Chicken Breeds For Beginners! 6 Characteristics You MUST Know Before Picking!
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- Chicken Breeds For Beginners! You must know these 6 things before picking a chicken breed. It will help you immensely in choosing a breed that is appropriate for your family and homestead. Help support our family and channel! Shop Amazon through this link: www.amazon.com/shop/countryli....
Those 6 characteristics are average bird size, broody tendencies, egg production, temperament, roost height, and heat/cold tolerance. Additionally in this video we research 5 breeds closely and discuss the best 2 breeds for most families including ours.
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First time chicken owner. We chose Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks. I'm in north central Texas and took the advice of our local feed store as to breed choice. I love my girls. They started laying in March and I get 6 to 8 eggs a day from 9 birds. They are all friendly and easy to handle.
Very cool.
Can’t beat the reds or golden wondots
My Buff Orpington hens and rooster I raised many years ago were really docile and good tempered. Now many years later I have two Buff hens and a few other kinds of birds now. Man, my two Buff hens are aggressive as far as ripping treats right of my hand. They also scream bloody murder if you have to pick one up. Funny, maybe I was just lucky with my ladies and their husband in years past.
I had a bunch of different chicken breeds and the road island reds were the most aggressive for sure compared to all the others. I'd say the barred rock and Americanas were the most friendly.
One of neighbor's hens adopted us. She kept jumping a SIX-FOOT fence to get into our yard! She's been doing this for almost a year - and before COVID came, they'd come over and try to get her to go home, or catch her. She didn't want to be caught.
Here's what I think intrigued her. We have parrots. Two Congo African Greys and two Blue & Gold Macaws (the female B&G has laid eggs in our hands and on our feet and laying upside down in my husband's lap!!!) We'd see our neighbor's hen sitting on the back deck in front of the door looking at our birds. On nice days we had the door open so they'd just kind of stare at each other. Another big draw for the hen was the left-over bird seed I'd put at the back of the yard in bushes and under the Douglas Fir for all the little birds and as it seems, squirrels could feast on the left overs in a measure of safety.
This last summer, my husband and I were working in our garage and Ms. Henny comes over and wanders around in our garage. We found out later that she was hanging out in our shed because some of our tools had poop all over them and she was on the cross beam/rafter of the shed when was at about 7'! Later, when we had dug our potatoes and had them laying out to dry...she decided to sample some.
Then one night early last month, we saw her sitting up about 7' on a rubbermaid tote. We had put a nesting box out for her next to where we had the green house and she left us eggs. Then my husband found a make-shift nest with about 6 eggs in it. She started using the nesting box.
Long story short (too late) our neighbor said he'd NEVER had an ALPHA hen just pack her bags and leave! So he told us to keep her. She's a bard rock, I think. She's always making a purring/soft clucking noise, she's VERY mellow (even invited herself into the house, but we can't allow that with parrots) when she knows we're in the garage, she'll come in and check us out. We made a roost for her...didn't want anything to do with. She now sleeps in a cubby shelf right between the furnace and the door from our kitchen to the garage (we blocked off access to the shelves and the track for the garage door...she likes it THAT high!) And that's where she leaves her egg. I clean the cubby out every day, and put a piece of cardboard down to absorb moisture/urine and put some brown paper over that to collect the poop. THAT goes in the compost bin.
Yup. We're thinking of getting some more. (Our neighbor up front just moved HER chickens and one rooster to the back of her property, which is the front of our property, and Miss Henny likes to go up and chat with them, but never jumps the chain link fence. She comes when she's called and loves to roam around the yard and our garden, but enjoys our company. (We live on 3/4 of an acre)
Very cool. Thanks for sharing.
That is such a nice story to read. Thanks for sharing.
Such a wonderful story. I'm glad she adopted you. ☺️
We used to have a barred rock that would go around the front of our house, come up on the porch and peck at the front door. We decided to let her in to see what happened. She walked through the house softly singing, until she found a corner, in our family room, between the old grandfather clock and the wall. She shimmied herself down into that space and sat there a few minutes. We heard the egg drop on the wood floor. Afterwards she got up and walked over to the French door, pecked on it. We opened it and she hopped down the stairs to go through the garden to join the rest of the flock. She did this every 2-3 days, and stopped. We found her sitting on a nest under a shrub.
I love this story..Thank you.
