[moorlander]

Hi there.
I'm laying down some Scots Grey eggs in the incy this week.
The cock is a splendid (and very active) specimen from Devon eggs and the hens are super healthy birds from Market Drayton eggs.
Scots Greys are a lovely pure breed - active, good foragers, hardy for cold times, friendly and amusing in their antics. Eggs are creamy white to buff. Mine have very good shell quality.
Whilst the breed is not exactly 'endangered', it could do with more folk adopting them and making the breed 'safer'.
Let me know if you want hatching eggs, day olds or six week olds. I will not be growing them on to PoL as I intend to be away a bit this summer and don't want an ever-growing flock for others to have to look after.
Hatching eggs are still on the small side of mature. If you are interested, you can either buy now or wait and keep in touch to see how my hatch flourishes.
I will be selling the birds in trios and above up to 1cock/7 hens ('Rabbie' seems to cope with six hens well within his 'stride'.)
I will not sell less than three birds at a time. (Unless you've got other birds they will eventually mix with)
Hatching eggs can be collected or posted in polystyrene boxes.
Birds must be collected. Birds needing heat will not be sold without assurance that a heated brooder is in place.
Hatching eggs - £6 per 1/2 dozen, + P&P at fair cost.
Day-olds at £1.50 each
6 weeks at £5 each - in between, by fair adjustment.

Day-olds and older must be collected. Staffordshire Mooorlands

My email is [email protected]  - My phone No is 01538 308506
Photos of parents available via email on request.

I am not a 'trader' - simply a poultryman who loves Black and White birds
I will also have some Norfolk Greys hopefully in this hatch. 'Fred' the cockerel hasn't 'quite got the knack' yet and so fertility will be down and so hatching eggs are out this year. Get in touch if you are interested in this rare but very attractive endangered breed. We need more Norfolk Grey breeders to make sure this breed doesn't almost disappear again.
 

[Rosemary]

I'd love some of these but until Hector goes to the big henhouse in the sky (and no, I'm NOT helping him get there), another cockerel would just be asking for trouble.

[moorlander]

Rosemary
Glad to see there are folk who value their cock birds. Wouldn't dream of wanting to displace Hector.
If you're interested in just hens, there may be a surplus but I am obviously hoping folk will want to breed on and siblings for one step would not harm.
Paul

[Rosemary]

I would be interested in breeding so until Hector departs this mortal coil, I'll just have to wait. He nearly departed yesterday when he had a bit go at me when I was raking up dead grass and moss in their pen - a close encounter with the rake persuaded him that I was best left to get on with it. He is handsome though.

[Fleecewife]

I could be interested once some of mine go broody.  I prefer to raise them under a hen - in fact I don't have an incubator.  I would be interested in the photos please and also - what is a typical weight for your strain of SG hens? I'm assuming they are not bantams

[moorlander]

Hi there.
My Scotties are standards - not bantams - don't have a clue as to weight. They are in their first year and so will still be gaining slightly. The size - cock bird is considerably larger than hens - he is on large side and hens just normal. Sorry can't be more specific but don't really have facililty for accurate weighing.

Cheers- Paul

[Fleecewife]

Hi Paul.  I ask because mine are 'utility' hens.  They are very small compared with the huge ones you see at shows, but much bigger than bantams.  They are about 2/3rds the size of a black rock when fully grown, but the cocks are not very much bigger.  I don't want to bring in any which are bigger than that - my stock came originally from Kintaline, where they had been developed for egg laying ability and they certainly lay    They are wonderfully feisty little things with amazing characters 

[moorlander]

Sounds like mine are similar. My Norfolks I would consider med-large (when they fully mature) and the SCotties are a little smaller. I would call them light and nifty, but certainly not Banties. They are laying at the rat of 5/6 each day- and don't care where they lay them!
Every good wish

Paul