I've got some flighty birds araucanas, orloffs, welsummer, svart Hona and sebrights, I do love the blue eggs of the araucanas, and I find that sebrights although very pretty don't pay for their feed with only laying about 80 - 90 eggs a year!!
07 I cant bear birds that even though they really know me jump on the hen house roof at the slightest sound or movement - Favs both large and bantam are good layers, sensible, and have the advantage of being pretty
cochins and brahmas are lovely to look at, aren't great layers and you do need to take care of their heavily feathered feet. Sabelpoots are vey good layers of small tinted eggs - they are very pretty, but again to keep foot feathering good and not have broken feathers takes a lot of work - but they are very cute and very friendly they also don't "do" wet and windy so need a covered run with a windbreak during bad weather :roll:I would put pekins in the same catagory as sabelpoots - De watermael are cute and lay quite a lot of tiny eggs - German Langshans are very elegent, are goodish layers, clean legged and not flighty
the other breeds I keep are more specialist birds and aren't easy to keep unless you have a lot of time to spare - for, instance hardfeathers - although I find them the most "human oriantated" birds that I have - they love cuddles and the long tailed breeds yokahomas etc - the choice is enormous..............
