Bridget’s Barn

Bridget’s Barn

Hi!

We are small scale hobby breeders and keepers of Rare Breed poultry, Blue, Olive and Green Eggers.Based in North Cornwall, our flock keep our days ‘Sunny Side Up’!Our page is for fun and for sharing our poultry passion!

13/08/2024

Tuesday Chickeny Thing #10

How cute is this t-shirt?
Just received this in the post from Vinted for my eggstremely scrummy Grandson.

I want one!!

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 06/08/2024

Tuesday Chickeny Thing #9

Chicken Chocolate!!!!!!

Made with cornflakes so ok for breakfast, right?😋

04/08/2024

Carnival fun!

What a giggle we all had yesterday at St Teath Carnival 😁.

So many brilliant entries and really chuffed with a 3rd place rosette for Bridget's Barn!

Thank you so much Team BB Anna Sanders, Jake Masters, Emma Davoust-Zangari and of course our little chick Archie 😋.

31/07/2024

Blue Copper Marans going into lockdown 🤗

Always love at least one new breed to hatch a year.

Thanks Adrian Payne & Tanya Golding !

31/07/2024

Feeling warm and feathery!! I have loved observing the 'feathery unlock' in Raine 🐣🐥🧡💛. Well done Raine 😍.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/At8MgEeKXjihsjQh/

30/07/2024

Tuesday Chickeny Thing #8

I love a card and this has to be the most perfect of them all! Made by my talented and gorgeous friend Susi at Coppertop Cards 🥰.

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 29/07/2024

How cute are this bunch?

This is the second hatch for Bridget's Barn courtesy of Raine Sian Hewett ! Fantastic hatch rate and 13 out of 18 were girls! They've definitely got the magic touch and were couriered back to Bridget's Barn in style 🥰.

Lovely selection of Olive Eggers, Cream Legbars and Gingernut Rangers (Columbian Blacktails).

All reserved and off to their new 🏠.

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 23/07/2024

Tuesday Chickeny Thing #7

Well it's been a while since we've done one of these!

Found this gem at Boscastle Farm Shop created by a Cornish company from Bude CGB Giftware .
And yes, you are all 'impeckable'! 😘

18/07/2024

Yep!

10/07/2024

Launceston's next rehoming day is 31st August!

Hop, skip and jump all the way to reserve your lovely hens and give them their best new lives - visit: www.freshstartforhens.co.uk

Looking forward to seeing lots of hens beginning their new lives.

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 09/07/2024

I spy a chicken!

Everywhere I go my eyes get drawn to them! Can anyone else relate?

Just had a lovely weekend including a fantastic day at the Hampton Court Flower Festival and
spotted this gorgeous girl in the Arthritis Action allotment show garden 🥰.

Photos from The Barbara Saga - the story of the autism therapy chicken's post 30/06/2024
Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 29/06/2024

Just look at these cute Silkie boys!

Splash and Earl are looking for their forever homes.

Splash is a grey toned partridge silkie with teal wing feathers.

Earl is a buff and white colouring.

They are 16 weeks old and really well handled.

Please PM me for more details. They have been raised by good friends of ours so I can put you in contact.

Based St Teath, PL30 3

How to create a chicken-friendly garden | British Hen Welfare Trust 19/06/2024

For all of you that love gardens and chickens but know how tricky it can be to combine the two, there's some great advice in here!🌱

How to create a chicken-friendly garden | British Hen Welfare Trust Just like many people feel a house isn’t a home without a cat or a dog, we are of the mind that no garden is complete without a flock of chickens to share it with.

18/06/2024

Anyone looking to rehome some chooks?

Yippeeee! Saturday 20th July is the next marvellous rehoming day! If you would like to rehome some gorgeous hens and give them their best summer yet, please hop over to www.freshstartforhens.co.uk to reserve your girls.

And of course.. please do share this post and spread the word, so we can give as many lovely hens their Fresh Start and new lives, as soon as possible!!!

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 16/06/2024

Happy Feathery Father's Day 🩵💙
Meet the chaps that produce our chicks!🐓🐣🐥

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 11/06/2024

Gingernut Ranger hatching eggs now available!

These are a sex-linked cross between a Rhode Island Red cockerel and Light Sussex hens. You can identify the boys and girls by their feather colour as day old chicks (as shown below).

Our cockerel Rick makes up a quartet with Lori, Lydia and Lucianna with good fertility rates.

