Small-scale chicken keeping goes through regular bouts of increased popularity, depending on media coverage of issues that catch the public eye: ‘living the good life’, animal welfare, the cost of food, ‘downsizing’, the ‘cuteness’ factor and more. We’ve seen this several times in the past eight years and are experiencing a fresh resurgence of interest [...]
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Tag Archives: Poultry
Sparrowhawk hangs about
9 November, 2011
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I locked the chickens up at 4.30pm. All were fine and there were no visitors in the main run or the cockerel runs. I went back out at 6.30pm to feed the pigs, but stopped when Harvey, our Border Terrier, ran to the chicken runs baying madly. When I investigated, I found a male sparrowhawk [...]
Read more ‘Look! Down there!’
5 October, 2011
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To the dismay of the hens, Harvey decided to wander into the bottom of the main chicken house while I was attempting to persuade them to come in for the night.
Read more Joining the flock
28 September, 2011
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I had hoped to get a decent photograph of our young Scots Grey pullets and cockerels joining the main flock today. However, they took one look at the camera and bolted into the darkest corner of the big poultry run where they clustered into a shivering huddle. The photo, above, was the best image I [...]
Read more What price welfare?
1 September, 2011
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Once again British farmers will be squeezed as Britain implements tighter welfare standards while other countries fail to do so. UK farmers, who are on course to comply with EU-imposed welfare improvements, fear cheap imports from countries where the directive is ignored. Hundreds of poultry farmers across Europe with millions of egg-laying hens are expected [...]
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