By Emma Davies

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Robert, who now has 15 laying hens, said he started selling eggs after he got his first two hens.

He said: “I’ve built my way up, saved all the profit and put it back into the business.”

He said he asked for the two hens because that was all he wanted for his birthday, adding: “I always had a passion for farming and I always wanted to live on a farm and work on a farm.”

Robert, who has created his own brand and business name – Robert’s Happy Hens – Farm Fresh Eggs – said he liked being outside and being around animals.

“I used to sell half a dozen a week,” he said. “Now I sell around 10 dozen a week. The money that I earn pays for the feed.”

The teenager, who has previously met Kaleb Cooper, described the celebrity farmer as “an amazing person and a great inspiration for young farmers”.