Keeping Chickens

Keeping Chickens In Winter
As we’re now well into our first winter as chicken keepers, I thought I’d write about any difference between keeping chickens in winter to other seasons.
Well the first big difference is the mud / wet due to the rain or snow in the chicken run. Obvious I suppose, but the chicken run quickly can [...]

Keeping Chickens On A Budget seems to be a bit of a buzz at the moment - what with the re-printing of a war time favourite Keeping poultry and rabbits on scraps; due to second hand copies of the original ‘going like hot cakes’ on various online sites.
Plus the regular mention of the ‘current economic [...]

Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps
Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps according to the paper today was a ‘war time’ best selling handbook, that’s making a come back due to the ‘credit - crunch’.
The book was first published in 1941 as Nazi Germany was attempting to starve Britain into submission.
Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps [...]

Sorry I haven’t posted on Keeping Chickens for a while, you may have noticed on some of the pictures that Julia was pregnant and getting pretty close to ‘due date’.
We added another son to our family on 14th November and named him Jacob. Jacob is doing well and weighed in at 7lbs 11oz.
Would you believe, our [...]