No pictures of hens yet as this is a new poultry project for us this year! However if you Google Gingernut Rangers, Calder Rangers, Blacktails or Columbian Blacktails they are all the same hybrid!

P.S. Are any of you lovely lot fans of the T.V. series influencing this breeding group's names?

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 10/06/2024

Might just happen to have a few hatching eggs fall in my basket at Royal Cornwall Show ! So fantastic to have the poultry tent up and running again after Avian Influenza restrictions for the last few years. 🎪🐓🐥

I hatched Australorps from this brilliant breeder a few years ago so I'm very excited to have another go.

7 eggs now in the trusted Brinsea Products Ltd Mini Advance and 4 under Wendy, a Welsummer, and one of my numerous broody hens.

Fingers and wings crossed!🙂

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 05/06/2024

😍UPDATE: ALL 4 REHOMED 😍
Silkie chicks x4 looking for a new home 🐥🐥🐥🐥
3 days old, unsexed.
Based St Teath, PL303
PM me please for details

30/05/2024

Raine is helping out Bridget’s Barn with some hatching! If anyone needs any chicks let us know! 🐣💕🐣

20/05/2024

All the colours of Spring are in full swing all around us at the moment aren't they? 🌱

We can now offer a lovely Spring-like pallette of hatching eggs including blues, peaches, olives, browns and whites. Just so pretty! 🪺🐣.

For collection or postage.

Based St Teath PL30 3.

20/05/2024

First French Copper Marans chicks of the season. Super floofy and so cute! 🐣🐣🐣

Fingers crossed for some girls as a number already reserved as Point of Lay 🤞. Their dark chocolate, brown eggs are a perfect addition to a yummy palette of egg colours 🥰.

19/05/2024

Awwww Shirley, your first baby ever!
Well done Mumma 🥰

Chicken Embryo Development 18/05/2024

How cool is this? 🤩
A time lapse animation of chick development!
Brilliant for teachers, home schoolers and chook geeks like myself 🤓

Chicken Embryo Development Animation of the 21 day development of a chicken embryo in the egg.Created by AXS Biomedical Animation Studio Inc. http://axs3d.com/ Music by Zach Kellum© 20...

16/05/2024

We are announcing a new grant for laying hen and pullet keepers in England 🐔

Keepers will be able to apply for funding for two types of projects that will help them improve the health, welfare, and productivity of their flocks.

Read more here ⬇️
https://defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2024/05/15/introducing-laying-hen-housing-for-health-and-welfare-grants/

13/05/2024

A bit peckish!

These fluffballs were ready to come out of the incubator and have their first taste of chick crumb. Lots of happy, busy cheeping!

Crested Cream Legbars, Marsbars and my first Gingernut Rangers. A lovely selection of auto-sexing and sex-linked chicks.

Hatching eggs are available just PM me for more info 🙂

07/05/2024

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07/05/2024

A Birthday Bantam egg from Berry!🥳
Our lovely Grandson is 1 today and loves eggy bread! Just off to deliver a super fresh lunch to the birthday boy 😍😋

Photos from Bridget’s Barn's post 25/04/2024

UPDATE: ALL REHOMED

Silkies and female Cream Legbars all fluffed up and ready to go 😊.

Based St Teath, PL303

PM me please

Videos (show all)

Carnival fun!What a giggle we all had yesterday at St Teath Carnival 😁.So many brilliant entries and really chuffed with...
A bit peckish!These fluffballs were ready to come out of the incubator and have their first taste of chick crumb.     Lo...
UPDATE: ALL REHOMED 💖Silkies (unsexed) and female Cream Legbar chicks available.Just hatched (and super cute of course!)...
First egg unzipping from this hatch and it's a Silkie!Unzipping anticlockwise looking at the round end/air sac in a text...
Popcorn's pride and joy!6 gorgeous chicks arrived on Good Friday and she's now let me have a peek!
Thought the girls' 'egg song' sounded a tad different today!What a beauty 🐓
Such busy bees!We had a fantastic hatch of these Crested Cream Legbars and a single White Leghorn.   These will fulfill ...
Well  it looks like Pilau the Pilkie has been keeping up with my posts!She's got her broody on for some of the surplus h...
Happy Mother's day all!💐Popcorn our Pilkie is in full Mummy mode!My idea of heaven:  in a warm bed all day, being fed an...
Watch me swinging my wattles!St Teath PL303
Tuesday Chickeny thing No.6.Look at this gorgeous find!Now my favourite mug for my morning tea.Thankyou Morrisons!

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