Chicken Breeds For Beginners! 6 Characteristics You MUST Know Before Picking!

He ain’t kidding about East Texas getting HOT during the summer. Occasionally we get 20 in a harsh winter but most of the time winter is 40s low.

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Loved my buff orpin

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.

How's been your experience with the chicken breeds you chose, now that a few years have passed?

Red

I started out with bardrocks?

Without watching… Barred Rock wins.

Rhode Island reds are aggressive and not friendly

Best chicken by far are they leghorns when it comes to egg laying. The are really ugly though

My buff orpingtons eat their own or each others' eggs -_-

Thanks for all the info! wen I went into chicken/egg farming i had absolutely NO knowledge so I basically just got whatever chicks i could get from urban cowboy (Rural Kings) i wound up with blk leghorns, plymouth rock, Rhode island reds and a few golden comets!! I dont know which is laying which eggs but jeez i get ALOT!! Thanks again greetings from Paducah Kentucky hope u check out my farm in the city!!

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How about silkies? I believe they are friendly with kids. What would be the downside?

I have three requirements. Chickens must be docile, quiet, and lay a good number of eggs. These are the breeds I'm considering:
Australorps, Speckled Sussex, Buff Brahma, Salmon Faverolles, and Wyandottes....the first two probably the most productive. 😊

I got my 3 backyard chicks from Cackle. Love them
Golden comet, Dominique, and black sex link. black link took 9 mos to start laying and isnt friendly, golden comet is my smallest but best layer , super sweet & is a lap chicken . Dominique is pretty & snobby (she's my daughters fave)
I raised all 3 since chicks, they got plenty of attn.

Im mostly dedicated to light bramas for most locations…unless I get free birds.

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!

I have hatchery breed of chickens called mystic onyx and then I have Wyandotte I believe it is a silver lace and 2 hens I can't remember what breed they are one of 2 is broody quite often there friendly though

I kind of favor Barnvelder chickens

Thanks for sharing!

Beware killer chickens

Not going to lie it's kind of hard to know what you're talkin about just watching you talk and not having any images to refer to.

Our chickens that we had raised from baby's were free range and chose to roost in tree in our yard but layed their eggs on the back porch in apple crates.....never were a problem ❤ and never left the yard.....so easy it was unbelievable...and now after waiting years to get more..they are proving to do the same thing.....have sexlinks and are docile and one hen is already broodie.

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

I have an amaracana. I’m in for a treat when grabbing eggs 😂

I have actually found the complete opposite with my two golden comet hens. They're very nice and they want to be near me. The orpington's I have on the other hand are kind of jerks. I hand raised and handled the Orpingtons, the golden comment hens I bought at 18 weeks old from a farm that Didn't handle them really at all.

Thank you for your help and ideas. I recently bought a 10 pk of day old chicks from Hoover Hatchery, which were mix of different breeds. In that 10 pk were 2 roosters and 8 white hens. I have no idea what they are as of yet. Their 2 and a half months old now. I bought 3 more hens a month later. Could you possibly tell me how hard it will be to put them together. I have the 3 fenced in next to the others, but they older ones don't like it. Is this going to be a problem. Any info would be great.Thanks again for your videos. God Bless

Will the bared and rhode gave a pecking order issue? Thank you

My starter chickens were RIR. Love my ladies. Kinda nosy and bossy. Curious and smart. No matter where they are in the yard, if I yell “look what i got” they come running/flying over. Weeding the garden is their favorite pastime. I do have one girl that goes broody every couple of days, but I usually get her outta the box with soldier fly larve or corn on the cob. My 6 girls lay every 24-25 hours! Eggs song in the afternoon is a blast. While they have 4 nesting boxes. They ALL want to lay in the one box. I know Rosy has gone broody when there is a line outside of girls raising Cain wanting to lay. If I don’t eat to them right away one or 2 will come find me and gorse an intervention. Somehow my chicken math kicked in, and I have a mixed flock adjacent to my girls. 6= 21🤷‍♀️can’t wait to see how these girls are different. (2 barred rocks 2 golden laced wyynandots,(?)a buff and a dark Brahma 2 salmon favrols(?)2 olive eggers
1 austrolorp, 1 barnvelder and a frizzel. Spelling aside. They are all Pullets The barred rocks and eggers are the first ones to stop being chicken when I come in. Eggsighting times coming up.

