Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[MaggieMcHen]

I am starting over as my flock has diminished to a couple of bird. I given them to a friend and am now about to restock. I am thinking of two or three Creamy Legbar, a couple of bantams or Pekins and 4 Pure breeds. Anyone got any suggestions for breeds - I am off to the Wernlas Collection on Thursday.

[Patricia W]

I'd always make room for a couple of ex-bats. So rewarding to see them develop - and in my experience, very entertaining characters and good layers of large brown eggs. I have 4 of my original 7 that I adopted nearly 18 months ago and each lays an egg every day without fail. Then I'd get blue egg layers and some deep brown egg layers. I could go on....

[Redwing]

Brilliant

 

Do give Wernlas a call before you go to check availability though as they are closing and having a huge sell off auction on 3rd Sept

 

Some people have visited to try to get stock before the auction and found that the owners wont sell stock that is entered in to the auction (which is most of it)

[Mercedes55]

I am starting over as my flock has diminished to a couple of bird. I given them to a friend and am now about to restock. I am thinking of two or three Creamy Legbar, a couple of bantams or Pekins and 4 Pure breeds. Anyone got any suggestions for breeds - I am off to the Wernlas Collection on Thursday.

 

I would get a Salmon Favorelle as they are just wonderful girls, so pretty and so placid. Plus they lay lovely cream coloured eggs and do lay quite a bit through the Winter too, which some pure breeds don't. I find Cream Legbars to be a bit flighty, although could just be own experience of them. Hope you come home with lots of pretty girls

[MaggieMcHen]

Went to Wernlas and now the proud possessor of:

 

1 Welsummer

3 Cream Legbars

1 Welbar

1 Wernlas Olive

2 Buff Plymouth Rock bantams

1 Brown Leghorn

 

all gorgeous and sweet and 8 - 10 weeks old - so plenty of time to get them seriously friendly. Lots of hand feeding and gazing in rapt delight.

 

Have taken the bars out of the Eglu and put straw in.

 

They are way too small for the cube at the moment.

 

No names yet except - obviously - Olive!

[migsy]

9

[Redwing]

Smashing thats a great mix

 

I do like buff Plymouth Rock bantams

[Mercedes55]

Oh they do sound lovely

[MaggieMcHen]

9

 

Got a bit carried away

 

They are getting used to me, Nutmeg (GS Guide Dog pup) and the grandchildren. Nutmeg thinks she isn't sure these count as hens so isn't really sure she needs to treat them as such - can't she just give chase a bit? All have grown already and some definite characters are coming out.