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You are absolutely right, I as well as my kiddos enjoy having chickens and plan to have them for years. When I first got them, I didn't realize how attached we would be to them.

Honestly, noise from a rooster really isn't a concern for me, I actually like a roosters crow and I doubt my neighbors would mind much. The biggest reason I haven't added a rooster to my flock is because of my concerns of aggression, I have kids and they are very involved with the chicks daily...

I ended up not getting any rooster and am undecided if I will get one. I would have loved to have went with all barred rocks, but my kiddos had other breeds they were also wanting. I am hoping in a couple years to build a second coop and run with only barred rocks, but I'm wanting to get the...

I ended up not getting a rooster at all. I was originally wanting to eventually hatch some chicks but decided that if I wanted to get more chicks I'll just wait for one of mine to go broody and just buy a few chicks to put under her. So far my chicks (pullets) are doing just fine without a...

I'm wanting to avoid RIR especially the roosters, I just don't feel like they would be a good fit and in my experience of being around them they tend to get moody, just not a breed I'd want around my children especially just starting out and getting them used to chickens, maybe after a few years...

Sounds like you have a really good neighbor. I keep reading in many posts (not just on here but also on fb) that some people have neighbors who complain and call in on roosters for being to loud. We are hoping to have a pretty strong fence (I have a nephew who helps build fences on...

I will have to look into them, my son is wanting a blue chicken (I'm letting my each of my children pick out their own chicken or color) and originally I was thinking a sapphire gem but I think a blue orpington would probably be a better choice.

I'd definitely love to follow along. I was looking into the marans and found the blue copper marans, I think they are absolutely gorgeous.

That is good to know, especially with the humidity because here in Southern Oklahoma we have extremely humid summers. Honestly, I'm glad I can put them back on my list because everytime I've ever thought of having chickens, Orpingtons were always top of my list because of how sweet and calm they...

I will definitely keep that in mind, incase I do get a welsummer rooster. It sounds like if I do ever want to breed some sexlinks a welsummer would likely be the best rooster for that. I've tried looking it up and haven't found any instances where a barred rock roo would be able to. I do have...

I'm hoping that maybe if I give my neighbors eggs that will help them overlook any noise the rooster(s) may make 🤣 Someone mentioned earlier in my post that having a secondary pen/coop would be a good idea, so I've been working out the details on that, trying to anyway because I have no idea...

I will definitely look into them, I haven't seen alot about them or seen alot of them on the hatcheries websites I've been looking so I haven't really looked into them, but I will. Being able to handle both heat and cold is pretty important, it's not often we get really cold temps but itd be...

Honestly a noisy hen wouldn't be an issue, I only have 2 neighbors and I'm pretty confident they wouldn't be bothered by a noisy hen, now if the rooster decided to start crowing in the middle of the night, 1 of my neighbors may eventually get tired of it, but hopefully that won't happen and if...

Are Marans good? I admit I haven't really done alot of research on them. I will definitely look into them though because I love the color of their eggs 😂

They will be in a covered run/fence for the most part, depending on circumstances it may change to free range but not 100% sure on that yet. If it doesn't work out for them eventually being free range then I have plans to try to build a portable pen so that I will be able to move them to...

We definitely won't put up with a rooster that is aggressive towards us or the hens.

I will definitely keep that in mind about them being raised as chicks/together, and if they do all cause trouble I wouldn't hesitate a bit about being rooster free for awhile. I like to think I have reasonable expectations and have it all thought out. I have been wanting chickens for several...

They will definitely be in a good fence, we're planning to build a covered run/fence, digging hardware cloth along the fence, etc. My 2 biggest traits is personality and laying ability, maybe size too because I really don't want any small breeds if I can avoid it, I'm sure they are good and...

I'm planning to get as chicks, if I can I'd prefer to avoid getting any as adults. I'm still not 100% sure if I could eat something I raised, like it's a plan and honestly something I'd like to do in the future (raise my own meat birds) but if for some reason any roosters that dont make the...

I have a plan in place for any that wouldn't work out. Yes, 3 sounded a bit excessive in my head but wanted to throw it out there to see what others opinions were.