We have taken the cockerels away from all the breeding hens for the winter.
They are all having a holiday until March when we will put them all back together again.
We are therefore not able to take any orders for any of the breeds we keep until Spring.

Please email again later in the year when we can advise on availability of
hatching eggs or do get in touch if you are interested in
any of the livestock we have for sale.

Thank you for your support in 2009.

 

•  We are based on the Devon/ Somerset border near Hemyock and have been keeping poultry for many years.
   
•  Click on the breed names listed below to see pictures of the breeding sets we keep.
   
•  All our chickens are purebred, unrelated and kept in large grass pens.
   
•  Contact us if you have any special requests/ queries or would like to order any eggs.
   
•  We do sometimes have livestock for sale, however these would be for collection only.
    Please use the link below to see what is available.

 

•   Cream Legbar
•   Indian Game
•   Welsummer
•   Silver Duckwing Welsummer
•   Green Leg Partridge Hen (From Poland)
•   Araucana
•   Cuckoo Maran
•   Copper Black Maran
•   Copper Blue Maran
•   French White Maran
•   Blue Maran
•   Vorwerk
•   Light Sussex

•   Silkie (White, Gold, Black and Blue)
•   Partridge Wyandotte

This is one of our 4 pure bred
Cream Legbar Cockerels

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 new cockerels this year that
are simply stunning

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.

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


 

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.

 

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.
 

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.

French Copper Black Maran

We have unrelated cockerels
(4 Copper Black and 1 Splash)
running with 25 Copper Black hens.

You will get a mixture of chicks from these eggs ranging from Copper Black, Copper Blue and some 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 a mixture of pullets and older hens, the older hens egg colouring is not as dark this year probably due to the amount of eggs they have laid. 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.

 

French Copper Blue Maran

We have 3 Copper Blue Maran cockerels running with
Copper Blue Maran pullets.
They are all feathered legged.

The chicks hatch from these eggs will be a
mixture of Blue, Black and Splash.

They are all good sized birds and will lay a
large brown egg.
Some of the eggs are not yet over big as they
have not been laying that long.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

This years eggs are from pullets and are not full
size yet, but chicks from these eggs will grow
into normal sized birds.

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 12 hens from 2 bloodlines.

Ideal for crossing with the Indian Game
for a good sized table bird

One of the 3 Light Sussex cockerels running
with the breeding set.

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.

Gold Silkie Set  

Partridge Wyandotte

We have 4 cockerels running with
15 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)