Sunday, 22 February 2015






Gold Laced Wyandotte Stag (young male).
When I was a kid & coming from a farming family it was rare we didn't go to the annual County agricultural show.  One of the delights for me was always the poultry tent.  The sheer variety in shape size & colour was as fascinating as a trip to an old fashioned sweet shop & the cacophony of poultry noise an atmosphere of its own.  My favourite breed was always the Gold Laced Wyandottes.  Eventually through buying & incubating hatching eggs I've owned a few of these birds, & this dandy was probably one of the best.  The Gold Laced was never a commercial breed for eggs or meat, purely bred for looks & show although pre battery hen days the white wyandotte was an important part of the British egg laying flock.  Finding a good laying strain now would be as easy as finding hens teeth or rocking horse shit.

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