What would be your top pick for breeding?

[HuffleClaw]

Maybe this is red flags that I shouldn’t get hatching eggs from this breeder then

Hopefully that "breeder" was just misinformed.

 

[Skyle]

Definitely brahmas. Roosters are gentle giants that get pretty well along with others. Hens are excellent layers (they only begin later, but I don't really care about this)
This is the breed that gave me the imput to get chickens, when I saw a Brahma rooster for the first time live there was love at the first sight

 

[sunnie7]

Hopefully that "breeder" was just misinformed.

I found him on the cream legbar club website...I assumed that meant he would be reputable.

Here’s what he told me “cream legbars are hard to raise and very expensive” when I asked what he meant by that he said “they stay not healthy in side due to not enough antibodies in their seater to fight off very simple diseases that other chickens have no problems with”
He also said they lay small eggs....

 

[HuffleClaw]

I found him on the cream legbar club website...I assumed that meant he would be reputable.

Here’s what he told me “cream legbars are hard to raise and very expensive” when I asked what he meant by that he said “they stay not healthy in side due to not enough antibodies in their seater to fight off very simple diseases that other chickens have no problems with”
He also said they lay small eggs....

He’s a liar.

 

[Pullet Press]

I found him on the cream legbar club website...I assumed that meant he would be reputable.

Here’s what he told me “cream legbars are hard to raise and very expensive” when I asked what he meant by that he said “they stay not healthy in side due to not enough antibodies in their seater to fight off very simple diseases that other chickens have no problems with”
He also said they lay small eggs....

Probably doesn't have good-quality stock, but that's just me.

 

[sunnie7]

He’s a liar.

Ahhhh soooo good to know!!! I got a nature right 360 for Christmas and after hatching lots of my own from my mixed flock last spring with crappy incubators (but very good hatch rates!) I told my husband you do realize what you just did right?!?! He knows my coop is full but we’ve discussed building a new goat barn and making the current one a second coop and a hatching/ brooding room...it’s going to happen! So now that I have 6 hatches under my wing between chickens and guineas. I believe I’m ready to start a breeding flock and hatch and sell! I thought my mind was made up on cream legbars but then this guy had me really debating.

 

[sunnie7]

Probably doesn't have good-quality stock, but that's just me.

I know if he’s telling me he has issues like that with his that not where I want my stock to come from!!!! Anyone have any suggestions of a good Crested Cream Legbar breeder that will ship me hatching eggs or is within 2 hours of southern Indiana?!

 

[HuffleClaw]

Ahhhh soooo good to know!!! I got a nature right 360 for Christmas and after hatching lots of my own from my mixed flock last spring with crappy incubators (but very good hatch rates!) I told my husband you do realize what you just did right?!?! He knows my coop is full but we’ve discussed building a new goat barn and making the current one a second coop and a hatching/ brooding room...it’s going to happen! So now that I have 6 hatches under my wing between chickens and guineas. I believe I’m ready to start a breeding flock and hatch and sell! I thought my mind was made up on cream legbars but then this guy had me really debating.

Sounds super exciting!

 

[black_cat]

My list goes.....
1st choice: Cochins, mainly blue. Cochins are one of my favorite breeds and it would be such fun bringing them to standard and making them fluffier and larger and fluffier. Blue is such a gorgeous color with the slight lacing of it, and the different shades, and I think it would be a great project for me to try to get right.
2nd choice: Exchequer leghorns. Basically the same reason as cochins: I love leghorns, and the exchequer coloring is GORGEOUS. I love the big floppy leghorn combs. This is a bit more likely if I were to live in a warmer place over a colder one, because leghorns are waaaay more heat tolerant than cochins.
3rd choice: Barred Plymouth rock. I really love heritage breeds, and the dual purposeness/good laying of the rock. I'd be able to get some good meat out of extra boys and lots of eggs out of girls, whether to hatch, sell for hatching, eat, or sell for eating. Good quality barring is STUNNING and it'd be amazing to breed to.

 

[sunnie7]

My list goes.....
1st choice: Cochins, mainly blue. Cochins are one of my favorite breeds and it would be such fun bringing them to standard and making them fluffier and larger and fluffier. Blue is such a gorgeous color with the slight lacing of it, and the different shades, and I think it would be a great project for me to try to get right.
2nd choice: Exchequer leghorns. Basically the same reason as cochins: I love leghorns, and the exchequer coloring is GORGEOUS. I love the big floppy leghorn combs. This is a bit more likely if I were to live in a warmer place over a colder one, because leghorns are waaaay more heat tolerant than cochins.
3rd choice: Barred Plymouth rock. I really love heritage breeds, and the dual purposeness/good laying of the rock. I'd be able to get some good meat out of extra boys and lots of eggs out of girls, whether to hatch, sell for hatching, eat, or sell for eating. Good quality barring is STUNNING and it'd be amazing to breed to.

I agree with the dual purpose something I should really consider more!!!
Blue Cochins are on my list too!