What kind of chicken should I get?

[JasperMoon]

So my Father said no to Bantoms so that means no silkies for me T.T but I can get a chicken still, our flock conist of a Mean big red Hen a Roo, A americuana mix(dont know how to spell it off the top of my head) 2 midsized hens and a little hen, Im looking for a sweet bird thats a good egg layer and great for shows, but one that can handle HOT summers and FREEZING winters, Got any breed Ideas?

Also If its not an egg layer my dad wont let me keep her

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

So my Father said no to Bantoms so that means no silkies for me T.T but I can get a chicken still, our flock conist of a Mean big red Hen a Roo, A americuana mix(dont know how to spell it off the top of my head) 2 midsized hens and a little hen, Im looking for a sweet bird thats a good egg layer and great for shows, but one that can handle HOT summers and FREEZING winters, Got any breed Ideas?

Also If its not an egg layer my dad wont let me keep her

Trying to integrate chickens into an existing flock is hard enough and integrating one hen is even harder.
So you’re looking for a chicken that is both heat and cold hardy, is good for showing (like a poultry show or a 4-H fair?) and it must be a good egg layer.
Look into single comb or rose comb Leghorns, but if you get a pullet or a hen and she wasn’t soicialized and handled much she will be flighty.

 

[JasperMoon]

Trying to integrate chickens into an existing flock is hard enough and integrating one hen is even harder.
So you’re looking for a chicken that is both heat and cold hardy, is good for showing (like a poultry show or a 4-H fair?) and it must be a good egg layer.
Look into single comb or rose comb Leghorns, but if you get a pullet or a hen and she wasn’t soicialized and handled much she will be flighty.

Ahh yes 4-H and is there specific Leghorn breeds? our coop is nothing but Leghorn mixed Minus our Americuno

 

[JasperMoon]

also our mean brown hen is a brown leghorn

Trying to integrate chickens into an existing flock is hard enough and integrating one hen is even harder.
So you’re looking for a chicken that is both heat and cold hardy, is good for showing (like a poultry show or a 4-H fair?) and it must be a good egg layer.
Look into single comb or rose comb Leghorns, but if you get a pullet or a hen and she wasn’t soicialized and handled much she will be flighty.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Ahh yes 4-H and is there specific Leghorn breeds? our coop is nothing but Leghorn mixed Minus our Americuno

So you want to add more Leghorns? There are many color varieties of Leghorns. Do you know the dimensions of your henhouse and run?

 

[MadisonOde]

Personally, I would go with a buff Orpington. They lay eggs almost every day and have a lot of feathers. I have one and her it gets to 90 degrees in the summer and -20 in the winter, and she’s fine. Although, I do have a heat lamp in the coop. They are the sweetest things and they’re like the puppies of the chicken world.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

also our mean brown hen is a brown leghorn

She is probably the dominant hen and not necessarily mean.

 

[JasperMoon]

So you want to add more Leghorns? There are many color varieties of Leghorns. Do you know the dimensions of your henhouse and run?

Id like to have a diffrent looking chicken not to confuse my parrents, and we have 28 square feet of room and are going to freerange them this spring

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Barred Rocks, Welsummers, Easter Eggers, Orpingtons, Australorps, are good layers and also heat and cold hardy.

 

[JasperMoon]

She is probably the dominant hen and not necessarily mean.

I say mean as I catch her plucing fethers out of our other hens, the other hens peck but she Plucks and Ive had to stop her fromm plucking