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Feeding Chickens
Keeping Chickens

Feeding Chickens

Domesticated chickens, especially modern hybrids, are fantastic egg layers; however, this performance increases nutritional demands, so how we feed our chickens has never been so

Looking After Chickens
Keeping Chickens

Looking After Chickens in Ten Easy Steps

Looking after chickens is relatively easy, but like all animals, they still need care and consideration. Follow these ten steps to looking after chickens, and

family Guide
Book Reviews

A Family Guide to Keeping Chickens Book Review

This practical, full colour book, is ideal for the complete beginner. Even someone who has never kept animals before should be able to follow the clear, detailed guidance that is given at every stage.

How much space for chickens
Keeping Chickens

How Much Space Do Chickens Need?

Many of us have relatively small back gardens these days, and if you get the urge to keep some chickens, you might start wondering whether

Laws on Keeping Chickens
Keeping Chickens

Laws on Keeping Chickens

Although most UK laws are aimed at the commercial poultry sector, we still have to follow several regulations. In the US there is a lot of variation between cities.

Chicken Bedding
Keeping Chickens

What is the Best Chicken Bedding Material?

I rate some of the chicken coop bedding I have used, from wood shavings and straw to shredded paper and cardboard, and even some of the specialist poultry bedding like Easichick and Auboise.