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Not sure how to spell it, but we have cou nou, which are brown with bare necks and also White Sussex. We have 5 hens and get 4 eggs on average daily, sometimes 5 and occasionaly only 3. Ours are 1.5 years old now and started laying when they were about 5\6 months. We are in the Gironde\Lot border, so weather gets hot here with us.
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We've got a mish mash of all sorts now. We bought some fluffly feet types at the Tarbes market a while ago and with a bit of interbreeding along the way we have lots of mongrels.

Have a look at what the neighbours have and ask where they got theirs. The ones with no feathers on the neck are usually for eating.
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We've got brown chickens with no feathers on their necks, I thought there was something wrong with them at first. We get lovely large eggs sometimes with double yolks.

We got ours at the local market - we won't be eating them.
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Hakunamatata

If you ever go to Carcassonne market on a saturday there is a lady there who sells her eggs , some times in the spring/summer I have seen her sell a few birds, I have never asked if they are eaters or layers but if you ask her she might have some for sale

Her eggs are very tasty
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We've tried different places. There used to be several markets nearby which sold them, but most of them have stopped, for some reason.

Now we buy them from a neighbouring farm. They are the brown bare-necks, which others have mentioned. And she often adds a few others, such as a bonny little bantam cockerel, and his tiny black mate. And some silvery speckled ones.

We do eat the brown ones.

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Everyone around here is helpful when off-loading chicks. When Mr Fox comes visiting we all lose one or two, but there are always neighbours willing to part with chicks.

As an aside, we had a clutch of 11 chicks hatch, 9 were cocks (how unlucky was that!). Bedlam rained for a while until we did the deed and fed the freezer.
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