The Sussex bantams starting laying and the eggs were just fantastic. fried/scrambled/soft boiled and wow poached, so fresh they can just be broken in to a pan of whisked simmering water for 1 minute.
The cute little Pekin's proved to be great layers of very tasty if somewhat tiny eggs, that make good money sold fertile for hatching from my breeding cages. approx 4 hens with a cockerel in black, buff, lavender, golden partridge and lavender (cuckoo Patten). Of course far more cockerels hatched than I could use in my breeding program so they were eaten at about 20 weeks of age (but I'll blog about that another time). Excess hens sold for £15-£20 each
The Cochin's have not been good layers and mine will eat there own eggs if they get chance. So one by one they are meeting the oven. The joy of pure breeds are they breed true where the hybrids do not and therefore are not suitable for breeding. However the pure breeds don't lay well in the winter and you just can't go back to store bought eggs after tasting your own. So I'm getting a few ex-battery chickens, rescuing a few girls who have been kept in poor conditions in exchange for a few eggs(hopefully year round) is a privilege.
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