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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: Read more

  • We began the whole idea of a pecking order: think about it, the clue is in the name: a pecking order is all to do with who is the leader in a group and who is under him/ her - there is an 'order' to this right down to the least dominant.

    Your language is full of chicken references: hen party; hen-pecked, feeling broody, ruling the roost, don't count your chickens... can you find out what all these mean??

One of these Red Leghorns is definitley telling the other one off!!!
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These youngsters are happily perching together as a group
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