My golden comets are very friendly, they have been the best and also produce alot of eggs, some double yoke and I even have seen triple yoke, lol. I just sit in the barn and they come right to me and let me pick them up and they also let my little girl pick them up, they are spoiled though and we spend alot of time w them!
Very cool. I may get some of those in the future.
We are 1st chicken owners & have 2 golden comets as part of our flock (plus 10 sapphire gems, 2 australorps, & 2 polish, 1 of which appears to be a rooster). The comets are the friendliest birds we have. The are the 1st to come up to sit in you & want to be petted & loved on.ours are named Haley & Blaze. 😁
My golden comet is super friendly, and the loudest when she sees me, sounds like she is yelling "Moooooooommmmmm" and she has a lovely trill my other chickens do not. However, she was over bred to lay eggs. I've gotten 2 eggs a day out of her for years... Most of the time softshell and useless because she cannot get enough calcium and nurtrition to lay 2 eggs a day. She is 8 years old this may. I love her and she is a wonderful pet like my others, but I may not get another due to the over bred for egg laying.
A lot* 😁👍
@@cluckieschickens Soft shelled eggs are usually the result of dietary deficiencies, or can be stress related. Are you giving your chickens calcium supplements? Have you looked up all the reasons why hens might lay soft shelled eggs and addressed the problems? I doubt that it's a breed issue.
Good choice Eric. We have always had Rhode Island Reds with great success. They are great with kids and our 2 grandsons just love them. They do quite well in cold weather with no heat lamp as long as you have no drafts in your coop. Our birds like to perch quite high at about 12 feet off the ground.
I remember them being great when I was a kid and I am excited to get them again. We will have a lot of videos once we do.
My Rhode Island is a killer and hate kids! Rooster of course!
I'm getting chickens soon, and Rhode Island Reds are the ones my dad has the fondest memories with when he was little. I'm so excited to start my journey as a chicken mom!
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My wife and I were just talking the other day about how our buff orpingtons have always been our favorite birds, we love them! Awesome video, very informative!
Awesome. You're welcome
Yup...our Buff Orpingtons are awesome! We just LOVE them.
I loved Black Australorps. Sweet. Large. Lay almost year round. They were docile, but did on occasion get broody. The roosters were even nice.
Yes, Ms. Cindy! I raised all of my Australorps and Bluff Orpingtons. I'm 5'1" and they loved sitting on my shoulder. Yeah, I know they poop on you. Get an old shirt!🤣
I’ve been thinking about adding black australorps to my flock. They are so pretty,docile, and I here really good egg layers.
My favorite chicken was a black astralorp. Beautiful, calm, friendly.
I lived in Huntington Beach, California with my family in a regular neighborhood tract home in the city, but, my heart was in the country. My daughter and I raised a Barred Rock, or Plymouth Rock and a Rhode Island Red from chicks. We would hold them a lot. They liked to sit on our shoulders and walk behind our necks to the other shoulder while nuzzling our necks and playing in our hair. They were so friendly that they would walk up to my hand and I would pick them up with their legs between my fingers and their chests in the palm of my hand. They would also do that for my daughter April, who was about 10 at the time. Every time they saw me, I'd put my hand out near the ground and they'd just walk up and stand there waiting for me to pick them up with one hand. They love to be hugged, petted, carried around or just sit on our laps. However, before they got old enough to lay eggs, there were coyotes near my husband's work, where we had to keep them for a while, and the coyotes got to them. Our hearts were broken, but, while we had them, they were wonderful. I'm moving soon and this time I'm going to have a place where they'll be safe when I get them again. Thank you so much for sharing all of your wonderful knowledge about chickens. It was fun finding out that we've picked a couple of good ones.
I appreciate it. Thank you for sharing. We just added some Easter Eggers this year. They seem to be very sweet and affectionate.
@@CountryLivingExperience new sub here, your information is both inspiring, informative and fun! I have 20 week old chickens, no eggs yet.
Roosters: 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Easter Egger, (has attached me 4 times so I took him away, felt bad after 2 days and brought him back home, which he seems better now), Hens: 1 each Buff Orpington, silver Laced Wyandotte, Black Australaurp, and 2 Easter Eggers (I think they are Americana)
The friendly ones are Black Australaurp, Buff Orpington, and a cross beaked Egger who follows me and catches hell from the roos for it.
Ran across your channel here on YT and happy that I did. We were looking to add some chickens to our flock and wanting something different than we already have. The info in this video helped. Happy to hear that you are a fellow East Texan. Look forward to seeing more of your videos.
