What's Your Single Breed Flock and Why

[BoundlessLove]

We raise a single breed of duck - Blue Swedish.
Have had different breeds in the past, but we enjoy keeping the Blue Swedish ducks. They are cold tolerant, lay large whitish colored eggs, go broody, GREAT foragers, and are beautiful animals.

We have several breeds of chickens, but I have been seriously considering downsizing to one breed in a couple of years.
It would be the Sussex.
Reasons: Good layers, Lovely speckled feather pattern, cold tolerant, will lay through winter, Very friendly, Great foragers, chatty (we like this trait), moderately broody, and all of the Roos we’ve raised and kept have been excellent protectors of their flocks.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

What is BLK (black?), BAR (barred?), RKS (not even a guess) please? I know RIR is of course Rhode Island Red and I deduce from your screen name that AUS is Australorp but that's as far as I got.

Black Australorp Barred Rock (Plymouth Rock)

 

[5Australorpasaures]

BTW, I got a giggle out of your screen name, @5Australorpasaures. I would have added another -es at the end to make it plural, I think ...

I treated it like Deer, 1 Deer, 10 Deer, or is Deereses?

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I treated it like Deer, 1 Deer, 10 Deer, or is Deereses?

Let me clear this up.............Australorpasaurs as in dinosaurs.
I stand corrected.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I thought, "australorp-asaurus" singular, plus -es to make it plural. = 5Australorpasauruses. But hey, it's your word, you make up your own rules!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

I thought, "australorp-asaurus" singular, plus -es to make it plural. = 5Australorpasauruses. But hey, it's your word, you make up your own rules!

How 'bout 5 Black Chickens. Or is it chickenses?

 

[BigBlueHen53]

How 'bout 5 Black Chickens. Or is it chickenses?

 

[AmericanDwarfChicken]

I have a mixed flock, but I may switch to having two flocks. My first flock would be all Plymouth rocks, and the second either cochin bantams, booted bantams, or salmon faverolle bantams.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I've ordered 5 Ermine Ameraucana pullets, 5 Blue Ameraucana pullets, and 5 Dominique pullets, to be hatched on April 15. My GC snd I will both drive up to Cackle Hatchery to pick them up on the 16th. So I still won't have a 100% single-breed flock, even after I re-home most of my OG girls, but close. With a black Ameraucana cockerel/rooster, I should be able to raise pure Ameraucanas, blue, black and Ermine, and also some sex-link olive eggers or at least EEs. I hope to sell Am and EE/OE chicks and eating and/or hatching eggs someday. Eventually I hope to have an entitely Am flock.

 

[Smokerbill]

Right now I have a mixed flock, 4 older non-laying barred rock hens, 5 New Hampshire pullets, one RIR pullet, one NH cockerel and one RIR cockerel. Plus 10 more NH chicks that I hatched about 3 weeks ago.

The only reason I've kept the old barred rocks around was to use for keeping the young cockerels in line while the pullets got big enough to keep the boys in check. They'll be out of the picture soon.

I'm working on breeding a line of NHs that are fast growing, grow large and are decent egg layers. The 10 I hatched are from a pullet that has all those traits, and I'm saving up a second batch of 10 eggs from the same pullet to incubate, although those chicks will probably be a mix of straight NHs along with RIR/NH crosses.

I'll be continuing a line of NH chickens, plus another line of RIR/NH hybrids to see how they turn out. If the RIR genes don't seem to be beneficial I'll stick with just raising NH chickens.