Keeping Chickens

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 rearing [...]

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 continues to support and [...]

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 success of [...]

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 ‘noise’ [...]