Our Poultry
All our chickens, ducks and geese are completely free range - they are free to go anywhere they like in the daytime and enjoy the most natural lifestyle possible. The chickens spend much of their time dust-bathing in the barn or scratching around in the grass or the pig-pens. The ducks are very busy birds and spend the days waddling round the fields looking for food or swimming on their pond. The geese, though, are much more leisurely and wander round grazing.
The eggs are sold from the farm gate and are very popular for their flavour - 'proper free range' eggs are very different from commercial free range and have a lovely almost orange yolk. We also sell a few home-bred birds.
The eggs are sold from the farm gate and are very popular for their flavour - 'proper free range' eggs are very different from commercial free range and have a lovely almost orange yolk. We also sell a few home-bred birds.
The Chickens
Our chicken flock is composed of a variety of breeds which lay different coloured eggs, adding a bit more interest to the egg box.
We have:
Welsummers which lay a beautiful dark brown egg
Legbars and Araucanas which lay a light greeny blue egg
Anconas which lay a white egg
Marans which also lay a dark brown egg
Lavender Pekins - a bantam breed which also make good pet chickens
Silver Laced Wyandottes which lay a light coloured egg
Welsummer cross Legbars (Legsummers?) which lay an olive-coloured egg.
We have a few hybrids too, including Bluebelles and Speckledys.
We have:
Welsummers which lay a beautiful dark brown egg
Legbars and Araucanas which lay a light greeny blue egg
Anconas which lay a white egg
Marans which also lay a dark brown egg
Lavender Pekins - a bantam breed which also make good pet chickens
Silver Laced Wyandottes which lay a light coloured egg
Welsummer cross Legbars (Legsummers?) which lay an olive-coloured egg.
We have a few hybrids too, including Bluebelles and Speckledys.
Ducks and Geese
Bugsy, our gander, has been with us for 23 years and always has at least one wife to keep him company. We have Khaki Campbell and Aylesbury-type ducks who provide much amusement as well as a good supply of eggs.
Duck and goose eggs are available seasonally - goose eggs usually through spring and duck eggs most of the year except for a few months when their production drops.
Duck and goose eggs are available seasonally - goose eggs usually through spring and duck eggs most of the year except for a few months when their production drops.