There aint no drama with a Brahma!!

On a bitterly cold winters day, one of our lady Brahmas brought a ray of sunshine. Let me introduce you to the lady.

This is Buffy the Brahma and today was a very special day for her - she laid her very first egg!! It is lovely to think that she is 'one of our own', hatched out by Carpet our lovely bantam mother.

We watched her grow with her siblings, through spikey tails, bad hair days and fluffy bottoms.

Being a large breed of chicken their growth rate was incredible and they were soon in the outside coup using the perch and bigger than their foster mother!!

However one grew more than the others - let me introduce Buffy's brother

This is Big Boy - our Brahma cockerel - he's getting up to 40cm tall, but he is so soft he is lovely and a joy. He too had a special moment not so long ago - he started to crow!!

They certainly are very special hens in many ways - looks and temperament just to name a couple.

And certainly a very welcome addition to the flock and now of course their eggs are soon to become a very welcome addition to our egg boxes.

Bigger than a bantam but not yet hen size, Buffy's first egg (top middle) looks like porcelain, with a gorgeous pinky tinge - beautiful, just like Buffy and her brother and sisters.