This month, Jeremy Hobson talks with Joanne Southall-Campbell, a French-living ex-pat, keen showjumper, mounted archery enthusiast and avid chicken keeper
How did you first become interested in chicken-keeping?
About five years ago, I bought six ex-battery hens to give some company to a horse who needed rest after an injury. I thought that at two euros each, these birds must be good value and would help prolong their lives… and, if it all went wrong, it wouldn’t be too expensive a mistake! My first ‘chicken house’ was cobbled together in a polytunnel, using whatever pallets and baler-twine there was laying around and yet, amazingly, these ladies laid way beyond expectations… and the chicken keeping bug had well and truly bitten!
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Your Chickens.
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