It's pot luck when buying eggs to be honest. In any case don't bother buying any hatching eggs until April as the fertility levels are generally crap and you will be chucking your money away.

Leghorn bantam, lays white eggs and in full size it's Bovans Brown or ISA Brown which lay brown eggs, though not a huge difference between any of the brown laying hybrids in egg numbers, they all lay around the 320-350 mark in the first year. White full size birds (though they are still small) it's ...

Hi Rufus

Welcome aboard. Hope for your sake you don't support the Monkey Hangers, it's looking grim for them at the mo.

I reckon this video came about as a result of a scorpion smoking session. The Indian sub continent's answer to Michael Jackson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HpKe1l ... e=youtu.be

Try to give it at least 40 seconds, you're forgiven for turning off at any point after that.

https://twitter.com/CrazyGloble/status/ ... 5269983232

This account has some great little clips on it.

I know what you mean BYM, I probably get more blank looks than laughs for my jokes.

Another great one BYM. Like they say, if they come back they can always get a qualified Sturgeon to remove them with a laser Bream.

Bad news!. Ours are already locked in after a fox took one of the Araucanas so it will make no difference here, but I would imagine the free range farms are in for another testing time.

Dye, what you feed them won't make any difference as long as they are pecking each others feathers out as soon as they grow. Get yourself enough bumpa bits (just google them) for all of your hens and fit them for two weeks and see if there is any improvement.

Pecking is most often due to boredom/lack of space.