Eglu Go With 2m Run For Sale

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The frizzles we wanted turned out to be cockerels, so we decided to go for hybrids to keep the cube in use with our 2 original omlet girls!

 

We got:

 

Myrtle - Blue Haze

Olive - Barred Rock X

Skye - Skyline

No-Name-Chicken (as yet, my OH is indecisive) - Amber

 

 

We were told most of the chickens in the barn and pens were around 17 weeks, but I think these look a bit younger - my omlet girls had huge headgear compared to these ones, except the blue haze, whose comb is just a bit smaller than my PP's... I think she'll start laying soonest!

 

http://s1022.photobucket.com/albums/af345/squiffs/New%20chickens/

Edited August 26, 2011 by Guest

[LolaLayla]

They are lovely and look as if they are making themselves at home

[Redwing]

They are lovely and look very healthy. I do like the Ambers, they are such friendly chooks

 

Barred Rocks are a pure breed

[squiffs]

They are lovely and look very healthy. I do like the Ambers, they are such friendly chooks

 

Barred Rocks are a pure breed

 

 

They are? They were sold as hybrids - that's all the farm stocks! Perhaps they're not actually barred rocks - this one looks a lot less stripey than others I have seen... she is lovely, I was originally going to get a speckled maran, but Olive was up on a perch peering at me and bokking through the mesh whilst I was trying to spot a speckled and I said 'you know what, I have to have this one as she's just being so inquisitive and had a polite chat'

[Happy Mrs Chicken]

They are lovely ,really like the Amber one.Are they called Amber Star or just Amber? I can't decide which chickens to get when i eventually get some more.

[squiffs]

They are lovely ,really like the Amber one.Are they called Amber Star or just Amber? I can't decide which chickens to get when i eventually get some more.

 

 

She's just an amber, but I think they're both the same though, as different farms/breeders call their hybrids different things - some people call their skylines 'heritage skylines' for eg.

 

I got mine from Martins Wood Farm - they have so many lovely birds, and a big pen full of their laying stock so you can get an idea of what the chooks will look like when they mature

 

I desperately wanted an Amber with the speckled markings, apparently they're less common though so we had to go and look through their younger stock to nab one - oh well! this way if she gets dirty it will be less noticeable

[Redwing]

They are lovely and look very healthy. I do like the Ambers, they are such friendly chooks

 

Barred Rocks are a pure breed

 

 

They are? They were sold as hybrids - that's all the farm stocks! Perhaps they're not actually barred rocks - this one looks a lot less stripey than others I have seen... she is lovely, I was originally going to get a speckled maran, but Olive was up on a perch peering at me and bokking through the mesh whilst I was trying to spot a speckled and I said 'you know what, I have to have this one as she's just being so inquisitive and had a polite chat'

 

hybrids are so nosey! She isnt a Barred rock as you say the markings arent clear enough but I am sure they must be in her hybrid make-up. whatever way she is very pretty and will lay you winter eggs

[squiffs]

They are lovely and look very healthy. I do like the Ambers, they are such friendly chooks

 

Barred Rocks are a pure breed

 

 

They are? They were sold as hybrids - that's all the farm stocks! Perhaps they're not actually barred rocks - this one looks a lot less stripey than others I have seen... she is lovely, I was originally going to get a speckled maran, but Olive was up on a perch peering at me and bokking through the mesh whilst I was trying to spot a speckled and I said 'you know what, I have to have this one as she's just being so inquisitive and had a polite chat'

 

hybrids are so nosey! She isnt a Barred rock as you say the markings arent clear enough but I am sure they must be in her hybrid make-up. whatever way she is very pretty and will lay you winter eggs

 

 

I shall refer to her as a Barred Rock X Bitza

[squiffs]

My OH has plumped for 'Bella' for the Amber - he wanted to call her Barbie, but we've already got a Babs/Barbara so I said he wasn't allowed

[Chortle Chook]

What pretty chickens. I love that creamy white one, but know nothing about Hybrids. Is she the Skyline? Also is a Blue Haze the same as a Bluebell?

