Rural Gardening: Informal Survey: Favorite Breeds, 1 by dingydoo

dingydoo wrote:
Over the years I've had Ancona's, White & Brown Leghorns, White rocks, New Hampshires, RI Reds, Red-sex links, SL Wyandottes and the golden Wyandottes. The newest one's the babies are Dominiques, SL and Golden Wyandottes and Buff Orps.

My favorites by far are the Dominiques, their so tame. My favorite pullet in the brood (a dominique) is named Tootie. She'll jump right into my hand and try to climb up my arm. She was the sassiest and friendlist of them. But, all the Doms I have are by far the best tempered. A tie for second favs, the Buff orps, love their curious persona, they're pretty friendly too, and red-sex links are really nice personalitied. The most skitish ones I've had are the SL Wyandottes (though some are very friendly) and Ancona's. The meanest rooster I've had was a crippled New Hampshire and leghorns.

Pictured below is one of my baby Buffs named Lynnie and one of the Golden Wyandottes (mine are really sweet)

This message was edited Jul 29, 2006 7:16 PM