A beginner 😊
Just had 4 chicks couple of days ago
3 hens and 1 rooster , I assume 🙄
Breeds have different names in every country , I have got the red ones I think
now 3 of them are yellow an 1 is black

The golden one is beautiful , I hope I had it
I don't know it's breed name down here in Egypt ☹️

I've got about a dozen chickens that somehow wandered into my backyard and called it home, they are 'wild' so I have not made them a coop, long story short they seem to have made a ginormous old tree there home, they jump up into the tree like 12 ft high roughly.

Should I bother building them a coop, would they even use it, they seem to like the tree 😂

I wasn't crazy about the buff orps. One went broody, one died mysteriously in the run and the lavender was just not friendly. Plus those fluffy butts were always full of dirt, leaves, etc.

Have 28 chickens....buff orpingtons(21) and 7 whindots. Our coop is partially in the barn with an opening to an outside run. Until we can expand the space i was thinking about letting them out to roam but im scared they will run away.....will they run away? Im a first timer...hatched them out myself so yup....im attached😊. I spend time with them daily. My roosters tend to be more friendly. They love that i pick them up and pet them so im alittle scared to turn them loose so they can have more space till we are able to expand the run.

I got the golden comet in Illinois because it was supposed to be one of the friendliest birds, and they are way friendlier than the Rhode Island reds I’ve had in the past

I am not a fan of road island reds all that IV ever dealt with have not been people friendly at all I love bars rocks buffs and the buckeye chicken is great very friendly and really good eggs

damn this guy has got his chickens laying hardware tools? crazy

Nice video and love to see the practical information you shared, stay blessed 😊😊😊

Good information overall but there is one very important thing I would like to add that you didn't address. If you have kids are you just want to raise your chickens as pets you're far better getting a breed that has egg-laying capability somewhere in the middle not really high not really low. I learned this unfortunate lesson after getting some golden comets which are sex links. Look at any chart and you can see their leg laying capability is matched by few. The problem is though is they usually start dying at 2 1/2 to 3 years because all that high volume egg Lane creates problems with their little bodies. Mainly issues with their egg laying apparatus. My Easter Eggers so on average have lived about 9 to 12 years, but the sex links not more than 3 years. So my advice in a nutshell is if you're racing them for pets get a mid-range layer not one near the top not one near the bottom and then you'll have a good little feathered friend for a good while especially important with children, who obviously will form attachments to the chickens

I know this was three years ago, but those are good choices. Plymouth barred rock, and Rhode Island red. I found that the Plymouth rock will peck little bit at your skin. One thing about the Rhode Island red is people say it’s or aggressive. Not the ones that I have. That’s not been my experience. Mine are super friendly and nice and genuinely curious and seek the attention of people. Very intelligent. I do not deem the barred rock as intelligent. Good choices. and if I can continue about the Rhode Island red. I have a couple hundred birds. Been raising birds for 10 years. Rhode Island red is still my favorite. They are by far the very best bird and I have had zero issues with any of my roosters. Zero issues. They will compete with any hybrid and yes I do breed hybrids like the golden comet as well. But the Rhode Island red just keeps laying and lying and laying beautiful eggs.

Brother we got some misri golden breed and one aseel rooster

Good Job!!! thanx!

I absolutely detest leghorns. They are flighty, hard to contain, and not in the least bit friendly. I don't care for my red sex-link either. Love my rhode Island reds, orphingtons, wyandottes, marans, australrops, and jersey giants. Probably forgetting some. How Plymouth barred rocks. Barred and Plymouth rocks are two separate breed one is heritage other is not.

Also adore my salmon faverolles and blue sapphires

Also if you have hawk problems black australorps are often mistaken for crows and hawks often avoid a murder (group) of crows.

Happy checkin farming

White leghorns aren’t a friendly breed either I had 3 for 8 months I gave those 3 away with the 1st 2 rare breeds I sold 1 rooster & 1 hen to a life long friend & well less then a week later those 3 white leghorn hens killed that rooster🫤& the hen I sold with the rooster now hides from them like she’s traumatized for life 😢

Darlin' younguns

I have Rhoad island Reds strictly for Eggs..they have been known to live up to 15 years and lay Eggs up to 7 years..they are a 300 egg a year Bird they are very weather hearty and not prone to every disease that comes down the pike.. also the Roosters are fantastic protectors of the flock..mine are eggs use only I look at it this way you can go into any super Market look at the chicken meat and you'll never find a Rhode Island Red used for meat..Eggs yes meat No..

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