[CHICKENS-101] 3 year old boy - which breed to get

 

We are learning a lot from our 1 chicken, Hanibelle.

We like her nice ways. She follows us around the yard. Always greets us when we arrive back home and waits for us at the back door. My 3 year old picks her up and she puts up with it. She's a full grown laying mutt of sorts.

So we want more now.

I've discovered how nice it is to have a friendly, mellow chicken.

Since our egg needs are small - we only need 2-3/day - our meat concerns are probably outweigh egg production by a small margin. We need one meat chicken per week.

So we need another hen and a rooster to make more chicks. I would imagine that initially having 10 live chickens would be about max given these parameters.

So I'm asking for breed suggestions. Mellow, more meat than eggs, and, of course, beautiful. Maybe easy to butcher if that figures in with chicken breeds. We live in Northern FL, but seems that's not so much a concern with breeds.

I liked the Cuckoo Marans when looking at the McMurray catalog, but this is a big decision and I thought it best to toss it out to the group.

Thanks,
Allen

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