Here's the BEST Chicken Breeds for Beginners ️

Nice choices 😁

I had a really sweet buff orpington, her name was Snickers. Unfortunately, one morning I found her very sick and she died that day. She was sweet, but would sometimes get very loud. Ha ha, silly girl.

Those are the very breeds that my youngest chose as the best ones for us. He added the Wyandotte too. I want them all but I don't think my neighbors would have the same appreciation for them as I do lol

Hey friend great to see you thanks for sharing 💜🌸

bard rocks are great for the NE

Yayyy I was hoping barred rock would make it on the list. I love barred rocks! Great video. Love how you end them, connecting us to other videos!!

Hi, i thought this was a great video! I have eight rode island reds and they are very friendly and hardy in the hot and cold! Thanks for all this great imfo!

I finally tried some Black Australorps last year and am so glad I did. I really like them. Great picks!

Yes...what breed lays the most eggs AND...*softly speaking* best...meat...chicken...sorry.


What is the life span of a chicken?

great info thanks for sharing !! we have some french copper marans coming this spring to help with our egg color variety :)

Can you do a video on all the types of chickens please

Lots of great information, Madam President.
Rob

Happy to see buff Orpingtons on your list. We absolutely love ours and are now thinking of hatching some to keep the flock going. 🤗🐔❤️

Great information. You are so cute and fun to listen to.💕 NonnaGrace

I have a Rhode Island Red and a Sussex. The red (Grohl) is the sweetest funniest bird. The Sussex (Bowie) is a P-I-G, HOG. She will bully for treats (apples) and jump to bite your hand for the apple. But I so love my girls. What a joy.
Love your vids.

My cuckoo Marans is my honker hahah which is funny because she looks kind of Barred Rock-ish haha she’s also my chicken little chicken (afraid of everything) so certainly one of my funniest chickens to keep

Rewatching your older videos while you’re on hiatus. Can’t wait for you to come back even more chicken-y! 🤣🐔🐓

Love your descriptions ,very educational always something to learn about chickens My favourite are the pekin bantams!They are the
sweetest things ever!

This fits my situation exactly. 🙂 Question: I'm pretty sure I'm limited to 3 hens in my town. When I buy my chicks, would it be best to buy all the same breed? And if I'm able to add chickens later, how well would the chickens get along being same breed vs different breed, a mixed flock? Thanks! Love your videos.

I honestly love crested cream leg bars I have a few and they jump up and sit on my shoulder when I walk around

i am having trouble finding a breed. i live in canada so we get verry cold winters and verry hot summers. I have a small family with 2 kids under 12 and i live in a area with alot of housesso i cant have a nosey hen. we are looking for pet chickens more than layers. do you have any ideas? xoxo

My barred Plymouth rock lays really pale eggs.

I have 8 pet chickens right now. 3 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Barred Rocks (used to be 3), and 3 Easter Eggers.

I really really really really want an easter Egger!!! I don’t even care if it ends up only laying brown eggs! I just got to say they are the most CUTEST LITTLE CHICKEN EVER!!

I first got Australorps and Buff Orpintons. My sister got light Brahmas. My son picked out gold sex lincs. Last year I got olive eggers. Plus we got 20 Americauns . Pretty egg shell colors. One of our Americaunas lays dark brown eggs. This year I am going to get some copper marans. Such fun. I love my chickens.

I personally don't like the production breeds except for barred rocks and Rhode Island. I study avian health especially poultry, most hatchery-bred lines of production breeds usually have more issues than others. This sucks because I have one older buff Orpington who needs to be euthanized in a few months. After all, she has ascites which is the biggest infection in production breeds. These breeds usually live only 2-4 years develop infections and cancer around 2 years of age. I had a golden laced hen who unfortunately developed multiple infections at only 3 years old from being a heavy production breed. I had another hen who got so I'll from ascites that she could no longer walk. She was a leghorn, super docile, and sweet I was sad about that. My other leghorn was just killed by a coon recently. But I had planned to euthanize her a week after she died because she was suffering the same. 😔

From my experience studying breeds and having a big variety of breeds myself! I recommend Brahma, Easter Egger, and Marans. My Brahma is the quietest and most docile bird of my flock! Even my rooster who is a hybrid between naturally aggressive (wyandotte breed) and Brahma is so easily docile. They have been my least vocal birds besides crowing.

Easter eggers are just awesome to have, I have 4 of them, one is a Blue Laved Red Wyandotte x Ameraucana, her name is Chloe, my others are Possibly Welsummer x Ameraucana crosses, named Martha and Georgia. My last Easter Egger is an Oddball, thus her "name" is a Brown Leghorn Ameraucana. I thought she was a Welsummer growing up but she developed white Earlobes. But her facial features and standard are too different to be Leghorn. When she began laying pink I knew exactly what was going on! Easter Eggers have so much genetic variation that they are such a good bird to have around. Mind lay all through winter and are super awesome.

