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If you could onely keep and breed ten rare breeds for the rest of your life what would they be?
mine would be:
1) barbu d'uccle
2) barbu d'everberg
3) serama
4) brahma (gold, largefowl)
5) sebrights (silver)
6) german langshan (bantam)
7) modern game bantam
8) barbu de watermeal
9) dutch bantams (gold partridge and tbh most other colours lol)
10) bantam pheonix

1. Brahma
2. Modern game
3. Modern game bantam
4. d'uccle
5. Serama
6. Cochin
7. Malay
8. Pekin
9. Orpington
10. Yokohama

1. Japanese Bantams
2. Serama Bantams
3. D'watermeal
4. Modern Game
5. D'Grubb
6. Yokahama
7. Red Mottled Leghorn
8. Ko-Shamos
9. Old English Game Bantams
10. Stablepoot (spelt it wrong)

Red mottled Leghorn, are they on your wish list or do you have some? I'd love to see a pic.

Large Fowl

Australorp.One of the very best duel purpose breeds.
Exchequer Leghorns The best layer of the Leghorn breeds.
Indian Game If your looking for a cross for table birds.

Bantam.
Wyandotte Bantams Make the one of the best sitters of any breed.
Black Sumatra Game.For thier ability to lay and brood and beauty.

I breed red mottled leghorn...

I own all my fave breeds.

Wow, I can only keep a few of my favourites (I'm looking for some more land). He is absolutely gorgeous. I really wanted some Exchequer Leghorns for some nice white eggs and some colourful layers but I've changed my mind.

I dont like exchequer i found from experience they can be nasty whereas mottled leghorn seem to have an amazing temperment only problem is they like roosting in trees and are very flighty...

Didn't know that. I have to say after looking at your pics I think I will go for red mottled instead.

I'd recommend Red Mottled to anyone, they are just so lovely...

Great thread idea Drew, but really hard to decide!

For me I think chicken wise it would be:
1 - Pekin Bantam ...Such a lovely nature, and such a great range of colours, I am a huge fan of this bantam.
2 - Barb d Uccle....Since only ever owning one hen which we still have and now 7, she is loved to bits, so pretty and such a tame bird.
3 - Seramas....Well after hearing quite a lot about them, seeing so many photos of them in such a great selection of colours and Drew's constant recommendation these sound like a great breed.
4 - Orpingtons....Huge fluffy birds, very majestic and now extremely popular, they come in some lovely colours and have a great placid nature.
5 - Australorp....Maybe not a breed which has seen great popularity which is a shame but they are very attractive, friendly, have a great nature, lay lovely eggs too!
6 - Silkie....Never actually had any yet but I would like. Like most people I am attracted by their looks!
7 - Wyandotte...Another breed which comes in some really pretty colours (love the blue and buff laced) and are quite popular.
9 - Brahma...Never kept them but look like such placid majestic birds again. In some really pretty colours as well.
10 -Cream Legbars....Laying lovely blue eggs, very attractive and auto-sexing as well, what a bonus!

Oh and those Red Mottled Leghorns look very nice too!

Regards,
Jamie.

Red mottled Leghorn, are they on your wish list or do you have some? I'd love to see a pic.

I have some ;)

sorry, someone already posted a pic but they are gorgeous so I'm sure you will all forgive me!

1 - pekin bantam (am I allowed a selection of colours?)
2 - leghorns (a/a)
3 - cream legbar
4 - welbar
5 - rhodebar
6 - welsummer
7 - wheaten maran
8 - marsh daisy
9 - amrock
10 - cochins

I probably cheated as I have / have had all of these ;)
I'll be after some red mottled hatching eggs this year as I need some more hens for my boy, he only has 1 left due to the fox :(

Hahaha! It would have to be orpies, in ten different colours!! LOL!!
1) Black
2)White
3)Blue
4)Buff
5)spangled
6)Jubilee (of course!!)
7)Golden Jubilee (of course!!)
8)goldlaced
9)silverlaced
10)lavender
That's what i'd keep!
JubesX

Easy Peasey.
1) Russian Orloffs (All Colours)
2) Sablepoots (Porcelain & Lavender Mottled)
3) Barbu D'anvers (Silver Quail)
4) Barbu D'grubbe ( Blue & Lavender Quail).
5) Wyandottes (LF Silver Laced and Violet Laced Bantam)
6) White Faced Spanish
7) Ko Shamos (White)
8) Javan
9) Sumatra Game (Blue & Black)
10) Houdans

1-Yokohama(golden)
2-Pheonix(silver)
3-Ohagadori(white)
4-Araucana(black-splash)
5-chocolate leghorn
6-Cochin(white)
7-Faverolle(white)
8-Indian Game(any colour)
9-Jersey Giants(black)
10-a nice trio of jungle fowl(if only :)

geese, the ones that lay golden eggs, then all the rest would come right with time

Mine would be

1 - Salmon Faverolles(bigguns)
2 - pekins
3 - serama
4 - Japanese
5 - silverlaced Wyandottes (bigguns)
6 - appenzellars
.... and the rest would be different colours of pekin.....