What kind of chicken should I get?

[JasperMoon]

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

sweet ^^ danke

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

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

If you plan to free range them and they’ll be locked in the coop when it’s raining or snowing then your coop can only hold one more chicken going with the 4 sq ft per chicken rule.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

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

If she is plucking feathers then she is probably eating them because she needs more protein in her diet. What is the protein percentage in their feed? You can also give her some scratch.

 

[JasperMoon]

If you plan to free range them and they’ll be locked in the coop when it’s raining or snowing then your coop can only hold one more chicken going with the 4 sq ft per chicken rule.

yeah, and we are gonna get another coop soon,

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Your in Ohio? Look into the Buckeye... An Ohio Native.

 

[JasperMoon]

If she is plucking feathers then she is probably eating them because she needs more protein in her diet. What is the protein percentage in their feed? You can also give her some scratch.

Right now I dont know the precentage of protien, but we give them a mix of cracked corn bananna meleworms, they eat there hay bedding, and oysters, we are getting scratch this week when my father gets payed

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

yeah, and we are gonna get another coop soon,

So they have no access to an attached run? How big is your new coop going to be? I think you should get more chickens when you get the new coop, that way it’s a new place for all the chickens and that’ll throw off the pecking order.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Right now I dont know the precentage of protien, but we give them a mix of cracked corn bananna meleworms, they eat there hay bedding, and oysters, we are getting scratch this week when my father gets payed

Oysters as in crushed oyster shell?

 

[Ptera]

Speckled Sussex are all around great birds with the qualities you are looking for; docile, weather tolerant; beautiful unique plumage; egg layers.

 

[JasperMoon]

Your in Ohio? Look into the Buckeye... An Ohio Native.

thats an amazing idea, how do they handle are they skiddish?