Lots of chickies then lol. A lot of people round here have the RI and one keeper has black leghorn. We are tempted with them as I did like my white leghorn we had, which ended up being a pet really. If you can sell a trio of the pure breeds, you will sell them better, and for more money. Are you going to sell the eggs or do you eat a lot of eggs lol?

We are looking into buying an incubator but will have to be a cheap and cheerful one as we can't really afford it. I just love hatching eggs!

Helen

Oooh, I have been promised some fertile Light Sussex this weekend - for free!!

A guy across the road has a small flock, but isn't planning to hatch, but says if I want 6 eggs, I can have them, no charge!!

Brill!!!

Who has got what, and what are the plans for this year?

I've got my hybrid layers - 3 light sussex x, bluebelle and a black rock.

3 breeding turkeys - currently have 18 eggs in different incubators (we don't have an incubator at the moment).

3 ducks - 1 cherry valley, 1 runner x khaki campbell and 1 aylesbury type. All drakes unfortunately, so either looking to get rid of them all or keeping the aylesbury and finding a couple of ducks to put to him.

6 silkie x light sussex to be used for brooding grey partridges as part of a reintroduction scheme.

I am looking for some speckled sussex this year. OH wants bantams but we are struggling to find them so might have to go for full size. Might have sourced some fertile bantam eggs but they will have to be posted and not convinced about that. Ideally, I would like a trio so I can start breeding myself this year.

Finally, going to get some welsummer eggs back from a trio we gave to a friend.

Helen