Posted on 07/27/2009 3:14:41 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Buffs are the best, I concur having had several breeds. They lay well on less feed than some meatier breeds Ive had; and the roosters are not aggressive. They also tend to be broody, which I like. Watching a mother hen raise a clutch of chicks is a lot of fun.
Right now I have Gold Stars which I'm not too fond of: need a lot of high protein food, tend to molt, and the rooster is mean.
Black chickens are less “obvious” to predators. Chickens who are multi colored are much less so. White chickens might as well have a light beacon to predators. Black ones who roost in trees do not get picked off by owls like white ones.
Turkens are great chickens. Not too pretty, but huge chickens and they lay thru the winter. They get pretty broody too. The older heavy breeds are ones who will do their own “grocery shopping”.
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