Hens - Wyandottes Chickens in many colours

Honey cream and Coffee Creams

Clare Skelton — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:26:17 +0000

HoneyCream A new ground colour has popped up in the flock. It changes gold to a light yellow ochre. When two are bred together you get half the same yellow ochre, a quarter regular gold and a quarter are homozygous which looks very pale cream, almost white. It does vary a bit depending on any … Continue reading Honey cream and Coffee Creams →

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Flax Farm Flock Boosters for Hens & Other Poultry

Clare Skelton — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 19:51:32 +0000

A treat that’s a boost of health in every handful Flax Farm gold flaxseed is a superfood treat for hens. Glossy healthy plumage Strong immune system Resistance to infection Fertility Flaxseed, rich in omega-3 the anti-inflammatory fat, and lignans, an incredible phytonutrient that’s 800 times more powerful than vitamin E. It has been a much-prescribed … Continue reading Flax Farm Flock Boosters for Hens & Other Poultry →

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Red Millefleur Project

Clare Skelton — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:55:26 +0000

I’ve just moved this chap, he was hating being segregated into a cockerel pen but is now very happy policing youngsters in a run immediately outside my office window. He is my male for the Red Millefleur Wyandotte project. I’m hoping he will breed dark red millefleurs next year. He’s a lovely chunky chap and … Continue reading Red Millefleur Project →

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Fabulous Flax for Health & Flavour

Clare Skelton — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:30:58 +0000

Whether you know it as linseed or flax this is the most amazing food. Linseed is so rich in nutritional properties that it is probably the most prescribed and used food for therapeutic reasons. Flax Farm makes a number of tasty products from it as well as producing the best of cold-pressed linseed (flaxseed) oil, … Continue reading Fabulous Flax for Health & Flavour →

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Keeping Chickens safe from foxes and other predators

Clare Skelton — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 13:18:56 +0000

Predator attacks can be prevented so I feel even sadder when I hear that someone’s chickens have all been killed by a fox and the children are distraught. So I am putting down my experience of how to keep birds safe in the hope it save the birds from the terror and families from the … Continue reading Keeping Chickens safe from foxes and other predators →

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Unusual Wyandotte Poultry Colours

Clare Skelton — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:17:12 +0000

Unusual colours and patterns Hens and cockerels

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2018 Mottled Wyandottes

Clare Skelton — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 15:31:52 +0000

Well patterned mottled Wyandottes Some nice mottled birds appearing. Particularly pleased with mottling on the neck and well patterned, not pure white flights.

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Home bred Millefleur Bantams

Clare Skelton — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 14:51:05 +0000

These are all growers, I am impatient and like to look at them even at this stage, hopefully they will improve with time.

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PORCELAIN PROJECT GROWERS, DUTCH CONNECTION,

Clare Skelton — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:50:08 +0000

Black-gold Millefleur Growers 2018 hatched in the UK, bred by Danny Stindt. I have sexed them best I can but don’t know the strain and as they mature some may prove me wrong. These are the black ones that carry lavender. Ditch parent birds Lavender PP page Males Females

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Porcelain Project Growers, Dutch connection, Lavenders

Clare Skelton — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 13:36:12 +0000

Lavender Millefleur Growers 2018 hatched in the UK, bred by Danny Stindt. I have sexed them best I can but don’t know the strain and as they mature some may prove me wrong. Dutch Parent Birds Lavender carrying millies page Males Lavender porcelain project millefleur Wyandotte males Females

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