April 25, 2014
Why keep livestock?
Alan Beat looks at the pros and cons of keeping animals on a smallholding.
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Country Smallholding
April 25, 2014
Portable and temporary buildings
Tim Tyne talks about the uses of portable and temporary buildings on smallholdings
April 25, 2014
Choosing the right livestock
Advice for smallholders, from Adam Henson
April 25, 2014
Why would hens open their eggs?
Q- Why would hens open their eggs? I read that hens may open eggs they are sitting on for hatching before the due time. Why would they do this?Ellen Cooper, via email
April 25, 2014
Safe eggs?
I wonder if you can help me please – I’ve three bantam chicks, living with their mother and two other hens in an Eglu. We leave out chick crumbs for the chicks and layers’ pellets…
April 25, 2014
Scandal of our allotments
In the second feature in her series on allotments, KATIE BEAT looks at their history, and at the growing threat to allotments, despite their supposed legal protection. She argues that their wholesale loss has become…
April 25, 2014
Magpies pecking pigs
Q - I have three mini pot-bellied pigs, and local magpies have learnt to sit on their backs and peck away at the flesh, creating large wounds. Do you have any suggestions on how to…
April 25, 2014
Which predator?
I’m having a problem with my Pekins and mixed race small chickens and some cockerels who live in a shed at night. There don’t seem to be any holes for rats to enter, but every…
April 25, 2014
Why do hens crowd into just one nest box?
Why do all my hens try to crowd into one nest box even though I have provided four for my six hens? Keith Maslem, by email
April 15, 2014
OUR MAY ISSUE IS OUT NOW!
The latest issue of Your Chickens is on sale in the shops today
April 14, 2014
£300 VERM-X GIVEAWAY!
The great Verm-x giveaway
