Tag Archive | chickens

Linda’s chickens

Our friend Linda is not only a very generous chicken-egg-giver, but also a very talented chicken artist (is that a thing? Well, it is now): she has a Flickr album of the terrific drawings she has done of her chucks using her iPad.

So now I can match the eggs to the chicken:

Linda's eggs: left to right blue ones

Eggs from Linda’s chickens: left to right blue ones = Cotswold Legbar, little cream ones = Australorp; big white pointy ones = Ancona.

Cotswold Legbar by Linda Coleman.

Cotswold Legbar by Linda Coleman.

Australorp chicken by Linda Coleman.

Australorp chicken by Linda Coleman.

Ancona chicken by Linda Coleman.

Ancona chicken by Linda Coleman.

Eggy brekky

Our lovely friend Linda keeps chickens, and the other day she kindly gave us some eggs. They are so pretty! I don’t think the photos do them justice – the colours are much more lively than in the photos, and the differences between them greater. (I really do need to get a decent camera, I think).

Delicious fresh eggs from happy chickens!

Delicious fresh eggs from happy chickens.

I asked Linda about the breeds, and she tells me, left to right, they are from:

The blue ones = Cotswold Legbar (a breed from the Cotwolds in England)

The little cream ones = Australorp (a breed from Australia)

The big white pointy ones = Ancona (a breed from Italy).

She also has Fayoumi chucks as well, but no eggs from them on this occasion. Fayoumis are an Egyptian breed.

So pretty!

So pretty.

Linda’s League of Nations chickens have a great life: they spend a lot of time wandering round her garden (and destroying her plants), and the eggs they produce are absolutely delicious and the best we have ever eaten.

Breakfast (one of the Cotswold Legbar eggs).

Breakfast (one of the Cotswold Legbar eggs, poached). Yum!

I used Marcus Wareing‘s foolproof method for poaching, as detailed here.