week, too, usually Wednesdays, when I dump the big waters & give fresh. So far so good.

There is a pigeon remedy I've used to get older pigeon hens laying again, basically vitamins. Maybe it could help your hens.
https://www.versele-laga.com/en/de/oropharma/products/oropharma-fertioil
https://globalpigeonsupply.com/products/ferti-oil

Wow! I wish I could spoil mine that much!

 

[chickenhappy1233]

I want to know what your dream chicken breed is? Whether it actually exists or not doesn't matter! Mine is a Silkie Easter Egger that lays easter egger eggs. I have one from My Pet Chicken but she doesn't lay colored eggs. I also dream of Wheaten Ameraucanas, Salmon Faverolles, and Bantam Easter Eggers! Can't wait to hear your responses!

there are silkied ameracaunas. they arent easter eggers but they lay blue eggs and have silky feathers. they are pretty rare tho.

(not my photo)

 

[Cazook]

I want the mythical purple egg layer.

 

[alwaysthere4chickens]

Dual-purpose, pea comb, comes in many colors, lays brown eggs.

(Like Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, Orpingtons--but none of those have pea combs. And Buckeyes only come in one color.)

Maybe a Cornish Chicken?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I want a moderately early to mature bird that looks a lot like a Dark Brahma, but the white replaced by a reddish gold tint similar to pale orange clay. It should lay about 120 med-lg to lrg eggs each year, be predator aware, a good free ranger, have a small single comb and clean legs. Males should be in the 5-6# range at 16 weeks. Eggs should be cream to tan in color. and while I don't want a CornishX Frankenchicken, a little more breast than the typical Brahma would not be a disappointment.

I would accept the same, but pattered as a Wyandotte instead, with only a little disappointment.

I've started a "project" (search on "Lemonade") to try and create one, and have no expectation of anything resembling success in the coming decade. Still working my way thru a very useful, 30+ page, chicken genetics thread with some very good links.

 

[NatJ]

Maybe a Cornish Chicken?

Hatchery-quality Cornish are pretty close to what I like, yes.
And I've got daydreams of crossing them with other breeds to make more colors, too.
For example, the Dark Cornish are gorgeous--but replacing the red with silver would also look really pretty!

But the show-quality Cornish from breeders are way too wide for my taste, and are reported to be really bad layers.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Hatchery-quality Cornish are pretty close to what I like, yes.
And I've got daydreams of crossing them with other breeds to make more colors, too.
For example, the Dark Cornish are gorgeous--but replacing the red with silver would also look really pretty!

But the show-quality Cornish from breeders are way too wide for my taste, and are reported to be really bad layers.

Wait, you have Dark Cornish from a Hatchery with reds in them??? That's the second stage of my breeding project!

Mine all look like this:

I want to replace their white with something that's a little less obvious against my clay soils...

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Sorry, Brain Fart. Dark CORNISH, not Dark Brahma. I see "Cornish", and my brain immediately goes to Frankenchicken/CornishX. Sorry.