Meet our “Fancy Layers”
meet our small flock of beautiful chickens that are so colourful and fun to watch.
We have four different breeds of chickens in this flock. Caramel Queens, Rockettes, Light Sussex, and Ameraucanas.
We hope that some of our hens will want to sit on their eggs this spring and hatch some chicks for us to watch grow up.
Caramel Queen
These chickens look similar to the production red layers but with a little more decoration. They will lay a dark brown egg.
(Photo credit : Martine Matson)
Rockettes
These black and white birds have great personalities. They are friendly and gentle. They are known for being good about laying in their laying boxes (and not sending you on egg hunts!) They lay a lot of eggs in the summer months. One of our Rockettes laid the first egg of the group late November. Yay!!
Light Sussex
Light Sussex chickens are active foragers, good mouse catchers and very friendly, tame birds. They are known to go broody - which means they like to sit on their eggs until they hatch (Which is exactly what we are hoping for!!) They are known to be good mothers so we can’t wait to see if we get some baby chicks to grow up on our farm in the spring!
Ameraucanas
The Ameraucana’s are really cool because they each look unique. While it is hard to tell that they are the same breed because of their feather colouring, you can recognize them by the colour of their legs! instead of yellow legs, theirs are a blackish blue! That is not the only special thing about these chickens… the hens lay blue/green eggs! That is right - the egg itself is just like white or brown eggs inside, but the shell is green!
“The Ameraucana is an American breed of domestic chicken. It was developed in the United States in the 1970s, and derives from Araucana chickens brought from Chile. It was bred to retain the blue-egg gene but eliminate the lethal alleles of the parent breed. There are both standard-sized and bantam versions.” - Wikipedia
We are so excited to watch these lively and gorgeous chickens grow up on the Sea Ranch. We just love watching their personalities evolve!