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What pretty chickens. I love that creamy white one, but know nothing about Hybrids. Is she the Skyline? Also is a Blue Haze the same as a Bluebell?

 

The creamy white one is an Amber, the blue haze is the grey-tone one, very similar to a bluebelle - I'd imagine Martin Woods Farm's version

 

The skyline is the brown/grey/gold etc one with a topknot, a cream legbar cross which I'm will lay or !

 

I have just taken some much better shots with my digital camera, so I'll upload them to photobucket asap!

[muppet22]

whats on the floor of your run? looks good ... !!

[vickichicky]

Lovely photo's!

My neighbour up the road has a skyline and she lays lovely eggs. I've got a cream Legbar which lays exactly the same colour. I had an Amber rather unimaginatively called....Amber

She was a very friendly girl and layed brilliantly for a whole year before the EVIL fox got her back in May. She was quite speckled/splodgy - lovely markings. I'll dig out a photo of her and upload it

Enjoy your girls!

[lilybetbee]

Lovely, one of my original hybrids was a blue one like that and she was the friendliest of the four.

[vickichicky]

here she is bless her. Was devastated when the fox got her

and

 

my Amber chicken

[squiffs]

whats on the floor of your run? looks good ... !!

 

 

it's 'rustic red' softwood chip from b&q £5.98 per 100litres

 

2 bags for the cube run and 1 bag in each eglu - it tends to fly about a lot less than the chunkier hardwood chip we had the other chickens on, so I went for more of it for the new girls

Edited August 26, 2011 by Guest

[Lewis]

The cuckoo/barred is a Speckled Star

 

They're all pretty much the same hybrids and can some from the same farms but each stockist can sometimes call them a slightly different name. We call those a Bluebelle, Speckled Star, Skyline and Amber Lee

 

Only like a Goldine being a Gingernut Ranger and Black Star being Mrs Pepperpot at Omlet

[squiffs]

here she is bless her. Was devastated when the fox got her

and

 

my Amber chicken

 

 

she's LAVVLY! such a shame when those nasty mangey things get the better of us

Edited August 26, 2011 by Guest

[squiffs]

The cuckoo/barred is a Speckled Star

 

 

 

I did think she looked like the inverse of the speckled marans they had there - more speckled than barred. She's gawjus

[squiffs]

does anyone else want to take a guess at how old they are? some chickens there were between 17 and 21 weeks, but I have a feeling my amber is maybe even about 12 weeks? her comb is almost non existant! my omlet hens were probably 18 weeks at youngest and were far more developed when they arrived.

 

here's my the day she arrived.

[Lewis]

Chances are your Omlet hens were older than 18 weeks, they get them in all together at around that age and they'll stay at HQ until they've all gone which could be a good few weeks after that. Some of them have been laying for a few weeks, (we've had 4 hens in a cube at shows and 4 eggs from them each day) depends how long the time between the hens being delivered and they were delivered to you, is

 

Wouldn't say your Amber is 12 weeks, would be much smaller than she is.

Comb looks fine for a young POL, maybe about 17 weeks old

[squiffs]

Chances are your Omlet hens were older than 18 weeks, they get them in all together at around that age and they'll stay at HQ until they've all gone which could be a good few weeks after that. Some of them have been laying for a few weeks, (we've had 4 hens in a cube at shows and 4 eggs from them each day) depends how long the time between the hens being delivered and they were delivered to you, is

 

Wouldn't say your Amber is 12 weeks, would be much smaller than she is.

Comb looks fine for a young POL, maybe about 17 weeks old

 

My laid from day one, my didn't lay for a month, I'm confused!

 

 

I guess I'm just finding it hard to see my new lot getting to the stage of development my and were at when they started laying within the next few weeks - I think it will be at least 2 months before I see eggs from the Martins Wood Girlies!

 

My the day she arrived/ a month before her first egg: