[New shoot]

Mine are bantams rather than hybrid layers and so take some time off over winter.  Today they were making a fuss and I assumed there was a cat in the garden.

After stomping out there and discovering these,  I had to stop muttering ‘darn chickens’ under my breath and go fetch them the afternoon snack of corn they were demanding 

[Alank]

I also only keep bantams and mine started laying a couple of weeks ago its so nice to be getting a few eggs again 

[snowdrops]

My 3 new ones(October) have laid all winter, the 3 ‘Old’ ones haven’t laid since last winter  even though they were new in October ‘21  . Must have been the most expensive eggs I’ve ever bought!