Denise: These ‘new kids on the block’ are three of fourteen Welsumer chicks that hatched yesterday from an incubator.  They’re good healthy chicks, doing very well, and in six months or so about half of them (ah yes, but which half!) will be laying the big brown and very tasty eggs that some of you buy for your breakfasts and baking – or buy to hatch out for your own flocks.

Today, on our croft in Eriskay, the Welsumers have been making the most of the glorious late winter sunshine, foraging on the seashore for shrimps, sand-hoppers, and grubs, and together with the extensive natural grassland, thats what makes the eggs so special.