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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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New Chicken Coop
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...
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Baby Chicks
Baby Chicks Well the baby chicks have arrived! Baby Chicks After much searching we eventually found some baby cream legbar chicks back at our local breeder at Southmead Poultry, which is incidentally...
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Buy Organic Chicken Feed
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. Organic...
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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! Cream...
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Blue Eggs
Blue Eggs Blue eggs… We’ve got blue eggs! It seems we only just posted on introducing our Cream Legbars to the ‘big girls’ cage and now we’ve got blue eggs. It’s been a couple of days, and we’ve had at...
View ArticleKeeping Chickens In The Back Garden
Keeping Chickens In The Back Garden We’ve been keeping chickens in the back garden for just over three years now. So we thought we’d stop and reflect on what we’ve learnt along the way. Our ‘keeping...
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