Glad we could help. Welcome to the channel.
Thanks for the advice! Starting our first flock and went with four Buff Orps, four Silver Laced Wyandottes, and four Rhode Island Reds. No kids to worry about.
You're welcome. Those are all great birds!
So what do you do with 7
Dozen eggs per week? If you don’t have children that is just a bigger feed bill than you really need. More space you need for them and less room in the fridge.
We sell the extra eggs to co-workers. This pretty much covers the cost of their feed.
Thank you! I was actually considering those two, so that is awesome 👏
You're welcome. They have been wonderful.
As a young man we raised Rhode Island Reds and they were quite brodie. We did not have purchase chicks, and had plenty eggs and poultry to consume. I enjoyed your video presentation and lecture. Oh your child was simply adorable. Reminded me of our new granddaughter. I wish to view more content in future. God bless you and your family Sir
Thank you. God bless you as well.
There are hundreds of hybrids and heritage chickens(both standard and bantam breeds)Some of the less common breeds such as the Dominique were once very popular but with the introduction of so many new breeds they're not as popular now.Rare breeds can be acquired from professional breeders if your hatchery doesn't carry them.The fact that a chicken breed isnt popular has little to do with how good they lay.There are many reasons why some breeds are more popular than others and can have little to do with how good a breed it is.I ordered 10 pullets from Wisconsin from a breeder because the hatchery wanted me to buy 25 chickens and didnt offer pullets only.(I can't keep a rooster)
Ok, thanks.
@@CountryLivingExperience Thank you! I raise chickens for eggs and fertilizer too! Btw my baby Dominique chicks arrived yesterday and they look just like barred rocks when they're babies!
I had Barred Rocks and Rhode Island Reds. Fantastic layers! I also had Buff Orpingtons and White Leghorns. All together I had plenty of eggs.
You must have a mountain of eggs.
I live on just over an acre and just ordered 10 chickens, 5 black laced golden Wyandott and 5 black silver Wyandott. I'm excited just to have some animals on the property. I have my brooder and supplies ready and have the coop almost built. God Bless America
Awesome! Have fun and check out our other chicken vids.
I love Delawares, Buff Orptingtons, Speckled Sussex, Silver Laced Wyandotte, and Partridge Rocks (I think they are much prettier than Barred). I generally go for dual purpose breeds that I can breed and sell chicks as well as eggs. When it comes time to eat my layers I sell their feathers to fly fishermen I know who tie their own flies. Reds were too mean for my kids, I really only buy roosters of those off people to send to freezer camp. The only breed I buy as a pet are Ameraucanas because they are so fluffy and the kids love the colored eggs.
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Excellent video! Lots of great information that I understood easily. Liked and subscribed!
Awesome! Welcome to the channel.
Excellent! You answered all of my questions. Was interested in Buff Orpingtons but Barred P.R.s won the day. Thanks for your insight. In fact they've been my #1 choice from Day One.
Cool. Glad we could help.
Sometimes it completely depends on where you get your chickens as to what characteristics they have. You could get Rhode Island reds from three different hatcheries or three different feed stores and they could all be totally different from each other. So if you have a bad experience with one breed I wouldn't necessarily say give up on that breed. Get it from a totally different source and see what happens. You might be surprised.
Also if you get them from a reputable breeder with high standards.. I've bought birds that had traits of different breeds in them so they where not true to the breed I thought I bought..and behavior traits are also a heretitary.
A really good video. Some people people including me never subscribe if they are asked to. I just don't like the hard sell. If a presenter offers value I will subscribe.
Oh I get it....i hatched them all out myself and they all came from the same couple of hens my friend has. But yes I know what your saying....thank you!😊
exactly! After all these years, Rhode Island red is still my favorite. They are the very best, and that is for temperament, intelligence, friendliness, and egg laying.
I love the light Brahma. Beautiful birds, great layers and good for kids, as mine are friendly. I do handle mine and keep them tame. Do well in heat/cold. Mine lay nearly every day. Smart chickens and are not hyper or hard to handle.
Very cool!
That was informative and helpful too.
Awesome. Glad it was helpful.
This was so helpful! Also looking for layer chickens good for kids. Thanks!
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful!
Good morning from Mississippi. Just found your channel. Great content!
Good morning. Thank you!
Loved the info.. thank you
You're welcome
That was a great breakdown. Thank you.
