April 25, 2014
The Good Life – Grow Your Own Vegetables
What could be better than going out into your garden and harvesting fresh vegetables to cook for your supper?
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Country Smallholding
April 25, 2014
Toxins and poisons that are dangerous to poultry
Poultry are affected by many toxins and poisons. Prevention is, as always, best as there are few antidotes available. Keeping birds away from potential toxic materials is sensible, but better still not to use anything…
April 25, 2014
Getting Started with an Allotment
April 25, 2014
Broody, or what?
I have four hens that live together in my garden. One of the bantams will do anything to find a particular plastic box and sit in it for hours on end. We presume she’s broody…
April 25, 2014
The Good Life – Tools and Equipment
Smallholders know you can get a huge amount done with some fairly basic equipment. Your trusty set of garden tools and your wheelbarrow will, of course, come in for some heavy use as you dig…
April 25, 2014
Chickens: dealing with the problem of bullying
Q - I had five Sussex Stars and two ISA Browns that I put together on the same day at the start of May. All was well until August, when one afternoon I let them…
April 25, 2014
The Good Life – Keeping Poultry
Keeping chickens is often the first step on the road to ‘the good life’
April 25, 2014
Age of slaughter for cattle
Q- I have heard that, due to BSE, cattle must be slaughtered by 36 months old. Does this apply to breeding animals as well, or is it possible to keep them longer and slaughter them…
April 25, 2014
Quandry about hatching Khaki Campbell eggs
Q- We have a (young) sitting Khaki Campbell, and a big rat problem. We’d really like to pinch the eggs to incubate at home (in our new secondhand Polyhatch incubator), but don’t know how long…
April 25, 2014
Advice on keeping quail
My family and I wish to keep quail. We’ve got a rabbit hutch which fits over a one metre square run and wondered whether that would be suitable (after a thorough clean, disinfect and dry)…
April 25, 2014
Goats milk and antibiotics
Q - Could anyone tell me how long I have to wait after a goat has had antibiotics before we can drink the milk again?
