Burcombe’s Poultry

Burcombe’s Poultry Welcome to Burcombe’s Poultry. We are a small family business based near Bath. Please send us a message for any enquiries.

We specialise in a large variety of top quality rare breed poultry, ducks, POL hybrids, guineafowl, emus, chicks & hatching eggs.

✨2025 Breeds list✨We are so excited to announce the full beautiful collection of poultry which we have managed to put to...
29/12/2024

✨2025 Breeds list✨
We are so excited to announce the full beautiful collection of poultry which we have managed to put together over this first year of being back in business.

We will have hatching eggs, chicks and point of lay available from all of the varieties listed below. However, we have already begun waiting lists for most of our varieties as point of lay and hatching eggs for 2025, so please contact us if you would also like to be added to our lists.

Large fowl:
🐓Salmon Faverolle
🐥Partridge Wyandotte
🐓Silver Pencilled Wyandotte
🐥Silver Laced Wyandotte
🐓Cream Legbar (blue eggs)
🐥Black copper Marans (dark brown eggs)
🐓Double laced Barnevelder
🐥Gold laced Orpington
🐓Lavender Orpington
🐥Jubilee Orpington
🐓Buff Orpington
🐥Welsummers

Bantam:
🐔Gold laced Wyandotte
🐣Silver laced Wyandotte
🐔Lavender Pekin
🐣Lemon cuckoo Pekin
🐔Chocolate Pekin
🐣Silver partridge pekin
🐔Black mottled Pekin
🐣Red/Buff mottled Pekin
🐔Silver Spangled Hamburg
🐣Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot
🐔White silkie
🐣Light Sussex
🐔Gold tops

Ducks:
🦆Cayuga
🐣White runner
🦆White call
🐣Abacot call
🦆Butterscotch call
🐣Saxony

Other birds:
🦤Guinea fowl
🦚Indian blue peafowl
🦖Emu

Please message us for more information or to place orders for our 2025 birds.

📍Based near Bath, BA1 8EQ.
📍Collections available from Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14.
🛻 Deliveries available at cost.
📬 Hatching eggs are able to be posted all over the UK, Republic of Ireland, and the rest of Europe.

Also available as point of lay from spring 2025 which we are taking orders for:

Hybrids:
🪻Bluebells
🪨Rhode rocks
⭐️Light Sussex stars
💫Silver Sussex stars
🥚 Speckeldies
🪶Columbian blacktails
✨White stars (white eggs)
🌟Mottled stars
🐣 Welsummer stars
☀️Rhode Island stars
🥈Silver duckwing rangers
🌟Amber stars
🐓Lavender stars
🧤Marigolds
🪺 Hybrid Legbar (blue eggs)
🫒Olives (olive egg layers)
☄️Comets (dark egg layers)

Pure breeds:
🐣 Pekin bantams in various colours
🐔 Polands in various colours
🐣 Silkies in various colours
🐔 Campines in several colours
🐣 Vorwerk (large)
🐔 Appenzellers in various colours
🐣 Wyandottes in various coloured (both bantam and large)
🐔 Araucanas in various colours (large)
❗️And more….

Merry Christmas!🎄🎅🛷 Our final Christmas post celebrates our stunning emus!We are currently well underway into the emu br...
25/12/2024

Merry Christmas!🎄🎅🛷
Our final Christmas post celebrates our stunning emus!
We are currently well underway into the emu breeding season, with eggs incubating cosily.
Emus are a fascinating species, native to Australia. They can run over 30mph and can live up to 35 years in captivity!
Did you know, male emus are the ones to sit on the eggs, for around 60 days! He will care for the chicks, sometimes without the help of the female.
They will often pair for the breeding season. However, astonishingly our adults have formed a trio!

Pictured looking festive is Emmy, one of our chicks hatch in March 2024!

Day 24: French Copper Black MaransThis breed originated in, yep you guessed it, France!Taking their name from the town o...
24/12/2024

Day 24: French Copper Black Marans
This breed originated in, yep you guessed it, France!
Taking their name from the town of Marans 🇫🇷, this breed was created from breeds such as the Coucou de Malines, Croad Langshan, Rennes, Faverolles, barred Rock, Brakel and Gatinaise.
By the 1920s, the copper black Marans had become one of the most highly valued breeds in France and was soon exported to other countries such as the UK and USA.
Their deep chocolate coloured eggs are one of their most prominent characteristics.

Day 23: Cream Legbar🪺The Legbar is a rare British auto-sexing breed.The breed was created in the twentieth century by Re...
23/12/2024

Day 23: Cream Legbar🪺
The Legbar is a rare British auto-sexing breed.
The breed was created in the twentieth century by Reginald Crundall Punnett and Michael Pease at Cambridge University.
They are a cross between American barred Plymouth Rock and brown Leghorns, which created the gold and silver varieties.
The cream variety was later created by Michael Pease, by crossing the gold and silver varieties with white Leghorn.
Their distinctive crest and beautiful blue eggs were introduced later when crossed with Araucanas!

