White Leghorns strut proudly around your garden and lay tasty white eggs. They make very good garden hens. The Leghorn is a breed of hen with origins in Tuscany. White Leghorns are among the most popular commercial strains of layer hens worldwide.

 

 

Amberlink are smaller, very pretty birds. They lack the dramatic comb of the Leghorns and their feathers are white, but speckled with brown. They lay brown eggs.

 

 

 

The Gingernut is a pretty little hen with ginger coloured feathers and black feathers in her wing and her tail. She is a very friendly bird. She will lay brown eggs.  

 

 

 

 

 
The Skyline is a new addition to our range at Colehurst. She is a very pretty hen, similar in some ways to the Cream Legbar, from which she has been bred. Her colour will vary, from grey and blue to brown, and some have a feathered head tuft. She will lay around 250 blue or coloured eggs a year.

  

 

 

The Light Sussex Hen  She lays large light brown eggs, and if you keep her healthy and well fed, then she will lay around 250 eggs a year is a popular backyard hen in many countries. She has been bred as a 'dual purpose' hen which means that she can be reared for meat as well as for eggs - although we supply Light Sussex for egg laying only. She has a white body with a black tail and black wing tips. Her neck is white, striped with black and she has a very striking appearance. The Light Sussex is an alert, docile breed that can adapt to any surrounding. 

 

 

The Bluebell hen and the Speckeldy hen are hybrids bred from the Maran and Rhode Island Red breeds.  Bluebells and Speckeldys are beautiful birds, robust and healthy, with attractive blue-grey feathering. A healthy Bluebell at the peak of her lay will give you around 240 lovely brown-coloured eggs per year.  They have the added advantage of being very good-natured birds, are easy to handle, and make excellent garden hens.

 

 

 Find out which varieties we have in stock by calling us on 07802 540 402