Can you eat the eggs of peahens?

How much would one expect to pay for a pair of say, Indian Blues?

Trying to work out sensible limits to my bidding on certain lots for tomorrows rare breed sale.

Yes, you can eat their eggs. Also you can blow them and sell the shells to craft workers. They do all sorts of clever things with them. I have no idea about prices but do know that if you ask around you can sometimes get free poultry from people who are giving up. The RSPCA shelter sometimes has lists.

Oooh! Sounds good! I found a poultry forum and seems that there are heaps of people from up here going as well as across Scotland. So excited.
Been doing my homework with the catalogue and trying to decide what to go for. I'm trying to limit myself to 3 lots, mainly because thats how many boxes I can fit into my little clio!

I bet that you come back with more! I can feel a Scots Dumpy moment coming on!

So what new chooks do you own now Malone?

Well, had a great day out at the mart last saturday and came home with a trio of partridge silkies, a pair of golden silkies, a single hamburg bantam hen and a pair of 2006 fawn and white indian runner ducks. And I stuck a duck egg into the incubator last night so, 28 days time hopefully I should be hearing the patter of tiny webbed feet

oh I love chooks...used to keep barnevelders and some former battery hens...the latter were completely bald when they arrived but soon put on weight and feathers and had the time of their lives hoofing round the paddock in front of my cottage..Ilove the way they seem to hook up their bloomers and run whenever I called them for breakfast of supper..

All my chickens were very free range they had the entire farm to mooch over and made themselves very much at home....the Barnevelders looked lovely but were not the best layers but the x battery hens laid for England..they were my favourites...and soon got into the rountine... Sadly a dog got the lot...I knew it was a dog because the owners cleared up...a fox would have killed and left the carcasses...they only take one maybe two but I lost 14 and a cockerel...somehow I never got over that...I still miss them to this day

No more chooks now...but we have them on the family farm so get all our eggs from there...you cant beat a fresh egg and not the muck from TESCO which is at least 6 weeks old and they call it fresh

There is nothing like a really fresh newly laid egg. That and some home made bread! Yum! Better than any top resturant. What a sad thing to lose all of your hens A.U.K. Perhaps they were just stolen rather than killed? The new arrivals sound lovely Malone. Will you post some more pics please? Chooks need a better profile in this world of fast food and battery animals.

I would post more pictures if my camera wasnt so out of date and pretty well broken! Will post some when I fix the problem, either that or a take some truly terrible ones with my camera, or take them with a good old fashioned on and get the photos developed onto a CD!