Day 22: 🌟Frizzle Pekin bantam🌟A frizzle is a chicken with the curled feather gene 🧬 This gene was originally found in bo...
22/12/2024

Day 22: 🌟Frizzle Pekin bantam🌟
A frizzle is a chicken with the curled feather gene 🧬
This gene was originally found in both Cochin and Pekin and is still today mostly seen in bantams.
The gene is heterozygous (two different versions), so when breeding two frizzles together the chicks have a 50% chance of being frizzle like the parents.
However, there is also a 25% chance of having normal feathering and a 25% chance of becoming “over frizzled”, with feathers that are brittle and resemble pipe cleaners.
For this reason, it’s best to breed a frizzle with a normal feathered chicken, so avoid the risk of becoming “over frizzled”!

Day 21: Guineafowl 🦤Originating from West Africa, Guineafowl have been bred and hunted for food for centuries. They've ...
21/12/2024

Day 21: Guineafowl 🦤

Originating from West Africa, Guineafowl have been bred and hunted for food for centuries. They've been a part of human lives for a very long time, there are even drawings of them on the walls of pyramids.
It wasn’t until the 1500’s that they were introduced to Western Europe by the Portuguese, eventually becoming poplar here in the UK in Elizabethan times for their meat and rich eggs.

After centuries of breeding, they now come in many colours and are more likely kept as ornamental birds and also for the use of their characteristic alarm calls alerting and protecting other livestock from predators. 😍

Day 20: 🎄Gold Laced Wyandotte bantam🎄These beauties may be little, but they are a naturally hardy type! The gold laced v...
20/12/2024

Day 20: 🎄Gold Laced Wyandotte bantam🎄
These beauties may be little, but they are a naturally hardy type!
The gold laced variety was created by crossing partridge Cochin and gold spangled Hamburg males with silver laced Wyandotte females.

Day 19: ✨Buff Orpington✨The buff Orpington was the 3rd colour variety created, introduced in 1894, following the black t...
19/12/2024

Day 19: ✨Buff Orpington✨
The buff Orpington was the 3rd colour variety created, introduced in 1894, following the black then white!
Prior to the prolific hybrid hen, the Orpington was considered a capable layer, producing around 200 eggs per year! 🍳

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We now have some of our beautiful homebred pure breeds available 😍⭐️Please send us a message for more details and appoin...
19/12/2024

We now have some of our beautiful homebred pure breeds available 😍

⭐️Please send us a message for more details and appointments.

Breeds available include:
Large fowl:
🐓Buff Sussex
🐓Gold partridge Wyandotte (sold)
🐓Silver Pencilled Wyandotte (sold)
🐓Wheaton Maran (sold)
🐓Welsummer
🐓Jubilee Orpington (sold)
🐓Buff Orpington (sold)
And more 🤩

Also Bantams:
🐓Pekin (in several colours)
🐓Wyandottes (in several colours)
🐓Lakenvelder
🐓Cuckoo Maran
🐓Silver Spangled Hamburgs.

📍Based near Batheaston, Bath, BA1 8EQ.
📍Collection available from Chippenham, Wiltshire SN14.
🛻Deliveries available at cost.

⭐️Please send us a message for more details and appointments.📩

Day 18: Doubled Laced Barnevelder🔥This stunning breed originated in Holland and was first imported to the UK in 1921. Ot...
18/12/2024

Day 18: Doubled Laced Barnevelder🔥
This stunning breed originated in Holland and was first imported to the UK in 1921. Other than their obvious beauty, their brown eggs are one of their star attractions!

Day 17: Lemon Millefleur SablepootAlso known as Booted Bantam or Dutch Booted Bantam.These gorgeous true bantams have an...
17/12/2024

Day 17: Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot
Also known as Booted Bantam or Dutch Booted Bantam.
These gorgeous true bantams have an intricate history spreading over Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium!
Booted bantams are crossed with Barbu d’Anvers to create Barbu d’Uccles 😍

Day 16: Light Sussex bantam💫The Sussex is a very old breed, dating back to the late 1800s!The light Sussex was made from...
16/12/2024

Day 16: Light Sussex bantam💫
The Sussex is a very old breed, dating back to the late 1800s!
The light Sussex was made from crossing Brahma, Cochin and silver grey Dorking.
This group will serve a dual purpose come the breeding season.
We will of course be breeding this gorgeous group as a pure breed. However, crossing a light Sussex with a Silkie creates Gold-top hens, who will help us to incubate our Call duck eggs!

Day 15: Saxony duck 🦆 ⭐️New arrivals⭐️The Saxony duck is a German breed and lay between 80-100 eggs per year!We are so e...
15/12/2024

Day 15: Saxony duck 🦆
⭐️New arrivals⭐️
The Saxony duck is a German breed and lay between 80-100 eggs per year!
We are so excited to welcome these beautiful prize winning ducks to our breeding collection ready for next year.