You’re welcome
Thanks for a great video…I am a beginner and look forward to learning more
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for your videos. We are also in East Texas and are currently building a coop, and getting started.
You're welcome.
1st time viewer - subbed belled and liked - awesome content my friend!!!!
NO BS useful info to be found here
Awesome! Welcome.
Excellent Video
Thank you so much for all your help.
Thank you and you’re welcome
Love your presentation, very informative, thanks
Thank you
I got lucky with my one laying buff Orpington, she hasn’t been very broody, and is straight up the sweetest animal, jumps up on my shoulder like a parrot! Also because of the cold tolerance she’s been laying all winter with no artificial heat or lighting. Also my brown leghorn and white Brahma are both very friendly birds
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OMGOSH YES! I LOVE my buff Orpingtons! They are sweet and LOVE to be handled. I hatched them myself. When they start laying I'm going to probably hatch out more to sell as chicks. I'm in East Texas.
I have two buff orpingtons 1 Americana for my first go at this. I have a leghorn also but giving it to my grandpa that has chickens and a farm because the leghorn is trying to fly around at like two weeks old
our favorite chickens are production red and black austalorpe they are docile lay approx 300 eggs per year and are even pet friendly , we have owned isa brown, light brahmas, mystic marans, prairy bluebells, olive eggsers, barred rocks, buff orpingtons and golden lace Wyandots. we did not like barred rock because the were flighty and taught the other chickens to escape. We also were not fond of the light bramas, they pecked and chased the other breads and the roosters mated with all the breads over and over another problem with white breads is the high visibility to preditors especially at night.. sometimes the birds just did not want to go in the coop even for their own protection.
Thanks for sharing
I had a Brahma. Her and my buff Orrington were my favorites.
I absolutely love our speckled sussex chickens! They are not only beautiful but have a characteristic of a dog. They follow us and are very curious and are super friendly. Great egg layers to.
Awesome!
Since we will be getting our first chicks here on the new farm in 2 weeks, I appreciate the advice.
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Yeah, we had the birds you talked about for beginners as well as a turkey and a flock of genie. Was great for a while, then we moved more into the forested areas, and in a year or two, they were eaten or shredded by predators, starting with a golden fancy foot hen we received as a mystery chick from the hatchery.😮💨
Everything likes to eat chicken.
Thanks for the informative video..
Glad it was helpful!
We have 2 of each (in Indiana): Barred Rock, Sapphire Gems, Golden Comets, and Rhode Island Reds. We have four kids; 6, 8, 10, and 13. So far going well- should start laying any day.
I have 7 Golden Comets!
Great Helpful video. Thanks so much
You're welcome!
Big Thumbs Up for your information! I have a RIR hen, a Barred Rock hen ,4 Brahma hens & a Brahma rooster. I love my RiR, she has consistently given me 3-7 eggs every week since she began laying. My Barred Rock is second in number of eggs. Both are usually the first ones to come running wide open across the Big Yard when their dinner arrives. Blessings from NW Florida!
Awesome! Thank you
Oh wow!! Those are the two breeds that I kept growing up!!
Although they did brood sometimes,it was never a problem, kept my flock numbers up, with some amzing looking cross-bred birds, friendly,great egg layers!!
I made my own feed, mostly scraps with a bit of corn during winter months, totally free-range.
(Safe Coop for laying and roosting though!!)Thank you for sharing!! *New Subscriber now!! :0)X
That's awesome
This cool as I was considering Road Island Reds and Bard rock.
Awesome. They have been so delightful to have and the amount of eggs is almost overwhelming....lol.
I can confirm RIR’s as a great bird for a beginner with outstanding egg production. 👍😎
Great Information for a beginner ..
Glad it was helpful!
Very informative channel. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
We love our golden comets less than a year in our acreage now.thankS for sharing . New subscriber here from 🇨🇦 thanks
Awesome! I may get some of those in the future.
This is good information thanks 😊
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THANKS FOR SHARING YOUR INFO WITH US. I GIVE YOU A THUMBS UP FOR THE INFO.🇺🇲🌞✌️👍
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I also have golden comets. So happy with them! Got the day old chicks in March and the first egg in July, it was a double yolk. It took a few weeks but we were getting 10 eggs a day from 10 hens. They're very friendly and quiet which works really well with our neighbors. Since they all started laying, and it being winter, we've been getting an average of 8 eggs a day. Very, very happy with my layers. I'm now looking for some broody dual purpose chickens. I'm sure this will help! Thanks!!
