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This is one of our 3 pure bred
Cream Legbar Cockerels
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Indian Game
This breed is a dual purpose breed, it lays a good
sized cream egg and also finishes a heavy weight table bird.
Our breeding stock are not huge the pullets weigh
approx 6lbs in weight when mature.
We have 4 cockerels this year that are simply stunning
running with 20 hens
Eggs available from the 20th March
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Welsummer
This beautiful Dutch breed lays a large dark brown egg and
they are very prolific, they will lay a good part of the year.
This breed will sometimes go broody but is
predominately an egg laying strain.
This year we also have a Silver Duckwing
cockerel running with our breeding set as well as 2 Welsummer
cockerels with 15 hens.
therefore you may get an odd Silver Duckwing
chick from these eggs.
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Silver Duckwing Welsummer
Another Dutch breed lays a large
dark brown egg the same as the traditional Welsummer and their feather colouring is beautiful.
They are very prolific
and they will lay a good
part of the year.
This breed will sometimes go broody but is
predominately an egg laying strain.
From this Silver
Duckwing breeding pen some chicks may hatch partridge colour see above.
They will be pure Welsummer and predominately female
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Green Leg Partridge
Hen
This Polish breed looks very
similar to the Partridge Welsummer, only it is slightly smaller with of course green legs.
They lay a cream colour egg,
they are very hardy and prolific layers.
Eggs available from the 20th March
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Araucana
The colour we keep as shown is the Lavender.
These birds lay the blue/ green egg. Araucana eggs can vary from a dark olive green to blue. We keep three
blood lines, the cockerel line lays a olive green egg and the others lay a much
lighter blue/green egg.
This year we have a
mixture of 2 year old hens and new pullets so the eggs vary in
size
We have 3 cockerels
running with 15 hens.
Eggs available from the
20th March
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Cuckoo Maran
This active and graceful breed as shown in the
cuckoo colouring originate from France.
These heavy birds lay a good sized
brown egg. We have 2 breeding sets this year.
The one shown are now 18 months old
consisting of 12 hens and 2 cockerels.
The other set are this years pullets
and we have 16 pullets
and 2 cockerels.
The pullets eggs are not very big yet but
are quite dark for Cuckoo Marans.
Any chicks from these eggs will
grow into a normal sized birds.
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French Copper Black Maran
We
have 4 unrelated Copper Black cockerels running with
20 Copper Black pullets
Primarily any chicks that hatch from these eggs will be Copper
Black but you may get an
odd Copper Blue or Splash
The hens may lay up to 200
eggs a year. Hens are quite individual in their egg
colours, some are lighter than others and vary throughout the year.
Our breeding
birds are new pullets for this year so the eggs are not overly big yet
but are starting off a good colour. Any pullets from these hens will lay a dark brown egg as
the egg colour comes from the cockerels genes which is a dark egg
strain.
Eggs available from the
20th March
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French Copper Blue Maran
We have
1 Copper Blue Maran
cockerel and 2 Splash Maran cockerels running with 15 Copper Blue Maran pullets. They are all feathered legged.
The chicks hatch from these eggs will be a mixture of Blue, Black and Splash.
Some of the eggs are not yet over big as they
have not
been laying that long.
Eggs available from the
20th March
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French
White Maran
We have
2 French White Maran
cockerels running
with 5 hens. They are all feathered legged.
The
eggs are not as brown as some of the
other Maran colours but they are prolific layers.
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Blue Maran
We have a Pure Copper Blue
Maran and a Splash Maran cockerel
running with our
Blue Maran hens . The eggs from the Blue hens are a
cream/ light brown colour
but the cockerels are from a chocolate egg laying strain so any pullets hatched from these
eggs will lay dark brown eggs. The chicks that will hatch from these eggs
will be a mix of colours from Blue, Black and Splash or
even Red but will obviously all be pure Maran, we have
found that a high percentage are hatching blue.
The hens are large in size approx 8-9lb in weight
and lay a good sized
egg.
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Our stunning Splash
Maran Cockerel who is running with the Blue Maran hens.
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Vorwerk
This German Breed is know for it's
foraging abilities. Great for pony paddocks always last to bed.
They lay a good size cream coloured
egg.
We
have only a few hens so egg numbers from
these birds will be limited, we can
do mixes with other breeds or small clutches only
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Light
Sussex
This hardy
utility strain is an excellent laying and table bird.
We have 3
cockerels who are unrelated to each other running with 15 hens from 2
bloodlines.
Ideal for
crossing with the Indian Game for a good sized table bird
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One of the 3 Light Sussex cockerels running
with the breeding set.
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Silkie
Shown here on the right is the White Silkie but we
also keep
Gold,
Blue and Black.
Silkies make the best broodies, they are exceptionally
good at hatching and rearing young
Each hen will lay
approx 12-16 eggs before going broody, if prevented from remaining
broody they will continue to lay several clutches of eggs per year from
February to October. Our gold silkie breeding set is
all pure gold as you can see, however they do throw some partridge
coloured chicks.
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Black Silkie Set
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Blue
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Gold Silkie Set
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Partridge Wyandotte
We have 6 cockerels running with
20 partridge wyandotte hens.
The cockerels are from a bloodline we have had for
many years and all the pullets have been sourced from 2 different bloodlines. They lay a reasonable sized cream egg for
bantams. All the breeding birds are extremely friendly.
The
partridge make excellent broodies, ideal for someone who wants to sit
and hatch their own eggs. (As good as a silkie)
It is possible that from this breeding set
you may get an occasional Pure White Wyandotte chick.
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