Just finished reading all the pages!
I must say Granny I love your anecdotes and conversation with enola, twisted acres, manychitlets, Suzierd, campingshaws, Wishing4Wings and everyone else.
You totally tricked me with that April fools story, I thought - what bad policemen not taking you seriously on April Fools Day... Waiiiiitttttt..... Did I read that right? I then proceeded to reread it about 4 times before I realised how gullible I am lol. I was also tricked by the BYC mod thing.
As for favourite breeds - I used to have Polish who I loved and was mad and beautiful, she would squawk for me to come over and hold her but she never laid. My other one was so sweet but really shy with the others.
I also used to have a blackrock who was so gorgeous as well.
Now I have a leghorn who is mad as a hatter - whenever the others lay she is there with them clucking an extra loud egg song. She is always dirty no matter what I do and I love her extra large white eggs. She is top of the pecking order and is very dominant (nothing more than a few pecks though) but she does get my Araucana to squat! I raised her from a chick but regardless before she began laying I could never catch her; now she comes up to me and eats from my hand. <3
My exbattery is so sweet and always comes up to me when I call. She is never mean to the other girls but they don't dare mess with her. As soon as the sun comes out she is always sunbathing in a hole.Unfortunately, ex batteries aren't built for longevity so she only lays sporadically but she is a tough girl, she survived being bitten by a fox with a broken rib and three broken toes, we thought she would never scratch as she used to hop everywhere but now she is always digging holes to sit in - making up for lost time!
My Araucana lays the most beautiful blue green eggs, and is still a little nervous around me but will still eat out of my hand, she is the largest girl and is a real softie!
My Appenzeller Spitzhauben only started laying today - a tiny white egg at the grand age of 50 and a bit weeks. She is a tad flighty and will only come within a foot of me but is sooo pretty!
If you lot want pics, just let me know!
Welcome to the thread!
and we love pictures! 
Polish are one of my favorites I love their big crest and Silkies of course.
:yiipchick So far, here's what I know about them. Chicky is VERY curious about everything. She comes right out from under the brooder to check out whatever is looking in... the kids, us, the cats with hungry looks in their eyes, etc. She didn't know how to actually lay down last night, and couldn't figure out how to get in and out of the heat. I kept having to help. Luckily she figured it out. 
Then two weeks ago they had a baby (already had a toddling boy). So I offered to take the roos (thinking there were 5 or 6) to lighten their load a bit. 
