Animals-and-Pets
Your Chickens
Broody Or Incubator?
Poultry keepers frequently debate the merits of hatching chicks with a broody hen or an incubator. Henkeeper ANNA TWITTO has tried both options and considers the pros and cons.
6 min |
March 2017
Your Chickens
Charlotte's Poultry
Charlotte Carnegie has built a thriving poultry business in Wiltshire, and has even featured on TV.
6 min |
March 2017
Your Chickens
Hens At The Double
Ben and cheryl tompsett have two thriving poultry businesses in kent. They talked to john wright.
6 min |
February 2017
Your Chickens
The House That Nat Built
Nathan Levick is a furniture designer – and a henkeeper. He used his professional skills to create his own chicken house…
2 min |
February 2017
Your Chickens
Hen Therapy
Keeping chickens can be good for your health! Emily Pask, from Cambridgeshire, is just one hen keeper who has benefited.
2 min |
April 2017
Your Chickens
Rehomings To Start
The work of the charity has been hit by the bird flu restrictions. But now things are easing in time for spring.
2 min |
April 2017
Your Chickens
The Good Eggs!
Pure breeds developed for egg laying, with Andy Cawthray.
2 min |
May 2017
Your Chickens
Sneaky Egg Layers
They should be treasured!
2 min |
May 2017
Your Chickens
Get Biosecure Bedding
Wood fibre bedding can aid in preventing red mite in poultry.
2 min |
May 2017
Your Chickens
Get The Feed Right
Advice from Lisa Mancell at Farmgate.
2 min |
May 2017
Your Chickens
Wonderful Wyandottes
Grant Brereton is one of the leading experts on Wyandottes. Here he extols the virtues of this beautiful breed
6 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
Holiday Hiccup
Things didn’t quite go according to plan when Michelle Dunn took a break from her chickens
2 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
A Time Of Turmoil
Charlotte has to downscale
3 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
Horses And Hens
This month, Jeremy Hobson talks with Joanne Southall-Campbell, a French-living ex-pat, keen showjumper, mounted archery enthusiast and avid chicken keeper
2 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
Fight The Mite
Red mite can be a nightmare for the poultry keeper. Grant Brereton looks at the problem, and our vet, Victoria Roberts, offers some solutions
7 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
They Enrich Our Lives
We talk to a henkeeper from Northern Ireland who just loves her ex-bats
2 min |
September 2017
Your Chickens
Going On Show
Florrie and her chicks are much admired…
3 min |
November 2017
Your Chickens
Going Up In The World
Martin’s birds have some new accommodation
2 min |
December 2017
Your Chickens
Reduce The Risks!
How can henkeepers help to keep their birds safe and minimise the risk of contracting and spreading disease? Grant Brereton spoke to our poultry vet, Victoria Roberts
6 min |
December 2017
Your Chickens
Are These Lice Dangerous?
Are These Lice Dangerous?
1 min |
December 2017
Your Chickens
Then There Were None...
The Mystery of the Phantom Egg Eater
2 min |
January 2018
Your Chickens
The Good Eggs!
The pure breeds developed for egg laying This month: the Australorp
2 min |
February 2018
Your Chickens
A Fabulous FED
Grant Brereton reports from the second big national poultry show of the year, The Federation Championship Show at Stafford
2 min |
March 2018
Your Chickens
Off To Market
The French love buying chickens at local markets.
2 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
Early Learning
How chickens adapt, despite lessons from early llife
2 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
Poultry Providers
Kim Stoddart explains the benefits of buying in stock from one of the bigger, national suppliers…
2 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
Drop In Egg Production
Drop In Egg Production
1 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
Ideal Broody Time
Ideal Broody Time
1 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
At Last! A New Hen House
Martin upgrades to a recycled plastic coop and run. But all does not go quite according to plan…
2 min |
April 2018
Your Chickens
Stop The Cull!
It is time to end male chick culling, says Jane Howorth, founder of the British Hen Welfare Trust
2 min |