Today one of my Bellecross Belle hens came back into lay again after coming through the moult.
The Bellecross Belles are an olive egg layer - a cross using a Welsummer cockerel and Cream Legbar hens. It is a cross I am really pleased with. The hens are of a similar size to a Welsummer bird, also of the same colouring but with the little head crest of the Cream Legbars.
They have a very friendly character and lay a large egg of varying shades of olive, depending on the darkness of the eggs the hens hatched from and the cockerel used. They also make great mothers and as an added bonus the chicks are auto sexing .
A few days ago my Goldtop also came back into lay. She is a traditional cross of a Silkie cockerel over Light Sussex hens, A cross used for many generations to produce an a excellent broody and true to her breed after a couple weeks of laying I fully expect my little hen to go broody.
