Choosing chicken breeds

When shopping for your chicken, you’ll want to look for something that’s lovely, healthy, and on the alert as well.

Not the chicken that’s huddled in the corner.

They need to be scratching things and appear quite alert, attentive, and engaged.

If you are a first time chicken owner, I am going to go over a list with you of all the different chickens that I would recommend when choosing chicken breeds.

If you’re looking to get chickens for the first time or even if not, you just want to add some really good breeds to your flock to mix it up.

I would recommend Black Stars, your black sex links your Reds production.

And I also love golden comments or cinnamon queens.

If you are getting chickens again for the first time or if you want to mix the flock, you should add Buff Orpingtons to your mix.

Buff Orpington

When it comes to choosing chicken breeds, I don’t know anyone who has chickens they don’t love or have liked or would recommend Buff Orpington chickens to.

They are a great dual purpose bird, they are very fluffy endless egg layers, although they seem to go broody.

You are simply a wonderful gentle breed, I really highly recommend you.

There are different types of Orpingtons, they are a great bird in my opinion for all of these things that I find desirable, especially foraging.

Since they love to go out and get fresh vegetables and mow the grass, I would definitely tell them to think about Orpington as well.

The Black Austral or Black Australorp

They are known to be some of the best egg laying chickens and the cheetah the leghorns.

What I have found so far is that they are very gentle, just great girls that stick together, and they are also gentle with all other breeds of chicken…

They love to forage for food so they are not afraid to do their own thing because you will definitely want to consider a bird if it is going to forage for you.

That means less on your food bill, which is potentially good for your wallet.

Black Australorp Mixes

When choosing chicken breeds these mixes are fantastic so you’ll definitely want to consider the Black Australorp again, that’s another breed you’ll find fantastic for dual purpose.

They are supposed to have really beautiful big brown eggs highly recommended by all farmers.

Slow Cooked Chicken

Of all the eggs, they take on a beautiful deep terracotta color and are speckled.

They are also very good foragers and have a very good personality.

It’s fair to know though…

They are quite docile, but sometimes they are a bit standoffish and want them to do their thing, but they are very friendly.

They do very well in the cold, they are a cold hardy breed.

The simmering pit is something every farm should have if it could.

Easter eggs

They are probably the number one bird right now in terms of people getting them, wanting them, and adding them to their home.

They are quite available, they are the new promising bird that everyone enjoys.

A lot of people really want to have the blazer too.

Easter Eggers can be a little fickle at times when they like their space, that’s okay.

They give a plethora of egg color…

You name the color, you get it all.

Easter Egger’s mix of barred rock..

They’re fantastic, so if you get the chance to add a couple of Easter eggs, you’ll find that variety in the color of your egg is a lot of fun.

And you are really going to enjoy having this breed as well.

leghorn chickens

Some people don’t like leg horns, I don’t know why…

However, they appreciate them for their heavy, heavy egg-laying.

OK, this is not a meat bird, this is their heavy heavy egg layer, they tend to be a bit fickle.

Once the hens are about a year old, they have calmed down a lot and drill well.

They get along very well with all the other chickens as well.

For the size of the bird and the amount of feed they have to have, they give an egg of a very competitive size.

And of course they are white, so it is very good to have white eggs.

Your different dual-purpose birds give you Brown.

And then your Easter Eggers and special breeds that give you different colored eggs.

I know you will be able to find Leghorn chicken in your area.

Again, the Black Leghorn and Australorp SAR are their top coats and just great to have in your herd.

Last but not least on our list here will definitely be the.

barred chickens of rock

It should be easy for you to find grated rocks.

And you will not be disappointed with these beautiful birds.

They are great egg layers, they get along very well with cold and heat, there is no problem at all…

And they get along very well with all the other hens.

So I am definitely going to recommend the Bard Rock Dual Purpose Bird to you, you are going to enjoy mixing them with the rest of your flock.

Therefore, choosing chicken breeds can be fun and a bit confusing.

But here are some suggestions.

Of course, there are many lovely breeds of chickens, it all depends on where you live and what birds you can get your hands on.