Poultry Keeping News

ilikechickens expand into Poultry Supplies and Equipment

admin@poultrykeeper.com (ilikechickens) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:08:36 GMT

ilikechickens.co.uk, the ultimate store for chicken lovers, is proud to announce its expansion into Poultry Supplies & Equipment now making it the UK's most complete chicken store.

Launched in 2010, ilikechickens has provided the UK with the largest chicken themed homewares & gifts available anywhere in the world. Building on this success and the demand from its thousands of loyal customers it now brings the same unrivalled quality, passion and value for money to every aspect of the chicken keepers life.

New Hensafe Door Opener-Closer

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Julie Norman) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

HenSafe is an innovative hen house door opener and closer which has three operating modes in one compact, weatherproof box. Driven by microprocessor it has a user-friendly menu system which makes setting up a piece of cake. Invented in Wiltshire by seasoned chicken keepers, HenSafe fills the gap in the market for a door opener/closer which, uniquely, uses a combination of Light and Time together in one box.

New Tripod Poultry Drinkers from Osprey BEC

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Mike Taylor-Wilson) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Osprey BEC have been developing new products for the game and poultry industry for nearly fifty years for 2012 we have produced a range of tripod drinkers that are durable, easy to use and maintain.

These Drinkers come in three sizes – ten, twenty and thirty litres. Made of UV stabilised polypropylene and polyethylene these drinkers are designed to cope with the toughest conditions found on game shoots and poultry farms throughout the globe. They are

The Tibetan Sky Chicken House

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Hannah Adgopul) — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT

If you’re contemplating keeping chickens for the first time then you’re probably past imagining wonderful things to do with eggs and onto wondering about the practical implications of keeping hens. For most people it’s this element that will make them reconsider, committing to letting chickens in and out morning and night is something most of us simply don’t have the time for.

The Tibetan Sky Chicken House really means

New Built-in ChickBox from BEC

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Mike Taylor-Wilson) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:31:49 GMT

Following on from the world wide success of the first version of the Chick Box, Osprey BEC have designed and developed a new version to fit into the wall of hen houses and chicken coops.

Easy to install, the new Chick Box™ is aimed at poultry keepers looking for a nesting box with rear access allowing easy external egg collection without having to enter the hen house! The nestbox can easily be

Online Poultry Shows on Facebook

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Karren Pimlott) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:40:54 GMT

Online Poultry Shows (OPS) is a monthly show of photographs of poultry held on the social networking site Facebook. We are the worlds first GLOBAL online show... Online poultry showing is the alternative way to show poultry from the comfort of your own home.
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Urgent Plea - Battery Hen Rehoming

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Jo Barlow) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:58:34 GMT

Due to the barren cage ban coming into force in January 2012, there are literally thousands of battery hens throughout the UK needing homes this Christmas to save them from slaughter. What better way to celebrate the season of giving than to give life to some very deserving little hens. The response so far has been amazing – a bumper December! Many hundreds of kind and compassionate people have offered these little battery hens a home. So many have been saved, but so

Fowl Pox Outbreaks

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Richard Jackson BVMs (Hons) MRCVS) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Over the past few months Chicken Vet has had a number of reports from owners and vets about the presence of Fowl pox, especially in the Midlands. Whilst the disease itself is not necessarily life threatening it is a very painful condition and one that is hard to get rid of from a holding.
Fowl pox is caused by a pox virus and mostly affects chickens. There is a pigeon pox virus and a turkey pox virus.
The Fowl pox virus can be spread by biting insects

New Appenzeller Spitzhauben Society

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Benjamin Milby) — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:54:33 GMT

The Appenzeller Spitzhauben is a very special breed indeed; it combines stunning beauty with the ability to earn its keep with masses of large white eggs. These traits have helped to build up the popularity of the breed so much that a group of breeders got together in February 2010 with the intention of forming a dedicated breed society. After 22 months of hard work the Appenzeller Spitzhauben has now been transferred to the care of the Appenzeller Spitzhauben Society of Great Britain, following an

A Happy Tummy for Hens

admin@poultrykeeper.com (Tim Daniels) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:13:27 GMT

Happy Tummy™ Gold is a new natural product produced by Fine Fettle Feeds which has a number of benefits for poultry. It is made from ground hardwood charcoal which is known to absorb toxins from the body and captures ammonia which is found in droppings.

Reading through the published literature, a key feature of Happy Tummy™ Gold is that it is non digestable that is, unlike a medicine, it adds nothing to the hens body, but absorbs toxins and captures ammonia