Awesome! Thank you for sharing and letting us know about the egg production.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks very much from a fellow Texan! I've been researching for the past 3 months before I begin. The 2 breeds you mentioned are the ones I decided on for the same reasons as you. I can only afford 2 or 3 in my Plano suburban backyard. I may opt for the bantams. I'm hoping the grandkids will enjoy them. Thanks again! 😎👍🏻🐔🐔🐔
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Im in Denton and have had great luck with both. I have 6 in a 6x10 run with a 4x6ft walk in coop on a 50x120ft lot. I prefer the PBR's over the RIR's but not by much.
I have R reds and black hens that lay large eggs and free range in summer with our goats and LGDs
We love our Barred Rocks here in NH
Yes. I got the Road Island reds Amen 🙌🏽❤️16 of them we’re mailed and I got seven that were mailed of mixed so now I know what I’m keeping thank you Plus I am in Michigan saw this is great news because it gets cold here
You're welcome. I grew up in Michigan and we had Rhode Islands...they were the best in my opinion.
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Yes this helped so much I was considering Rhode island reds
Awesome. Glad it was helpful.
I'm not sure why I haven't found your channel before now, but I'm subscribed. I'm glad to see a fellow East Texan on TH-cam.
By the way, I used to have Rhode Island Reds back on our old farmstead. Best all-around chicken breed in my opinion.
Awesome. Hello neighbor.
Good Job!!! thanx!
You’re welcome
Thanks for the information!! U certainly helped me with my decision of which breeds I want, I am a beginner with this, I don't have kids, but I want the same characteristics as what you were pointing out, plus, I think the barred rocks are the most attractive chickens you can have, thanks again!...👍👍
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I'm with you on the weather. I want silkies but I'm not going to get them because it's just too hot in the summer
I have several prphingtons , all are nice, broody sometimes but always docile. The chocolates and lavender hens are beautiful.
I can pick most of them up with one hand. I think they like me.
Anyway the mixed flock includes Brahmins Cochins Barred Rocks And some Amercaunas. The later are not very docile unless I have worms and bugs. All the producing hens are consistent layers and I get all sorts and shades of large eggs.
My Cochin Rooster is quite friendly and very alert to danger and forage.
I haven’t lost a bird to a beast since signing him up, roosters earn their keep!
My very favorites are all of them.
Very cool!
My leghorns and golden comets are little monsters. They are constantly jumping out of our fence and exploring where they shouldn’t be- even after clipping their wings. Love love love my buff Orpingtons- sweetest birds ever.
Lol. I am surely finding out there are a lot of breeds that are little monsters. The are all nice with us but try to kill each other. My Easter Eggers seems the sweetest.
Your picks are also mine! Fantastic birds!
Awesome! They are.
Nice video and love to see the practical information you shared, stay blessed 😊😊😊
Thank you
We loved our Barred Rocks! We do live in New England where we have all four seasons. There temperament and egg laying are great for what we needed.
They are great for sure
Good picks, I use Plymouth Rock and ISA Browns as my main chickens. I would also suggest Czeck Sapphire chickens for layers that can survive the cliques that the rock chickens usually make. They make good mixed flocks and are strong enough to not get picked on. I have Lakenvelder hens, but, I wouldn't recommend them for a beginner or for cold weather.
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Hi great video. I've had many Buff Orps, they're nice, but all the Roosters were mean. I love Barred Rocks, they are 1 of my favs. My other fav is AMERACAUNAS, I love the colored eggs ,and they are very friendly . I really didn't have any other favorites until last year when I ordered chicks from breeds that I'd never had before. True Green Whitings are a reddish bird that lays lots of green eggs. They are friendly and not too flighty. Also True BLUE Whitings, which lay beautiful blue eggs. They are also friendly and a bit calmer. Some of my birds even know where names-- 😂 I can call certain ones by name and she will come running. I am very pleased with the breeds I got this year, oh, I almost forgot the Silver Spangled Hamburgs!!! I had lost 3 pullet chicks within 2 days of them arriving, so I don't have a lot to go by. But the 1 hen + Rooster are very nice. I have learned that I don't generally like "red" birds, because they are nervous or flighty or short tempered. Whatever, I don't like their personalities. So I'll stick with the Barred Rocks, AMERACAUNAS, Whitings, + Silver Spangled Hamburgs. 😂
Thank you. Cool. We just picked up some Easter Eggers and Leghorns to add to the flock this year.
