Keeping Chickens

Buy Organic Chicken Feed
We’ve been looking for an easy place to buy organic chicken feed, the problem being is that there doesn’t seem to be many organic chicken feed suppliers in our area.
We can get hold of normal layers pellets and mash fairly easily locally, but organic chicken feed would be much more in keeping [...]

Baby Chicks
Well the baby chicks have arrived!
After much searching we eventually found some baby ceamy legbar chicks back at our local breeder at Southmead Poultry, which is incidentally where our other girls have come from.
Tracy at Southmead Poultry has put up with me phoning on a almost weekly basis, asking whether she had any baby Creamy [...]

New Chicken Coop
It definitely feels like ’spring’!
Julia and the boys want more chickens to add to the flock, so in preparation, we’ve bought a new chicken coop.
We went for another self assembly chicken coop from this ebay seller - Garden & Pets. The name of the coop we bought was Large Chicken Poultry Hen Coop House [...]

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) & Burford [...]

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 battery hen.
Every year [...]

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 a feeding [...]

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 of news, [...]

Chicken Coop & Run Before Roof Went On

Building Chicken Coops doesn’t have to be a DIY nightmare! This building chicken coops article is inspired by the fantastic information in the Build A Chicken Coop book.
There is once again a huge interest in keeping chickens and the Build A Chicken Coop book provides detailed step by [...]

Chicken Mash

Chicken mash, layers mash, poultry mash… are ‘tasty’ chicken ‘mash’ type feeds that you can make up at home, using left over kitchen vegetable scraps, corn, pellets and bread - not to be confused with chicken & mash ‘home cooking’ recipes for humans!
The only problem with making chicken mash at home; is that if you have [...]

Chickens In The Snow
It snowed just enough to cover the floor a little and leave footprints, so I just couldn’t resist taking a photograph of our chicken’s foot prints in the snow.
I imagine this is the first snow that the chickens have seen, and they seemed happy enough scratching around in the snow - although [...]