The Marans are just fun because of their egg habits. Their egg colors are so awesome. Some like the Black Copper Marans lay a dark egg, while the Cuckoos or some other variations lay a lighter brown but a heavily speckled egg.

A breed I don't own but also recommend is Cochin. Also very docile by nature.

Breeds have traits, some are bred to be more docile, some wilder. But there are definitely those individuals. Like my first Leghorn was so sweet. But my second wasn't as sweet. The breed by nature is flighty so that they can forage well and take care of themself.
Or as Wyandotte are bred and more aggressive by nature. But I have that one individual Silver Laced who is much more docile. Not sweet, but much better than the Golden Girls I had! I miss having my golden Girls as they were pretty but I will never forget that they once almost killed a few of my hen's and bullied them all the time! As well as without them I never would have wanted roosters to set those two in their place. Golden laced though especially more "heritage" bred and colored ones are such great birds and make excellent foragers! If someone was looking for a more heritage breed that takes care of itself id recommend an uncommon variety of Wyandotte. They will come from the healthiest older bloodlines. Those birds top it all, they can take full care of themselves. So much so they wouldn't have any issues with predators except Arial ones.

My buff Sussex is so friendly and inquisitive.. she literally has no concept of personal space and will walk right into your legs onto your feet demanding treats.. today, she ran/flew so quickly from the other end of the garden when she saw me come out that she needed to put on her "emergency brakes" and still crash landed into the plastic garden chairs.. so hilarious..

I just bought three australorps today and they’re beautiful.

Your videos are the highlight of my day at the moment.

With the buff orpington which is at the top off my list, how hot is too hot? We get to about 38 to 40 degrees Celsius here with medium humidity except on about 7 days when its really hot with zero air movement.

Do you have a video that shows which temps suit which chooks in detail. I'm trying to work out which would be best in our temps that is also more likely to be ok with being kept in their fenced off area and snuggly.

Where I am putting our chooks is in an area where they are mostly in the shade so they don't cook in summer.

just received 6 buff orpington pullets and 1 jersey giant cockeral out here a few miles from xmas valley.

I’m a total beginner. Think I know what going broody means…googles to make sure.

That rooster at the beginning was so cute!

Hello how are you ? Can you tell me how i can tell if my chickens are male or females

I want to know what chickens are not recommended

We have Rhode Island Red as our starter breed. Recommended because we like eating eggs as vegetarians...lol.

I live in Canada, and they are very good in very cold, -30C

I am a starter and I might get these black Ops or lucks I'm sorry if I spelled their name Wrong

Im so glad to see that Buff Orphies on your list! That's the breed of chicks we bought and they came home with us 12 days ago on 7/20. I love them dearly.

I’m in extreme heat 😞. When I think of chickens I think Rhode Island Red.

Great choices. All on my list of first chickies!

Bearded chickens are the best chickens. Bonus points to Araucanas for having mutton chops.

2 years late, but want to add that salmon faverolle chickens are extremely vocal.

Love my barred rocks! Mine are pretty quiet.

I have the same exact chickens. They all are the best.

I feel like I'm the only one who has mean Black Alstrops. I have 2 and the do well in the run for most part but at night are so aggressive and mean. One pecked one of my Americana's on the head so hard repeatedly that she died. My other Americana was being held down by the BA and I had to pull her off week later when getting on roosting bars at night I heard her scream and fall to the floor. She was dead. One was 8mo. Old the other 1yr. On her birthday 😢. I've built my run and coop safe but never thought anything like that would happen. I have a 10 x 16 coop with lots of roosting bars. The BA want none of the others near them. They don't peck me or aggressive to people just at night. I have 2 Smokey Pearl's and 2 ISA Browns. Both breeds are so sweet and I just love those. I want to get some more chicks but can't go through the emotional part of them being hurt. I took another person's advice and put up a little curtain to divide the roosting bars and they all want the ones that had protected area. So a few more...they have more twice the Sq. ft. Needed in run and get fermented food plus keep pellets and fresh vegetables daily....I love all your videos and have learned so much from you. Thank you

I had my heart set on buff orpingtons but learned they're not the best in the heat. Texas gets HOT !

I would never bring a living creature here to suffer so I'm going with a breed that does well here instead. Every now and then I just have to look at some though. They're so cute !

What is the difference between between those island red vs golden comet

For me, my favorite breed of all time is the Silkie. Second is the Cornish Cross. The second is because they're good as pets and when raised carefully, they will live long happy lives. Mine lived til she was two years old.