April 2, 2015
HOT livestock
Debbie Kingsley meets some of the entrepreneurial pioneers developing high value livestock in Britain
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April 2, 2015
The collector
Terry Beebe talks to one of Britain’s leading collectors of poultry memorabilia
March 12, 2015
Fly fishing and chicken keeping go hand-in-hand
Jeremy Hobson meets a man who combines an interest in cicken keeping with another hobby - fly fishing! Rob Norris, from Hampshire, uses discarded feathers to make artificial flies
March 12, 2015
Ex-battery hens stole my heart
Reader Claire Hodder from Cornwall conveys the joy of keeping a flock of ex-battery birds
March 12, 2015
Ask our experts: Pecking, egg colour and more
Tips for chicken keepers by chicken keepers; why eggs can lose their colour, what to do if you’re concerned about pecking and ex-battery hens laying eggs
March 10, 2015
Extracting a boar’s tusk
Extracting a boar’s tusk with a hacksaw? Are you serious? Yes, says smallholder Andrew Rock...
February 24, 2015
Which sheep? A breed ideal for the moor
Which breed is ideal for the moor? Which won’t cause damage to trees? Tim Tyne looks at various scenarios and recommends breeds to suit
February 23, 2015
Electric netting solutions
Meriel Younger from www.electricfencing.co.uk answers the most common question asked when setting up an electric poultry netting system.
February 23, 2015
Get happy hens – and eggs to die for
Feeding advice from Philip Lee-Woolf of Legbars of Broadway
February 23, 2015
Good hatching with HEKA
HEKA Incubators first arrived in the UK in 2013. Since then they have sold a wide range of incubators to poultry breeders across the UK, from small starter incubators up to large commercial machines.
February 20, 2015
Lincolnshire smallholder shares his passion
Andrew O’Shea has only been smallholding since 2011, but he’s already packed more than most into those few years. Debbie Kingsley checked out what’s been happening on his Lincolnshire holding
