Uh-oh! Sounds like you have caught "the disease". If you're not careful
before you know it you will be up to your eyeballs in chickens and you'll
have so many eggs your neighbors will begin locking their doors lest they
come home and find their fridges full of farm raised eggs. LOL - just
kidding.
I've had Americauna hens for years and they seem to be pretty well mannered,
have been good layers, and live a long time. Plus it's fun to get the green
eggs. I recently got my first Buckeye Red (recently being last spring)
and she is also docile and easy to deal with and she lays a little bit
larger egg that is brown. So either of those breeds might be a good choice.
I'm sure there are others that will work just as well but these are the ones
I'm familiar with.
However, I think it is really the personality of the rooster you need to be
most concerned about. I'm on my second Americauna rooster and am really
happy about how gentle and non-aggressive they seem to be. My DH once
brought home 25 unidentified chicks from a sale and about half of them
ended up really dreadfully mean roosters who attacked us on a regular basis
- they ended up being taken to the other side of the ranch where they lived
for several months before they presumably because dinner for some hungry
predator. So I am particularly pleased with the gentlemanly nature of the
Auricauna roosters. I bet there are a lot of people on this list who can
tell you about the nature of different breeds when it comes to the roosters.
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Judy Watson
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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.
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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