Breeding Chickens
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The Farm has several different breeds of chicken which provide the eggs for incubating both at the Farm and in the Hatch Packs which go out to schools. If you visit the Farm during the Spring you may see some of the chicks hatched from these chickens.
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| Rhode Island Reds were originally developed in America. They are a deep-red feathered chicken which lays brown eggs.
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| Light Sussex chickens are white feathered birds with black patterning around the neck and in the tail which lay brown eggs. They were originally developed in Sussex in England.
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Silkies are a fancy breed of chicken that has very fine, downey feathers, feather legs and feet and blue-tinted skin. They come in white, black and golden varieties.
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The Silkie chickens are one of the animals available in our Animal Share scheme.
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