Keeping Chickens

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 [...]

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 [...]

Chickens Home To Roost or ‘cock-a-doodle-don’t’… I posted the other day about a news article appearing in a Devon website, regarding keeping cockerels and the trouble it seemed to be causing between neighbours and the local council. This has now made national newspaper headlines in the Sunday Express and the blame has been ’laid’ firmly at the feet of the [...]

Keeping Cockerels may not be that easy for those of us living in the suburbs, after reading a post recently published on a newspaper website that covers the area of Axminster. We are surrounded by chicken keeping neighbours, so perhaps for us the problem wouldn’t be so bad; but some people seem to object to the [...]

Chicken Keeping Pensioner Threatened With Eviction, is a surprising tale of heavy handed action by a Gateshead housing authority. The 85 year old pensioner is question is a gentleman named Ronald Lewis; Mr Lewis has been keeping chickens in the back garden of his house. He also has three beehives and grows his own vegetables – so [...]