What is your favorite chicken breed?

[rascal66]

Is your profile pic an EE? Beautiful!

She sure is She's one of my favorites, and I'm currently brooding some new EE chicks that will hopefully look similar to her!

 

[Chelsa'sChicks]

I have had Australorps, Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons, Easter Eggers, White Leghorns and Plymouth Barred Rock. My favorite 2 IF I had to pick (cause I love them all) would be the Buff Orpington and the Easter Egger for friendliness.. The others are great, but more to business about foraging and laying eggs

 

[RedMoxie]

We have 8 different breeds--lots of variation in who we like and why, but my favorite just from a personality perspective are--by far--our bielefelders. Man, they are essentially like dogs. I know some folks dont like them because they eat so much, but they are incredible layers and are the friendliest birds we've ever found.

 

[Beccazon]

We have 8 different breeds--lots of variation in who we like and why, but my favorite just from a personality perspective are--by far--our bielefelders. Man, they are essentially like dogs. I know some folks dont like them because they eat so much, but they are incredible layers and are the friendliest birds we've ever found.

Never heard of them. Guess I'll have to look them up! Ty!

 

[Sassysouth]

My first breed was Red Production and those hens were amazing. I got 6 eggs from each hen every week, they followed me around, very nice birds.

For the Bantams, I really enjoy the Silkies and love the Roo. I enjoyed the B Cochins, but they were so mean to other hens, I rehomed them. B Easter Egger and B Welsummers are very flighty. The Welsummers are sooo dumb. I rehomed my B Brahmas when they were young because I didn’t enjoy them.

I love Blue Favaucana from My Pet Chicken, she has been the best momma. I have had a French Copper Maran for about a month and she has a good disposition.

 

[A.M. Eggs]

Of my 4 years of chicken raising, I have to say that my all time favorites are:

Personality: Barred rocks and Buff orpingtons
Egg color: EE's (you never know what you're going to get)
Feather coloring: Speckled Sussex (I call her my little torture device, she is sweet but pecks extremely hard!)
Egg production: My barred rock EE mix (lays 5-6 times a week)

Thoughts on other breeds:
I have owned many different breeds. My least favorite, personality wise, is the brown leghorn. My red leghorns are super sweet and love to play jungle-gym on my arms, but the brown leghorns are flighty and would rather keep to themselves. I have silver leghorns scheduled to arrive on Wednesday from Murray McMurray. Hopefully they are like the red leghorns.
Wyandottes were never a problem in my coop when it came to bullying. They had always been younger than the leaders and would never dare to challenge Blossom, my lead BO. They weren't interested in people, but would eat anything out of your hand.
I love barnyard mixes! They are probably the best hens I have ever owned. I have three adult hens that are BRxBO, BRxEE, and an EE. My BO hen Lei Ming hatched out some more barnyard mixes three weeks ago today. So far it looks like Five girls and Five boys. Fingers Crossed!!!
Awaiting my new shipment of friends for Wednesday, May 1st!

 

[Kabootar]

Aseel is my favourite breed of chicken and no I don't like cockfight. I have many many different breeds of chicken, but no other breed possess the personality of the Aseels. They become great pets, roosters are not agressive towards their owners, both sexes fetch good price and most importantly Aseel hens are the best mothers in the chicken world. They stay high in the pecking order, no one messes with them, they are excellent teachers. They are poor layers, but at the same time they are not kept for eggs either.

 

[Kabootar]

Apart from them I also like breeds derived from Aseel like wyandottes and Cornish cross.

 

[SurferchickinSB]

My favorite is my Lavender Orpington. Her name is Zsa Zsa and she is so calm, quiet and tame.I just love her she is my special chicken. She is not the best layer, probably my worst, she only lays about four or five eggs a week, but that’s OK because I have seven other chickens and more eggs than I need. I didn’t really pick chickens for their laying abilities, more for their looks and personalities, but I do get tons of eggs.

Here’s a picture of my Lavender Orpington ZsaZsa.

 

[MontanaChickDoc]

My vote is for Naked Necks. I don't know why but I just love them. The hens are good layers, not super friendly but not stupid flighty either. Maybe it's the "so ugly it's cute" factor. I have a NN roo whose dad is a FBCM (pic). I just hatched some eggs from my ladies and got 5 NN babies, all different color/ feather patterns. I can't wait to see what color eggs they lay because most of the hens were blue or green egg layers (legbars, EEs, Ameraucana, whiting TB). I also really really like EEs. They are the last to stop laying in the fall and first to start in the late winter. They are typically smart and very beautiful and unique.