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The Relaxed Farming Chickens: Fascinating facts
All about us
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Why keep chickens
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Fascinating facts
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How to look after us
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Our offspring
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Relaxed FarmingFascinating Facts (as explored by our Welsummer/Leghorn cross) - I have the Leghorn tail and comb and the Welsummer body and I am very pretty. Nowadays there are well over a hundred chicken breeds in the UK and goodness knows how many hybrids and crosses: a chicken to suit every human taste (and I don't mean the meat...)

  • We have a set number of eggs we can lay: Read more

  • One egg takes 26 hours to develop (more or less): Read more

  • Fresh eggs, rotten eggs, small eggs, large eggs: Read more

  • There's a lot of maths (and physics) in an egg: Read more

  • Our average life span is eight years: though some of us can go on for MUCH longer (if the fox does not get to us first!!!). We are all called chickens but if you want to say which is male/female then us girls are the hens and the boys the cockerels. Strictly speaking when a cockerel is fully grown he becomes known as a cock!

    Up until we lay our first egg we are known as pullets and when we first hatch we are known as chicks.

    When we want to hatch some eggs we go 'broody' and from then on are actually called broodies (although not me, I don't do broodiness thanks very much...).

  • We began the whole idea of a pecking order: Read more

 A young Light Sussex pullet
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This Pekin bantam is very broody
and wants you to go away...
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