Day 14: Lavender Orpington 😍Just when you think this breed couldn’t get any more beautiful, the Orpington treats us to t...
14/12/2024

Day 14: Lavender Orpington 😍
Just when you think this breed couldn’t get any more beautiful, the Orpington treats us to this delicate purple, creating the perfect contrast of colour in the back garden!
They have all the same great qualities as the other Orpington varieties, including a docile and kind nature 🐓❤️

Day 13: 🌟Silkie🌟Origin: Asia A very stylish and friendly breed! Silkies make great mothers and are often used to hatch e...
13/12/2024

Day 13: 🌟Silkie🌟
Origin: Asia
A very stylish and friendly breed! Silkies make great mothers and are often used to hatch eggs 🐣

Something a little different 😍Our first batch of emu eggs for this year is incubating nicely! We are so excited to hopef...
12/12/2024

Something a little different 😍
Our first batch of emu eggs for this year is incubating nicely!

We are so excited to hopefully have some adorable emu chicks hatching early in the new year 🥰
Keep an eye on our page for updates! 🤩

We are currently taking orders for our 2025 chicks, so please message us for more information. 📩

📍Based near Bath, BA1 8EQ.
📍and Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN14.
🛻Deliveries within the UK can be arranged.

Day 12: 🎄Silver Pencil Wyandotte🎄 We’re half way through our poultry Advent Calendar! 🗓️ Introducing another variety of ...
12/12/2024

Day 12: 🎄Silver Pencil Wyandotte🎄
We’re half way through our poultry Advent Calendar! 🗓️
Introducing another variety of our stunning Wyandottes (I think we may have a Wyandotte obsession)!
The silver pencilled came from crossing the partridge Wyandotte with dark Brahma!

Day 11: 🌟Silver Spangled Hamburg🌟The origin of the Hamburg is a bit of a mystery! What we do know is, the Hamburg is a s...
11/12/2024

Day 11: 🌟Silver Spangled Hamburg🌟
The origin of the Hamburg is a bit of a mystery!
What we do know is, the Hamburg is a stunning breed and a great layer that rarely goes broody.
In fact, not one of our Hamburg hens went broody during this breeding season and were the last hens to finish laying! 🥚

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Rodney Farm, Steway Lane
Bath
BA18EQ

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+447851671533

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✨Happy new year!✨ We just want to take a moment to thank all who have made this year possible for us! Starting up again came with its risks, but thankfully it paid off as this year has been amazing! We are so excited to see what 2025 has to offer and we’re looking forward to seeing familiar faces again and meeting new ones! Wishing everyone a very happy New Year, cheers!🥂 Jamie, Katherine, Ruby and Aurora 🐓

We hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day!🎄 #christmas #farming #chickens #farmlife #poultry #emu #bordercollie #farmdog #santahat #boxingday

We are super eggcited by our find this morning!🤩 Does anyone know what it it? 😆
We are super eggcited by our find this morning!🤩 Does anyone know what it it? 😆

We are super eggcited by our find this morning!🤩 Does anyone know what it is? 😆

How amazing is this! 😍 Have you ever seen an emu wing before?
How amazing is this! 😍 Have you ever seen an emu wing before?

How amazing is this! 😍 Have you ever seen an emu wing before?

This sound could be a form of therapy 🥹❤️

When everyone is dreading winter, but for us it means baby emu time 🥹❄️
When everyone is dreading winter, but for us it means baby emu time 🥹❄️

As the peafowl breeding season comes to end, so do the beautiful displays put on by our boys 🦚 Already looking forward to seeing it all again next year 😍

Bruce, Sheila and Minnie loving their emu breakfast on a peaceful summer morning ☀️😍🦖

How mornings feel when you have no responsibilities 😂

Lots of beautiful birds available here at Burcombe’s Poultry! 🐓😍 Breeds currently available include: Pure breeds: 🐔 Appenzellers (Silver spangled, Gold spangeld, Chamois, Black, Bule) 🐔 Silkies (White, Black, Blue, Lavender, Cuckoo, Buff, Red, Silver, Splash, Gold) 🐔 Lavender Pekin Bantams 🐔 Bearded Polands (Gold laced, Citron laced, Silver laced, Chamois) 🐔 Vorwerk We have some gorgeous hybrids also available 🐓 📍Our farm is based near Bath. BA1 8EQ for viewing and collection. 📍Collection also available from Chippenham, Wiltshire. 🛻 Delivery also available Please message for more details.

An amazing first day at the @maddys_farm open day! Come and see our display of stunning rare breed chickens and our emu chicks! We also have available: 🐔 Point of lay hybrid pullets 🐔 Silkies 🐣 Hatching eggs 🌽 Poultry equipment Hope to see you all tomorrow (Sunday 19th) 🌞🐣

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