I agree with George and Cathrine. We have had chickens for several years. I wanted to experience different colored eggs so we have a Splash Maran pair, a couple of Auracauna hens, a couple of Buff and Lavendar Orpington hens, a couple of cochins, a trio of Polish, a few Silkies, 1 Leghorn hen, a trio of Seramas, and a few more. My son (6) loves the Silkies and has a couple from Catherine. They are small, calm and fun for him to take care of. The Polish are a little more fiesty, but lots of fun. The Seramas are the smallest and very friendly. Broody also. The bigger breeds are all friendly. I guess you can tell that we don't take breeding or showing seriously, but we do enjoy our chickens and they are well take care of. In exchange, we have dark brown/reddish eggs. green, blue eggs, light brown eggs, a pinkish egg (polish), and white eggs.
We are planning to add a couple of more breeds this spring. A couple of Black Jersey Giants for sure. No more roosters. We may incubate some eggs also. Tommy wants a couple of ducks so that may happen. We live in a rural neighborhood so have to be careful about noise, etc. So far, so good. Neighbors like the eggs.
Enjoy and have fun with your peeps and your son. BTW, where are you in Fla.? We are about 30 miles east of Atlanta and would love to have you visit.
Susan
From: allen_moretsky <a_moretsky@hotmail.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 8:11 PM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] 3 year old boy - which breed to get
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 8:11 PM
Subject: [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
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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