Your birds aren't the only ones laying eggs, worms that your chickens carry lay eggs too to survive. Janssen Animal Health, the makers of Flubenvet give us the low down.

I have been keeping birds for about 60 years - virtually all my life, I will be 70 this year so since I was about 10 I suppose. I was brought up on a farm and we always had poultry and ducks. The breeds we had were the norm in those days, like Sussex, RIR, but it would be around 33 years ago that I first started with the Pekins.

The first ones I bought were a pair of Blue Pekins from Dewsbury Auction for my 9 year old daughter, Judith, who showed them at a pet show; she got a second and a special, so it all started from there really with Pekins.

Andrea Heesters and Peter Jacobs in The Netherlands are believed to be the first people to import Tufted American Buff geese from the USA into Europe. Here is their story...

The American Buff goose is one of the few domesticated goose breeds originated in the United States. Unfortunately the history of this beautiful goose is unknown. Some think they have developed from buff mutations in flocks of grey geese and others think they may have been created from buff colored geese, like the Buff Back, Pomeranian and Pilgrim which came from Europe.

Michelle Garner of the Battery Hen Welfare Trust keeps two llamas in her field with her chickens and has seen them chasing off foxes and dogs that have enter the field. She tells us a little more about her llamas and chickens.

O.K - so you want some hens, but you have a family of foxes next door? You have a large flock and can't keep them in a secure run? Your land makes electric fencing difficult and unreliable? There is another solution - ever thought of Llamas? 

You may have read our article on the Bird Welfare Strategy Group at the beginning of the year, well, here is an update on the latest events.