I absolutely LOVE my Isa Browns, Golden Comets, and Rhode Island Reds. They are great and reliable layers. Super friendly with great personalities like dogs. They love to be pet and follow me around the yard. I have some Polish Pullets, Isbar's, Marins, and some Leghorns too. They are great layers, just not as ultra friendly as the others.
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Great video!
Thank you
Of all the breeds I have had so far the Rode Islands have been the friendliest so far.
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great video , I love raising chickens .
Thank you
big fan of barred rocks and specifically speckled sussex. the ss being my absolute favorite. ive had a few batches of them and theyre consistently the more intelligent and calm breeds. first to figure out new food situations and find there way in and out of new coops.
Awesome!
I never had issues with different breeds needing different roosting heights or nesting box sizes. They all used the one size we had. And all roosted at the same level.
Love it!!
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It's all in the raising ....never had a chicken coop....they were smart enough to find a safe tree to roost in and free to choose.....awsome the way they self maintain......amassing what freedom and choice can accomplish
nice summary. looking to add to my leghorns.
Thank you
I had a red (rooster), that roosted at 30 feet in a pine tree. He was completely feral after a opossum got into the coop. Thanks for the video.
You're welcome.
Smart rooster was trying to stay as far away as possible.
Sandy Acre Farms: I got Midnight Majesty Marans. I also do have EE's. I would like Blue and Olive eggers but I don't have yet. I also have and breed Leghorns, RIR, Light Brahmas, Silver Leghorns, Barred Rocks, Golden Sex Links, Buff Orpingtongs, 2 ducks. Planning to get Jersey Giants and Ayam Cemani and khaki Campbell Ducks next and I think that will be it because now we will be breeding all of these and start selling them next year.
Very cool!
They’re all different every time. I’ve had Ameraucanas that all but killed each other and had the same that lived in harmony. It’s all about the batch. Barred Rock was very successful for me. But I’ve had road island reds that were horrible, long horns that were great, it all depends on the batch of peeps you get and where they came from.
True but this is generalized info based on breeders that have been around for 100+ years.
Barred Rock hens are broody. This is a trait that I look for in a chicken breed. You need roosters at least and broody hens for a self reliant homestead.
I have never had a broody Barred Rock. Additionally, numerous chicken temperament charts from big hatcheries show that they are infrequently broody.
I agree that you need roosters and broody hens to be self reliant.
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My golden comets are my most friendly chickens; we also have Rhode Island reds and black astralorps.
Awesome
I wanna get Hersey giant's and the red x breed that Frey's hatchery has
I've had Buffs for 4 yrs and they have never gone broody. Love my Buffs.
Awesome
Love our Rhode Island reds. Great with our kids
Absolutely.
We have found the our new Easter Eggers are even better.
I love growing up on a farm, it will teach you responsibilities and when children are so young they learn how to care for animals and they will love the animals when I was very young my grandma gave me a hen called red and I use to take off her and she was my first love she knew me and when she Die I couldn't forget her for while so we had to burry her on the ground so I can rest to know where she was
So much to learn
Absolutely
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Very nice
I have all the breeds you mentioned except leghorns. My most broody hen is a RIR. She has raised two sets of chicks the past two summers. My Orpingtons have never been broody. One just never knows. 😉
The most friendliest, calmest chickens we have ever had are Columbian Wyandotte’s. Absolutely love them! Wishing you the best with your chickens!
Thanks Pam. We had Wyandottes when I was little. They were pretty great too.
I have a Columbian Wyandotte named Patty and she is the sweetest girl we have.
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I started w 2 easter Eggers and 2 barred rocks. They have been awesome! I'm getting 2 more easter eggers n 4 more barred rock soon.
Very cool!
I love White Australorp. They tame easy, and are great layers. They are very chummy. My Barred Rocks tamed easy as well, but I had a hard time taming the Rhode Island Reds.
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I have Golden Comets,and when we come to visit them they run to the door to come see us,they actually arent non social at all!We have 7,on the really hot days with give them iced corn!The holden comets are a mix of the rhode island reds and white island ones!Our birds are 15-16 weeks old at the moment.We put them away at 7 p.m. and our chickens love their home and us as their owners,we caught 2 raccoons that were after them,we are trying to get a fox we saw and the 3rd raccoon.Anyways,Golden Comets are actually very social,or atleast our's are!
