My Experience with Chickens

Hey guys, Eva here

Today I'm going to talk about my experience with chickens. In October of 2016 I purchased 6 chicken eggs from Kilkenny, Kilkenny is a county in the south east of Ireland.  I got 3 Cream Legbar eggs and 3 Bantam Buff Sussex eggs.

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 According to the Wikipedia page on Cream Legbars; Cream Legbar chickens were originally created in Great Britain by Michael Pease and Reginald Crundall Punnett in Cambridge University. They wanted to create a breed of chicken that could be easily auto-sexed just a few days after their birth. They crossed two different breeds of chickens; the Leghorn and the Barred Plymouth Rock.

 As discussed on the Wikipedia page of Sussex Chickens, Bantam Buff Sussex chickens also originate from Britain. They are believed to be bred in the area that became Sussex (a county in south east England). They came about in AD 43. They are very popular chickens and are also extremely beautiful.

Out of the six eggs I got in Kilkenny only 3 hatched. One had splayed legs at birth, however after watching a short and helpful video on YouTube I quickly learnt how to fix that (the video is down below). Sadly this little chick passed away 5 days after her birth, after many attempts to keep her alive such as keeping her on a hot water bottle to keep her warm, fixing her legs so she could walk and feeding her sugar water every few hours as she would not eat, it was unsuccessful.  The other two chicks were male and they were Cream Legbar, unlike their sister who was a Bantam Buff Sussex. Sadly when they were about two months old one of the male chickens murdered the other.

I learnt a lot from these chickens and I also learnt about the harsh reality of nature. It was an excellent experience and I would highly recommend incubating chicken eggs if you are interested.

That's all for this week

Bye guys!!



 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSPbqubJlU8