Here is our outside flock of bantams and light breeds who are all around 2 years old. They were all bought as pullets.

Our Bantam Wyandottes

Happy Mrs Chicken is currently broody and screaming at anyone who wants to lay an egg. She did not moult last Autumn and has laid all Winter (it's Spring where I am), so hopefully she'll have a bit of a moult after this bout of broodiness - this photo was taken awhile ago when she was looking much more beautiful.


Sparkles is her sister and she too laid all Winter for us after spending most of Summer being broody.

Our Old English Game Bantams

Anna is our smallest chicken and she is very, very sweet.


Elsa has joined the broody bunch. She's a bit of a madam but she's so beautiful we don't care.


Sunflower LOVES sunflower seeds. She's not very friendly but our daughter loves her. Sunflower will mount Happy Mrs Chicken like a rooster and poor Happy is almost bald at the moment!


Pixie makes a great broody mother and she has hatched bantam eggs and willingly adopted Orpington chicks (which are now huge and living at my Mum's). She's very sweet and likes a bit of a chat.

Our Houdans

Dorothy is gorgeous and the boss of our flock. Her little pal is Anna who sticks by her as she knows Dorothy will protect her from the other bossy bantams.


Peppa has recently forgotten how to get off the roosting perch so every morning I have to help her! She's a bit of a feather brain!

Our Lavender Araucanas (British Tailed Araucanas)

Skye is very sweet. She came to live with us as she has a bit of a deformity and my Mum thought she'd do better with our light breeds and bantams.


Blueberry had wry neck as a young pullet which she recovered from just fine but Mum thought to be on the safe side she should join Skye in our coop. She's gorgeous but boy can she yell when there's a queue for the nestboxes (because everyone has to use the same one)!


Our currently indoor flock...

Our Booted Bantams

Hope is about 10 months old now and has been raising some Silkie chicks for us. She was broody for 10 weeks and had no intention of giving up until something started cheeping under her. I brought her inside to brood thinking the kids attention and noise might put her off, but it didn't! We bought her as a 4 month old pullet and despite growing up free range she's super friendly, loves cuddles, and adores everyone. She's very chatty too.


Ducky was hatched by one of the OEGBs. She was the only Booted Bantam egg to make it so I was very happy when she turned out to be a girl. She's the kids favourite as she was such a tiny chick. She's a little shy though and always has been, but she's so beautiful.

Our Pekin (Cochin) Bantams

Cotton was hatched with Ducky and she relies on Ducky a lot as she's a bit of a worry-wart. She has settled down since starting to lay. She has the most enormous foot feathering and she looks like a feather puddle when she squats!


Disco has a floppy comb, and not much in the way of leg feathering. She's always been friendly and confident and I was convinced she was a rooster. Thankfully she's another gorgeous girl.