What is Your DREAM Flock? (And What's Realistic?)

[Matieus27]

Because I live in town my dream flock would have a rooster that didn’t crow aside from that I have no clue every kind of chicken possible most likely

 

[Awtdaniel05]

I have my mostly all my dream flock 3 turkeys 10 ducks and 104 chickens. For bantams I have sebrights, OEGB, serama and frizzles. For large fowl I have Buff Orpington, barred rocks, polish, Delaware, gold laced silver laced and blue laced red Wyandotte’s, Americana’s, Easter Eggers, black astrolops, appenzellzer spitsahuben, cream crested legbar, salmon Faverolles, silver laced Cochins, blue langshan, buff brahmas, and a few cross breeds

 

[Peep_Show]

French Black Copper Marans that laid like RSL's or Leghorns.

 

[LizzzyJo]

I want a Lavender Orpington, a Golden Laced Wyandotte, and a Hamburg.

I’ve wanted a Lavender Orpington for a while but where I live they’re hard to find

Wyandotte’s and Hamburgs are hard to find too but I think they’re so pretty

I would say don't worry too much about the Lavenders. They are SO SWEEEEET and smart, but mine aren't the least bit purple! Lol. Not a purple glint at all ever. I love them dearly and one is my favorite girl and lap sitter, but they are just $20 grey birds! Haha.

 

[frackmomma]

I was just talking to my husband about this last night! Ideally, we would have two coops, one for large breeds and one for bantams. He loves the bantam Siebrights (sp?) look and I prefer the large breeds. We would have 50 in one coop and 50 in the other. I do love Cochins though and their fluff butts!

 

[Eggscaping]

My dream flock would consist of one of probably every breed (of course!) but sadly, I cannot have what I want where I live.

I am totally egg obsessed and trying to achieve the most colorful egg basket (and colorful chickens) with the least amount of birds possible in my suburban backyard. Seasonal availability and hatchery minimums are somewhat a hinderance, so I'm dependent on what my local feed store happens to carry.

My current laying birds include Easter Egger, Buff Orp and Blue Wyandotte. I just got 2 little chicks Sunday... Black Dominant Copper and an Olive Egger. I wanted to get one more, a white or cream egg layer... the store's getting a new shipment tomorrow. Can't decide between White Leghorn, Sicilian Buttercup, Speckled Sussex or.... Columbian Wyandotte-just because I want a white chicken and they're so beautiful even though they lay brown eggs.

Oh, decisions decisions!! What should I do??? I just want them all!!!!!!!



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Well if this is a fantasy flock, then I'd go for singing chickens! Lovely hens that would not only cluck and bok but sing like meadowlarks or canaries or song sparrows!
Who would object to a rooster that crowed like a meadowlark or a red-winged blackbird!

 

[feathermaid]

My dream flock is probably what I have right now. I have an Olive Egger, Cream Crested Legbar, and 2 Red Sex Links. I do want to add in a white egg layer or cream egg layer at some point! I'm not restricted on how many birds I can have because I'm on agricultural land which is quite nice. I don't want to get carried away though, I think my maximum is 6 birds.

Wow! I admire your restraint! That would not be happening with me on agricultural land... taking care of a whole bunch of animals would be my full time job.

French Black Copper Marans that laid like RSL's or Leghorns.

I just got a hybrid (Black Copper Marans x Barred Rock) called Dominant Copper from Jenk's Hatchery that is supposed to lay 290 per year. Apparently they ARE sexlinks (males have a white head spot), but look like marans and lay dark brown eggs, mine even has some feathered feet. I'm not much interested in production, just wanted the egg color... curious to see how it goes.

I would say don't worry too much about the Lavenders. They are SO SWEEEEET and smart, but mine aren't the least bit purple! Lol. Not a purple glint at all ever. I love them dearly and one is my favorite girl and lap sitter, but they are just $20 grey birds! Haha.

But they would be great breeding stock! They're just called lavender to differentiate between blue, though both are actually various shades of gray. The lavender gene will breed true, you'll get all gray chicks... whereas breeding a "blue" orp (or any blue breeds) will produce a combination of some gray chicks but also black and splash. Blues look the same, but are usually cheaper because they're sold in mixed colors (blue black splash), so the gray color isn't always guaranteed.

Gorgeous lady!

 

[Lady Who]

For my dream flock, I would have 5 bantam (mix color) Cochin hens and 5 bantam bramhas hens then one bantam Cochin roo

I might be able to get a dozen eggs a year XD

 

[chkva]

Wow! I admire your restraint! That would not be happening with me on agricultural land... taking care of a whole bunch of animals would be my full time job.

We rent our house, so maybe I should've said that. Our landlord is really nice and basically told us to get chickens for eggs because her mom used to have them on this land before. She also had peacocks too. We have about 3 acres of land that we can use, but I'm starting small.

 

[Fishkeeper]

I want Ayam Cemanis. A roo and a few hens. Then some hens that lay colored eggs, mixed in with those, so I can tell the Ayam eggs apart. Maybe a brahma hen or two. I'd love a couple of marans hens, too!

I'd also like a pair of Malays. In their own pen, of course.

And it'd be nice to have a pen with a few of the especially little breeds. Seramas, maybe. Not the super-tiny ones, I don't want them having heart attacks, but small.