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Hi, hybrids tend to be bread for either egg production or eating. The ones that lay eggs tend to not have white coloured skin. Have the golden comets got white skin are they a dual purpose bird??

If not it may put you off eating them.

hedgewizard, I suppose you are living to tell the tale! LOL

I've been intrested in fungi for a while. Got the books, done the spaw prints etc for identification but I've still not ate one. I look at it like this. Is that mushroom really worth burning your mouth out over or even worse killing yourself? I think you really need someone to take you that has very...

It's really terrible that hens are kept in such conditions for eggs. I watched Jimmys Farm and I think he's dropped another clanger looking at this from a commercial point of view. Yes, it's great to rescue battery hens, but the reason they have been taken out of the battery farms is that they are n...

welcome henut good old barnsley market, and the chip shop up a little alleyway off the shopping centre and barnsley chop yummmmmmmmmmm.i live in worksop ay up a pea mix and a sherbet !!! Hey up mucker! Ina, yes a Freudian mis-spelling - I am a little nuts and I've a black keyboard and was typing in...

Hi chaps, thanks for the warm welcome! Fantastic resource you have here. I can see me reading into the early hours for the next few weeks....

Well done!

Hello everyone, I just done my first post to a quesion about hens so I thought I better pop in here and introduce myself. I'm Andrew, 33, 1 child, wife, cat, mortgage and 12 Hens! :roll: I work for myself so I get plently of time to go down to my allotment which I've now had for 2 years. Love growin...

Has anyone kept Marans or Welsummers, both look 'pretty' (sorry for being a bit shallow there but appearence does have its effect) and were suggested by a breeder for gardens. They would be egg laying pets and would never find their way to the table. Oh yes my neighbour is a bit concerned about the...