tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7977539438223210156.post7191572116801399265..comments2023-10-23T17:01:45.554+01:00Comments on Being a Smallholder: New Chicken HousesDenisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14534642413335823675noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7977539438223210156.post-24491218209311649712011-03-14T21:36:42.470+00:002011-03-14T21:36:42.470+00:00Swish chicken house! We have some Marans that we i...Swish chicken house! We have some Marans that we incubated from bought eggs. They're docile (as in not fighting with the others) and active (our hens free range wherever they want). The eggs are large and brown and people like to buy them. I would definitely recommend Marans. We recently got four Black Rocks to try as we were running short of good egg layers and they've turned out to be great looking birds, black and copper, as nicely behaved as the Marans but a bit daintier. They lay a tinted egg and should be prolific layers. We have a mixture of 'pretty' birds that lay a reasonable number of eggs as we sell them and we like to have birds lay right through the winter, we normally keep 30-40 layers and table birds, mostly reared from bought eggs.<br />JoannaMinervahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01814859694807374828noreply@blogger.com