Introducing the
Cross Bank Farm
Heritage Hens
If you're reading this, you're probably holding a box eggs from our farm and for that, we would like to thank you for supporting us.
Allow us to introduce you to some of the team behind your eggs!
Here at Cross Bank Farm, we keep & hatch rare & heritage, native British hens (with the exception of our rescue girl Jak!).
We keep a deliberately small flock of sixteen hens and one distinguished gentleman, allowing for proper attention and high welfare standards. Fed on a quality corn-based diet, they have ample safe space to roam, forage and live as hens should.
JAK
Jak is a rescued Warren hen. She's around two years old and holds the lofty title of 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.
TULA
Tula is one of our Cream Legbar hens. She’s nine months old and is more flighty than a teenager when "mucking out" is mentioned!
Tula often sports an enviable hairdo and lays pale blue eggs.
PICKLE
Pickle is a seven month old speckled Orpington hen.
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.
CLEM FANDANGO
Clem Fandango is an Orpington rooster & 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.
DUMPLING
Dumpling is one of our super fluffy, 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.
BETTY
Betty is one of our three month old Light Sussex hens. Raised alongside Henry the turkey, Betty is a gentle little soul who loves nothing more than fermented corn for breakfast. Betty lays small-medium pale pink eggs.