Your Perfect Flock

[Knittycat]

If you could have any chickens in any numbers you wanted, what would you get?

I'll go first.

I'd want a rainbow egg flock. I'd want two or three each Barred Rocks for brown (got 'em), Welsummers for dark brown (got those too!), EE for blue-green (got those!), Ameraucana for blue (I want silky lavender Ams), good strong olive drab Olive Eggers, Salmon Favorelles (is that how you spell it?) for pink, and Copper Marans for dark chocolate brown.
I'd want to free range them on my land out in the country (darnit, it's not my land anymore. sold it to the in-laws. that just means it will be mine...eventually

) but I don't think I'd actually be able to do that. 'Gators and hawks and boar and one very large panther call that particular area home.

So I'd have to have one HELL of a coop and run!
It would of course be next to the goat pen and down the way a bit from my victory garden

 

[Pinky]

I would have 20 polish, 100 EEs,20 white leghorns, 50 blue andalusians, 50 black australorps and 100 cream legbars.

 

[Knittycat]

Ooo! So many! Do you sell your eggs?

 

[backyardmenagerie]

I'd want a sustainable, dual-purpose flock. 10 Delawares, 10 Buckeyes, 10 Partridge Rocks... because I'm partial to the heritage breeds. And 4 Silkies, to hatch out eggs. And a few Millie Fleur D'uccles, because I think they're gorgeous - but I'll probably never have any, because I prefer function and utility to aesthetics.

 

[gryeyes]

My flock is already pretty perfect, as it is continually growing. I would want to be able to continue to add to them, as I hatch more eggs of the breeds I discover I want. The numbers don't mean a thing to me (unfortunately, it does mean something to the landlady) and I am getting various breeds added to it as I find buy the eggs and hatch some. I love my colorful flock and its colorful eggs. I do wish I could keep call ducks, but the landlady has nixed any more than the Cayuga pair I've got right now (I had to find a home for the four call ducks I hatched).

I have some of a whole bunch of breeds, but still want to add: Buckeye, Speckled Sussex, Dark Brahma, Barnvelder, Salmon Faverolles, to name a few.

I used to list the breeds within my flock in my signature, but ran out of space.

 

[wpalmisano]

30 pheasant, 40 Quail, 14 Mallards, 9 Easter Eggers, 12 purebred Black Americaunas. Oh wait, that is my flock. (Edited to add One dozen Lavender Americauna Eggs coming from breeder, for which I paid a rediculous amount of money. I can't stop. Its like jellybeans.........)

 

[dkvart1]

I'm new to chickens and haven't got any yet... I'm putting together a list that changes almost daily as I look at more and more posts and see all the beautiful colors of the chickens. Today a Silver Laced Polish went on the list after viewing one post! EE's are on the list as are Amercaunas for the grandkids and now I learn I can get pink eggs and green eggs! Yippeee! Silkies, Buff Orphington's, Copper Marans and a couple of others (don't have my list handy at the moment) have made the list... problem is I was only planning on 6 or 8 chickens... I see how easily this can get out of control!

 

[Mahonri]

I would have a huge barn, plumbed, electric with AC and Heat... the barn would have at least 20 pens, 10 on each side with large runs on the outside. On one end there would also be an incubation and brooder room, on the other end a feed and supply room.

There would be automatic feeding and watering system and a way to clean easily, fans for ventilation and lights that would come on and off in the pens at regular intervals.

Those pens would have:

Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas
Lavendar Americanas... with a split pen to work on egg color and body conformation
White Crested Blue Polish
Tolbunt Polish
Some rare frizzled polish...
Blue Wheaten Marans
French Black Copper Marans
Salmon and Blue Salmon Faverolles
Coronation Sussex
Speckled Sussex
Buff or Buff Laced Sussex
Some pretty Phoenix or Onogodori
A couple different pens of OEG
Splash blue laced Wyandottes
Lavendar Silkies
BBS Silkies
Buff Silkies
Heritage Delawares
Heritage New Hampshires
Heritage Barred Rocks
Heritage Rhode Island Reds

Wait that's 22 breeds... I'll make the barn LONGER

 

[squeakyballs]

My ideal flock
Friendly foraging chickens
Big colorful eggs

 

[Nava]

I'm almost there, but my perfect flock would consist of all the available colors a chicken can have but all in my Naked Neck Flock
*stares into the screen dreaming *