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How The Chicken Conquered The World
How The Chicken Conquered The World How The Chicken Conquered The World is a great article posted on Smithsonian Mag the other day. Basically it gives a three page history of keeping chickens and how the chicken as we know and love it evolved and helped shape history. How The Chicken Conquered The World
Posted: May 28th, 2012 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Cream Legbars
Cream Legbars Well our cream legbars chicks have grown and are now I suppose really classed as cream legbar pullets! All we’re waiting for now is the first appearance of ‘blue’ pullet eggs! We have managed to ‘keep’ all of the cream legbar chicks that we had as ‘day olds’ (as detailed on the keeping [...]
Posted: September 3rd, 2010 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Battery Hen Song – Walking In Circles – Interview With Phillip Lee Woolf
Battery Hen Song – Walking In Circles An interview with Phillip Lee-Woolf who wrote the sad song about the life of a battery hen – Walking In Circles. Phillip Lee Woolf breeds rare breed chickens, and he has kept hens since childhood. In 2004 Philip started the Legbars of Broadway business breeding Cotswold Legbars (blue eggs) [...]
Posted: March 19th, 2010 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Walking In Circles – A Song About The Sad Life Of A Battery Hen
Walking In Circles – Battery Hen Song I’ve just stumbled across Walking In Circles whilst researching a chicken keeping idea… Folks, you’ve got to go and check out Walking In Circles - A Song About The Sad Life Of A Battery Hen. This beautiful, but sad song tells the true story about the hellish life of a [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2010 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Chickens Kill Fox!
Chickens Kill Fox… A few weeks back most of the national newspapers in the UK ran a story about three hens and a cockerel named Duke, who’d managed to kill a fox who’d ’broken’ into their hen house during the night. The fox it appears had been pecked to death after being dealt a ‘stunning’ blow by [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2010 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Chicken Keeping Update
Due to pressures of work, family and all the usual stuff we haven’t updated Keeping Chickens for a while. Apologies for this… We’ve got a few posts and items to go on over the next few days and we also hope to add a few extra bits and pieces to the Keeping Chickens site. There’s loads [...]
Posted: March 16th, 2010 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Keeping Poultry And Rabbits On Scraps
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 [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2008 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Keeping Chickens Update
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 [...]
Posted: December 6th, 2008 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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1000 Chicken Coops Sold Every Week In The UK
1000 Chicken Coops Sold Every Week In The UK was printed in the Mail on Sunday on 31/08/08. Did anyone else read this chicken keeping article? The article is here if you missed it. The chicken keeping article spreads over two pages in the Mail on Sunday and states that thousands of city dwellers are [...]
Posted: September 1st, 2008 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens.
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Axminster Chicken Keeping Saga – Hugh Responds!
Axminster Chicken Keeping Saga – Hugh Responds! Over the last few days I’ve posted on the chicken keepers in Axminster, who seem to be hitting the headlines in both local and national newspapers. Check Cock-A-Doodle-Don’t and Keeping Cockerels for the stories. Anyway, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s company (River Cottage) have responded with the following comment; “River Cottage [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Chicken Keeping News, Keeping Chickens, Keeping Cockerels.
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