March 3, 2011
Best floor covering for hen house
Can you advise me on the best kind of covering for the floor of my chicken shed, I have been told that shavings or sawdust are the best things to use, is this correct?
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Poultry
February 23, 2011
My three Lemon Millefluer Sablepoot bantams
Teresa Benham tells us about her Lemon Millefleur Sablepoot bantams that she keeps at her home in Sutton-in-Ashfield
February 23, 2011
OLD ENGLISH GAME BANTAMS ARE THE BEST
We live in a built-up area in Cottingham, East Yorkshire, and have a small back garden which is home to five cute Old English Game Bantams. They wander around our enclosed plot lifting their legs…
February 23, 2011
My ex Battery hens
Rescuing ex-battery hens was the best thing Kirsty Macleod has ever done Around a year ago, I decided to bring home five scrawny hens, much to my mother’s dismay. They needed ‘help’ (in the form…
February 23, 2011
Hen Party
Stephanie Holmes holds parties to show people about henkeeping
February 9, 2011
Are there quiet cockerels?
I have three chickens – a Light Sussex and two Bluebell hens – and it is great to get fresh eggs and I also get a lot of pleasure just watching them wander about my…
February 9, 2011
I really want chickens… but I only have a small garden
I really want some chickens, as many of my friends already have birds; the problem is, I have a very small garden so I am wondering what kind of chicken will be OK in a…
February 9, 2011
Puppy love
You’d be forgiven for thinking that chickens and dogs were not natural bed fellows. But a one-year-old hen that thinks it’s a dog has adopted a litter of puppies, much to the bemusement of their…
February 9, 2011
The art of hen keeping
This lovely painting of hens is by celebrated artist Mary Ann Rogers. The painting, ‘Woodlanders’, was inspired by Mary’s own flock which is kept in a woody patch near her studio in Northumberland.
February 9, 2011
The Complete Encylopedia of Chickens
By Ester Verhoef and Aad Rijs: originally published by Rebo International in 2003
February 9, 2011
Celebrity chicken keeper
Our intrepid reporter talks chickens with TV presenter Philippa Forrester
