These are old breeds that Ruth Tieskötter keeps on her farm. In contrast to highly bred laying hens, they can actually do one thing: lay colorful eggs. This is simply due to color pigments in the blood of the animals. During degradation, they are bound in the lime shell.
Depending on the breed, chocolate brown, light green, light blue or olive green eggs end up in the nest. “Well done, all of you!“, the farmer’s wife praises her rather unusual animals.
Love for colorful agriculture
The animals are very comfortable here. High bred turbo hens produce 300 eggs a year. Old breeds lay just 200. Profitability is then difficult: “But I appreciate living the colorful agriculture. Chickens can also be chickens and live their lives here.” That’s why there are not only the “working chickens” around the chicken mobile.
The “pensioners” live in the enclosure next door and the “rebels” live in a third meadow: “These are the outcasts, hackfight losers, the Outlaws. They also want to live and hang around the farm most of the time.“Everybody lays eggs – more or less.
Tenth generation farm
The family started in Telgte in 1641. Ruth Tieskötter and her brother took over the farm from their parents. After the trained bookseller, nature educator and art historian had been in Hamburg for ten years, she felt “sick for home”. Father Heinrich is reassured: “What does that mean to us? We can sit back now. Ruth is doing great. Everything ecological.“
A motley yard
In addition to the chickens, Telgte is also very colorful with old pedigree animals: saddle pigs, woolly pigs, Wensleydale sheep – all part-time. It doesn’t drop more than that. Lots of praise though. Especially for the naturally colored eggs, says the passionate farmer: “Children ask me if I dye the eggs. But the chickens do that themselves.In this respect, Easter is somehow every day at the Tieskötter farm in Telgte.
We have this topic on April 14, 2022 on WDR television in the local time Muensterland reported at 7:30 p.m.
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