Glad yours are so sweet.
yay a fellow Texan!
so I've had mixed results with Rhoad Island Reds, mine have always been friendly with me but my Dad's were aggressive with him. I've seen a lot of you tubers give them a bad rep also calling them the bully breed. Glad to find someone else who doesn't think they are
They are good with us but now they are pecking each other horribly. They almost killed one of themselves the other day. I had to take her out as she had 3 deep holes in her back. I think she will live but I am not sure yet. They sure are mean to each other.
The nicest chicken I have right now is a Rhode Island red. I think it just totally depends on the individual chicken and where you get them.
@@CountryLivingExperience I agree with No games it honestly might just depend on the bloodline in them and if they have been bred with a more aggressive bird or not so it might just be dependent on the chicken itself
@@Victor797264 That is a good explanation.
@@CountryLivingExperience Get a Rooster usually he will put the fighting to rest.
I was a fool when I got my chicks a few weeks ago. I was in a very busy store in Austin and didn’t write down what breeds I purchased. I was more focused on the egg colors as this is important to me. I am also particular when it comes to breeds but not this time around, apparently! LOL!
Love ur vids
Thank you
Had several different ones. Love chickens. Some of mine roosted in the trees.
Nice!
I have 11 breeds. My Buff orpingtons go broody all the time. Great layers. They are so very friendly and lovey dovey with me.
Love my Rhode Island Reds and Barred Rocks. Plus all my other birds!
All great birds for sure.
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this is also what I got, by intuition and also a research
Great!
We have buff bramas. We love them and they are so friendly to us people, will jump up in our lap, but they are so mean to my sweet Easter eggers always pecking and pulling their feathers out. 😩
HEEEY, HOWDY! We’re in NE TX. I see this is old, but I’m just getting around to seeing it. We have the Rhode Island Reds & have raised them since ‘09. In 20 we started adding other breeds & we landed on the RIRs, Barred Rocks, & Brahmas as the ones we prefer. The Reds are definitely a great breed.
Very cool neighbor.
I had a varied flock of 52 chickens. 5 were roosters. And the only trouble makers were 2 cuckoo maran roosters, a RI Red hen and a Barred Rock hen. The maran roosters were really super aggressive. So I ate them. Of the two problem hens, the barred rock would run the length of my 16 foot coop to attack my golden comet. My comet literally wouldn't go in the nest box until I was in the coop. And I stood guard to keep the barred rock away. My comet would come sit on my lap when I was outside. None of my chickens were handled much when little. I had a job that took most of my time. But my flock knew me and everyone got along except the RI Red and the Barred Rock. I gave those two to a farmer friend. Then there was peace in my coop again.
I am adding Leghorns and Easter Eggers this year as young chickens. We will see what happens. Chicken social norms are odd.
@@CountryLivingExperience The Easter Bunny delivered. 13 baby chicks to my son one year. They grew into 13 Leghorn roosters. LOL. They were never aggressive around us. Very flighty, but not aggressive. So I think your kids should be ok around them. The Easter Eggers should be fun for your kids with the colored eggs. Keep us posted on how they all do for you.
Thanks for the heads up. Yea, I have heard that the leghorns are flighty. They will go into my enclosed coop and run for sure.
Great choices! Sorry your experiences with Golden Comet’s was less than stellar, we had some that were absolute attention seekers! Have you tried Brown Leghorns? We have one that’s a great mouser (better than our cats!). What’s been your experience with Cuckoo Marans? Ours is kinda unfriendly even though she’s been raised by hand, but I hear other peoples are sweethearts.
Thanks. I never had the comets. Have not tried the brown leghorns or Marans either. I have experience with ri reds, Wyandotte, and barred rocks as well as various meat breeds.
@@CountryLivingExperience the cool thing about Cuckoo Marans is they lay a dark speckled egg, also if you get a chance I highly suggest Brown Leghorns!
My Golden Comet (only had one) was very sweet, and liked to sit on my lap. The Cuckoo Marans were very aggressive. I ate them.
I got two Golden Comets and two leghorns. They are laying 4 eggs a day. All of them are really nice. I do a special mix of my own food mix and they are laying every day now. The Leghorns have learned to eat out of my hands but they are still skittish. They won't let me pick them up and oet them like the Comets. Love your vids.
Thank you John.
We ended up getting some Leghorns this year. Great with eggs but certainly skittish and flighty.
Buff Orphingtons are my favorite for egg production and tame temperament. I have one that let's me pick her up and pet her
I always hear great things about them.