Your Top Five Favorite Breeds!

[bantam cochin connoisseur]

1. Bantam Cochins - great personality, winter hardy, set on their eggs
2. Game Chickens - hardy, lay well, set on their eggs, good mothers & practical able to free range
3. Bantam Gold Spangled Hamburgs - Love the color and lay well
4. Old English - Don't eat a lot, great personality and available in every possible color
5. Rhode Island Reds - Provide the tastiest eggs

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

That's a good Idea; we should explain why we like our top favourite breeds...

1 - Icelandic fowl - Unpredictable color variation; the hardiest breed on the planet; good temperment
2 - Bow Lake fowl - Unique roster of varieties; the second hardiest breed on the planet; incredible setting skills; great cocks
3 - Old Dutch fowl - good setting; pretty
4 - German Phoenix - see Old Dutch fowl
5 - Serama and Belgian Antwerp tie at this slot - I don't know why I like these, they don't do anything useful. But I like them

 

[MrsMoonCat]

(in no particular order)

Blue Andalusians - good layers, pretty birds
Delawares - very friendly/nosy, fun chickens
Cochins - great setters, pretty fluffbutts, friendly
Sumatras - elegant, intelligent
Rhode Island Reds - egg machines, super friendly

I have to include my Polish for the eye-candy and comedic value

This is just based on some of my birds, I won't even start on a "want to try" list.

 

[AnimalLady123]

(In no particular order)​

1.Light Sussex

2.Denizli

3.Silkie

4.Cochin

5.Aseel

 

[Trefoil]

1. cochin (both lf & bantam)- they're fluffy and good egg layers
2. brahama - I'm obviously a shallow person, I also like them because they are beautiful.
3. silkies- because they are pretty and go broody
4.polish because they are silly looking and acting
5.New Hampshire - my first chickens

 

[jayjay123]

cochins,barred rocks,polish,rhode island reds,andcinnimon queens

 

[Ourfamilyflock]

1. Rhode Island Reds -great layers, tasty eggs, fun personality
2. Buff Orpingtons - Beautiful birds with a gentle easy going personality
3. Partridge Rocks - love the coloring and their laid back personality
4. Black Austrolorps - Great layers, funny birds with easy going nature
5. Easter Egger - Great looking birds with colorful eggs.

 

[maralpz2006]

1- naked neck
2- frizzle
3- leghorn
4- anconas
5- rocks

 

[wood&feathers]

Cubalaya, English cuckoo Maran (much more hardy, better laying, active and efficient foraging than the other varieties of the breed), Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock, American Game

 

[Natural Eye]

1. Silkie (getting some babies has restored my faith in silkies, very friendly (most of them), cute, and good yardcandy.
2. Houdan (very friendly, hardy and entertaining, also very unique)
3. d'Uccle (very cute and very friendly)
4. Japanese Bantam (so unique)
5. Sussex (very nice, hardy)