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A very warm welcome to poultrykeeper.com. This is a hobby site run by a small group of poultry enthusiasts. Here you will find over 325 articles and some useful resources on hatching eggs, keeping chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl and other poultry together with a poultry forum to ask questions. Our breeds pictures are an ongoing project.
If you have any photos we can use in our Chicken Breeds Pictures area we would be grateful.
Please help us raise £250 this year by donating just £2 to The Battery Hen Welfare Trust, - our chosen charity for 2009. We've got a long way to go to meet our target... :-( Just click on donate on the Justgiving widget on the right hand side of the homepage to go through to the Justgiving website. Thank you.
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Photos of The Domestic Waterfowl Club Show 08-11-09 |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Friday, 13 November 2009 13:17 |
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The Poultry Showing Season is well underway. The Domestic Waterfowl Club Show took place on 8th November 2009 at Stoneleigh, Coventry this year. Poultry Photographer Rupert Stephenson took some photos for us for us to share with you.
I have contacted the DWC and hope we can get permission to publish the full list of their results from their show here soon.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 14 November 2009 07:12 |
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Inspecting a Chicken for Good Health |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 19:35 |
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It is important to learn how to inspect a chicken properly to assess it for good health. Not only is this important when buying chickens that you are purchasing good, healthy stock but good husbandary involves checking your birds regularly for the first signs of problems so that they can be nipped in the bud.
Experienced poultry keepers develop a sixth sense for problems and a quick glance at the way their birds are behaving can tell them a lot but nothing beats a good inspection and examining every bird in the flock individually is the best way to keep on top of numerous problems. The following diagram gives a few pointers of what to look out for:
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 03 November 2009 20:57 |
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The Hannover 2009 Poultry Show. |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:15 |
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The 128th Junggeflugelschau Poultry Show was held on the 17th-18th October this year in Hannover, Germany. The Germans certainly know how to put on a good show and the two days that I attended still didn't seem long enough to look at and photograph everything I was interested in which was pretty much all of the poultry and waterfowl on display! The Germans organise their shows a little differently to the British. The birds are judged before the doors open to the public, in most cases the day before the shows open. The results are published in the catalogue that you buy on the way in so it is easy to see the spread of marks in a category.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 19:21 |
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Poultry Nutrition - What is in your birds feed? |
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Written by Dr. Deepa G. Menon
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009 07:29 |
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Have you ever wondered what those different ingredients were in your chicken food? Well, you will find there are many differences between poultry feeds depending on the type and age of the bird as well as the the price you are paying and whether or not the feed is produced for us hobbiests or produced for the commercial poultry market. We asked Dr. Deepa, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Poultry Science in India to give us a run down of the ingredients that could potentially be found in some poultry rations.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 24 October 2009 18:43 |
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Types of Poultry Grit. |
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Written by Tim Daniels
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Friday, 21 August 2009 18:42 |
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"As rare as hens teeth" is a saying that most of us have heard at some point. Well the closest thing you can get to hens teeth is insoluble grit that chickens and other poultry use to grind down their food in the gizzard.
There are essentially two different types of poultry grit available.
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Last Updated on Friday, 23 October 2009 04:18 |
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