Typical Hen Prices ?

Thanks Vember.  I was asked was there any I liked and she stood out and said her.   They are not egging yet but they look very nice.  I have not named them.  I am trying not to as once you named them  they tend to cark it, or is that me?

That's just you!

Get them named, they'll lay quicker if you give them a name and don't refer to them as:   her, she, it, that one and oi  

An the Amber looks she should be called Ruby

Some of our Amberlinks are getting their browny feathers too now, same family as your Amber Rocket Roughlee!
And the browny coppery one looks like our Babcocks!

Must just be one big supplier out there!! She looks lovely she was the most striking of the lot.

That's just you!  
Get them named, they'll lay quicker if you give them a name and don't refer to them as:   her, she, it, that one and oi  
An the Amber looks she should be called Ruby

Ruby? mmmmm OK I will try to remember that.  It may change when her personality comes out.

Lovely lovely chooks. So nice to see them being kept the way they should after a number of recent upsetting disappointments
Always good to know about the good guys as well as the ones to avoid like the plague :shock:

The difference is quiet amazing between the good guys and the bad!!!

hello all,
podgyhodgy is the name but you can call me podgy if you like.  First post about chickens so I hope this is an appropriate place.

bought my first hens in 20 years last wednesday at hereford market poultry auction.  bought 5 pol amber stars for £5 each (with buyers premium and vat more like £6.50).  Met the lady selling them as i was transferring them to my own box from hers and she told me they were 23 weeks and already laying.  Well, got them home about 1.30 and by 5 oclock had 4 eggs in a cardboard box which the bantams (see below) came in which i had left lying under a table in the run.  Have had 4 or 5 eggs every day since.  How lucky am I?

Also bought (unplanned) 3 black and 2 patch young andalucian bantam pullets. £2.50 + bp + vat for the black ones and £1.50 each the patches.  chicks can be had for 20-50 pence each and fertile eggs for £1 a dozen.  incubator £20 to £25.

Will write some more with some pics asap.  Back to the market on wednesday for a couple more though.....

I've had £50 worth of enjoyment out of them already.
cheers!

Some of our Amberlinks are getting their browny feathers too now, same family as your Amber Rocket Roughlee!

And the browny coppery one looks like our Babcocks!

Just a question do you know when your Amberlinks and Babcocks start laying?  These girls are 16 weeks old.

Thanks for that information Grannie.  Not that its a problem at the moment.  I am getting four eggs aday and every couple of days getting 5.  Oh one thing I noticed over the weekend the one or two of the  X batts certainly make a noise when laying.  Mind you I think I would if I layed an egg.

Fingers crossed she will lay soon for you. I have had to set up three feeders as the new girls keep being chased off the feed by the other five.  I had a cunning plan on Sunday.  The run (when its set up as a run for newbies) is long and thin.  With the muck heap being at the far endish of the run I have left the end open and the established girls wander off to the muck heap eat come back to the coop and drink and eat and then back to the muck heap.  Not that i have been sat watching for hours.  The newbies do not go far from the coop so this gives them some rest bite from the constant bullying. I do like chickens.  The eggs are just a plus to it all.