Did anyone ever kept chicken , if so what were your favorite breed any why?

[Kelly6]

I’m going to add chickens on our farm land

[FreyaRed]

My father has currently 6 green-legged Partridge hens in his garden. This breed is very good for keeping in garden and around a house, because those chicken find food very easily if they have enough space. Decimate insects and snails.
They hunt even sometimes smaller birds like little evil raptors. Disadvantage of this breed is, 30-40 chicken is the keeping limit. In bigger groups they fight against each other. With 140-160 eggs annually is this bread not especially recommended for commercial egg production. Meat quality is very good but this breed has just average body mass.

For your first chicken I would recommend Plymouth Rock chicken breed. It's most easy going chicken breed you can find and it's not very demanding because they are good food finder either. It's very popular breed around the world.
Sussex chicken breed is one I wouldn't recommend. Very aggressive bullies. However with less than 10 hens it won't be a problem.

[Kelly6]

@freyared
it's for farm 100-500 chickens

[FreyaRed]

Free range or confined?
If confined you will need other breeds, but I have no clue about them

[Kelly6]

@freyared totally free ranged on a big olive farm.
Will help farm as well

[FreyaRed]

I suppose you will need a help of specialist by 500 chicken. All traditional outdoor breeds will be problematic in this dimension.

[Kelly6]

@freyared
True,
As I manage olive farm and have help I will use some help in that too,
Needs regular cleaning and managing.
Not what I can do. Neither do I manage farm physically

[Kelly6]

@freyared
No way I can physically work on 375 acre olive farm lol.

[purplepoppy]

Sussex and Rhode Island are your best bet. Both lay a lot of eggs but are still good eating birds. Both are friendly and cope well with bad weather.

[Kelly6]

@purplepoppy
brown sussex?

[purplepoppy]

I prefer the white ones

[Kelly6]

@purplepoppy looks cute too

[Lliam]

Many years ago, when our next door neighbors moved, they gave us their five hens.
I built a nice coup inside our orchard area that is deer fenced. We let them into the fenced area during the day to forage, and they would come back to the coup at dusk. I would feed them and lock them in where they could roost in safety.

I don't know what kinds of chickens they were. One was red. One was white. Others were speckled. They were very pretty.
We got white, brown and blue eggs from them.
We loved having them.

But, at some point, they started disappearing one at a time. The red one was the last one left and it refused to come back to the coop. It roosted up inside the middle of one of our lemon trees. Then it disappeared.

I'm sure it was a bobcat that picked them off.

We never replaced them because we realized that we needed a large enclosure with a roof that would prevent critters like foxes, bobcats, skunks and raccoons from getting in.
We don't have enough flat space on our property to accommodate such an enclosure.

[dustybiker2]

I would like Rhode Island reds. I've heard they are good chickens from friends who keep them.

Also love the fancy fluffy ones I forget the name. But if I brought one home I'd prob end up getting one of every type eventually. Then showing them...

Have fun with them.

[Kelly6]

@dustybiker2
rhode island red is on my favorite list too

[ohsheeT]

Well i did once. Lol I was like 6 or 7 my friend and I went to the store to get some candy. And when we got there there was a guy selling baby chick's. For 25 cents each. All I had was 50 cents

I got two of them when I got home I showed my mom and step dad. He told me we had to build a coop for them and he told me do not get close to them. Because they're not pets.


Well one afternoon. He called me in to the back yard. He had a tree stump. And a hatch it. He explained to me it was time. For them to be food showed me what I had to do. I said no lol.. he finally grabbed one of them.
And?
And put it on the tree stump and cut its head off and then the next one. I didn't eat chicken for a few months after that.

[abc3643]

Make sure that you put it (them) in a protected area so that way various varmints cannot kill them...
Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, cats, etc. Chicken slaughters do happen and the owners learned the hard way that they needed to make their enclosures solid against such predators.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dujcieKIq3k

[Nikki1989]

We had four, but they all died over the course of a year. We had them for the eggs, but it turned out cheaper to just buy the eggs than it was to feed the chickens.

[Kelly6]

@Nikki1989
Totally agree , cheaper is to buy egg.
So which breed?
We will have large quantity for farming

[Nikki1989]

ISA Browns.

[Kelly6]

@Nikki1989 wow that’s best for eggs

[Kelly6]

@Nikki1989
Hard to find

[Nikki1989]

Nah, common around here.

[Kelly6]

@Nikki1989 we have heritage breed more

[Kelly6]

@Nikki1989 as Australian black, white leghorn, Rhode Island Red.

[Chazmatazz269]

My family kept chickens when i was young; too young to even realize that there were different breeds of chickens, let alone which ours were.
I luv’d them though. They were pets to me and i named them all. Even had a couple who would come when i called them. My parents had to hide for a long time the fact that they were butchering our chickens and we were eating them. 🥺😢😭

[Flower7]

That sounds fun. I didn’t know that you live on a farm.

[Kelly6]

@Flower7
purchased a olive farm last year

[spartan55]

Man, I would love to have chickens. I have a friend back in Illinois who has a farmette with her husband and they have 85 chickens. They yield about 4 dozen eggs per day.

[spartan55]

@Kelly6
You could make Italian egg sandwiches every day.

[an_nMary]

Want to buy some adorable chicks from my farm? 🐓🐓 I've got a whole flock! 😊

[Kelly6]

@an_nMary
which breeds?

[LazerBean]

Yes we are a chicken loving family! I love bantam coachens and araucanas the most, I think

[OlderAndWiser]

When i was a child, my grandmother had about 500 chickens. Very smelly!

[Makeushiver]

Your grandmother or the chickens?

[Ariesman81]

Rhode Island Reds

[mrmonogamous]

I had Barred Rock, Rhoda Island Ref and leghorn chickens. It was a long time ago. I don’t miss them at all. VERY MESSY AND STINKY even with daily cleaning.

[Sunrising]

I usually keep my chickens in the freezer, but I don't know what breed they are, though I like the ones coated in spicy breadcrumbs. 😁

[Sunrising]

My favourite breed of chickens lay brown eggs, very conveniently in the supermarket in little boxes.

[Staximus]

I'm no expert but this guy told me there are certain types that lay more, bigger, or better eggs. There are certain types that grow real fast for meat production, but might not be the best tasting "meat bird".

[Phoenix98]

My grandfather had chickens I helped take care of them when I was younger though I couldn't tell you what breeds we had.

[DJB72]

Not yet, but looking at brahma for next year. Massive birds, pretty good egg producers and ok in heat and cold

[Bricealan]

As a very young kid in Arizona, we had a White Leghorn

[TheWombRaider]

What the fuck no we eat chicken I don't even know how chickens are alive to be honest we eat eggs sweet baby chickens and we eat fucking big chickens so you explain that

[exitseven]

My father had chickens. He probably had 15 or 20/ . A always got eggs from him.

[captain_voidwalker]

Road island reds are pretty good starter breed, lay medium to large eggs and are mild tempered even the roosters.

[Kelley1]

I liked Rhode Island Red.

[Anonymous]

My grandpa had chickens, White Leghorn produces the most eggs.

[glennos89]

Can I count my exes in? 😂

[Rides_Big_Guys]

Silky chickens

[DrPepper12]

Does a bag of dicks count?

[Kingofkings1992]

Nah, but I love to eat them.

[krin_m]

i have not.