Thu 20 Mar 2008
I have children so what are the best chickens to keep?
Posted by trevor under Chicken Breeds
Ok, thanks for this question. Almost impossible to answer so I will give my answer using my experience. If you are keeping chickens please remember they are prey animals so always a bit flighty. What I have found (my own personal observation not proven in science) is the larger the breed the calmer the bird. Hence why I prefer large fowl only. Please note crested birds with slightly impaired vision seem to be the most flighty for obvious reasons. I am sure I will get lots of emails telling me how clam your banties are but please remember this is only answered on my experience in poultry keeping. Hope this helps.

March 23rd, 2008 at 19:23
I have a question: I have hatched six eggs of mixed breeds. Three seem to have genetic defects. One (which I think is a silkie) has feet which do not match each other, one has curly toes and one has an extra toe on each foot. Any comments on this?
April 5th, 2008 at 11:10
Hi curly toe can be a too high incubation temp or lack of vitamins in adult stock. Silkies do have one more toe than most breeds but there are a few breeds that have 5 toes such as our Dorkings. Sorry for delay in answering our blog has been attacked with spam but we have this controlled now. Kind regards