Best CHICKEN Breeds You Need For Your Flock

What are the best chicken breeds to get for your backyard flock? In this video I will discuss our best 3 chicken breeds we own, that we think every chicken owner should own for there backyard chickens!

3) Buff Orpington
2) Rhode Island Red
1) Americana

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[AcresOfAdventure]

WOULD LOVE TO HEAR EVERYONE ELSES FAVORITE CHICKEN BREEDS THAT YOU OWN! DO YOU AGREE WITH MY TOP 3 OR DO YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT TOP LIST?

⬇️COMMENT BELOW YOUR TOP 3 OR MORE CHICKEN BREEDS⬇️

[littlewifey]

Black Australorp. Good dual purpose and very good egg layer. Mine are very sweet and friendly.

[Kreinhardtfam]

I orpingtons! I can not brag about them enough. They are so sweet. They let my children snuggle them and carry them around. They are like little chicken dogs.

[superbuddyfranklin]

BlAck Australorp. Exceptinal layer, takes heat or cold, big bodied for eating if needed, quiet, strong health, beautiful looking bird.

[nogames]

I have had chickens for many years. And one thing I have noticed is, you can learn about breeds, general information about them. But it also totally depends on where you get them from. In my town we have four different sources of checks at various feed stores. They all get their chickens from different hatcheries. I could go to all four places and get Rhode Island reds and my experience could be all over the map. So don't just go by general information about a breed. You might get a Rhode Island red that's just nasty or you could get one like I have that is a sweetheart. You can get Easter Eggers that lay huge eggs, or you could get some like I have that like smaller ones. So before you completely disregard a breed, maybe try to get the same breed from different places and see what you think.

[زهرة_الأوركيد]

Would you please turn off music because it is so loud that makes me unable to hear you well. Your videos though are so important.

[lillyandsophia]

Thank you! We have already decided to get Buff Orpington hens, so this made us feel even better about our choice!

[rainerkaufmann]

I had some Rhode Island Red, they were very bossy to the other breeds in the flock. My favorite: Welsumer, if your focus is on egg production. - Greetings from Germany.

[country_boy_zoneb]

Easter Eggers are fantastic...so sweet..1 disappeared and I thought a hawk git her...nope...3 weeks later he brings up 7 chicks! Welsummers are wonderful to that Kay speckled eggs and mellow quiet birds!

[bayleecheyenne]

Ameraucanas are definitely my favorite hens! Sweet as can be and really personable. Great layers, too! 2 of mine lay a pale blue and the 3rd actually lays a pale green egg that is gorgeous 😍

[marksalyers]

We purchased our first chickens last November. After researching breeds, we decided on golden laced wyandottes. They are a dual-purpose heritage bred and are supposed to have a good disposition. We'll see how they work out over time.

[lisamiller]

I'm a fan of Jersey Giants. They are good layers and good for meat, which is important to me. I've not had a problem with aggressiveness. They aren't really pets for us because I don't want to eat my friends, but I can usually pick them up without much difficulty. They are also very hardy and good foragers.

[trinareeves]

My fav is Barred Rock… I also have and enjoy Black Copper Marans, Lavender Ameraucanas, White leghorns, and Rhode Island Reds

[jost]

Great video! True Ameraucanas are a rare breed and are often confused with easter eggers. Many of the big box stores will label easter eggers as ameraucanas which is pretty crummy. True ameraucana chicks cost $30 ea. We have both Ameraucanas and Easter Eggers in our flock and love them both. Your chicken is definitely an easter egger which is any primary cross of an ameraucana and another breed of chicken.

[marianneszymaniak]

Easter eggers are the most friendly ones we have. I like leghorn for their giant eggs, but they are kind of nuts. Rhode Island reds are too noisy but lay a ton of eggs. I am excited to get to know our prairie bluebell chicks. They are so friendly and remind me of easter eggers. Chickens are so fun.

[nogames]

I've never had a buff Orpington chicken. I don't like chickens to go broody. But sometimes the chickens don't read the breed manual. And sometimes chicken breeds that are not supposed to be Rudy go broody anyway, and others that are supposed to be broody have no interest in having to raise chicks. It's always a little bit of a gamble. But it is a lot of fun to have a mixed flock with all kinds of different breeds in it.

[bc-guy]

Good choices and for good reasons. New subscriber. I think the background music in this episode is quite a bit too loud and I generally think it's unnecessary anyway.

[johnhead]

Buckeye are friendly good layer super cold hardy. I have 2 that will come get on your lap if sitting on the porch. They are also great mousers when the mice come out of the fields.

[CabinGRL]

I have photos of one of my Americanas sitting right on top of another one protecting her buddy from the Buff which was dominant lol 😂 I miss them. This was a great chicken video

[thefreese]

I agree with most people who commented. Black Australorp... excellent birds . Less app to get snagged up by a hawk .. good layers ( best in the world)...

And i crossed then with a rhode island and all of the hens came up broody ... I will be breeding more when I want to replenish my flock..

I dont know how the cross would be with something else. So next yeat I'm going to borrow another Black Australorp Rooster and re mate it with my Reds again...

I highly recommend that ive had many days where I had 8 eggs from those 8 hens for weeks. And they laid all winter, while everyone else's flock weren't hardly laying at all.... I'm sure that's from the Austrolorp side ...

BTW ..All but one of those cross breeds were solid black... but even the one that wasn't only had a few brownish feathers on her breast...