We started with four ex-battery hens in Sept 2009 … but since then have added more and lost a few, so at the time of posting, these are our current girls …
BRIDGET One of the very first girls, and always top hen!
CHARITY & VERITY Light Sussex hens, which are dual purpose birds, so heavier than layers. Both feisty ladies, Charity is the loudest and Verity the largest.
DELIA Our one remaining Rhode Rock (a hybrid), faithful egg layer, always losing feathers to bullying, but she’s not quite bottom hen …
HONEY, TREACLE & SUGAR Our newest arrivals came to us only 9 weeks old. Welsummers are a beautiful, soft feathered variety, and took a long time to come into lay, but now lay brown, sometimes speckled, eggs. They are gentle birds, and tolerate being bottom of the pecking order, though Sugar is more often on a different wavelength altogether.
In the past two years we’ve said goodbye to three ex-batts – Gertrude and Yolande with peritonitis, and Roberta from old age – one Light Sussex (Patience) again with peritonitis and one Rhode Rock (Clarissa – still alive somewhere, but passed on for bad behaviour!). These pics are mostly of the older girls – click on Hen Pics on the sidebar for more up to date photos.
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Ex-batts | Light Sussex | Rhode Rocks | Welsummers | Online Album
