Introducing
the
cross bank farm
heritage hens
Meet some of the team behind your eggs.
Here at Cross Bank Farm, we only keep & hatch heritage hens.
We've a lovely team of sixteen ladies and a two strong team of
distinguished gentlemen!
Jak
Jak is a Warren hen, two years old and is the site foreman when any work is happening around the farm. She stands on equipment, pecks the tools & clucks her approval (or disapproval).
Jak lays lovely pale brown eggs.
clem fandango
Clem Fandango can't lay eggs but he's a valued member of the team. If there's any food on offer, I would like to say he remembers his manners, but sadly he simply doesn't and will have your finger, and probably arm off, to get whatever it is.
Tula
Tula is one of our Cream Legbar hens. Only seven months old and is more flighty than a teenager when "mucking out" is mentioned.
Tula sports an enviable hairdo and lays pale blue eggs.
dumpling
Dumpling is one of our seven month old, white Cochin hens. Enormous, exceptionally gentle & never far from where the food might appear, She lays pale cream-coloured eggs and is completely untroubled by the world around her.
Bobb
Bobb is... unapologetically Bobb!
She's a one year old cross between a Cream Legbar and an Orpington.
Bobb lays beautiful dark brown/green eggs, is the first to lay each morning & always informs us of the arrival with a lengthy chorus, sung with much gusto!
pickle
Pickle is a seven month old speckled Orpington hens.
Gigantic, impressively fluffy & extremely fond of food, she also enjoys a good stroke and will happily loiter until one is offered. Pickle lays light brown eggs.