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30 April 2010 - Poultry – Selecting Your Bantams, Small Bantams
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The best Bantams to keep are probably the ones that are “low maintenance” as Bantams were originally bred to be miniature versions of larger chickens. This means that you want a chicken [...]

30 April 2010 - Choosing The Right Breed of Chickens
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Look before you leap!

If you are thinking of keeping chickens, think about the time you have available before you start, this is the single most important aspect to consider as they will [...]

29 April 2010 - The Best Chickens To keep
The best chickens to keep are those that best suit your personal purposes. It really does depend whether you want the chicken to produce meat, eggs or be a good show bird. Some types of chickens are also easier to keep cooped up in a back yard than others. Yet other types make better pets [...]

29 April 2010 - Chicken Keeping, The Ardenner Bantam – Poultry
this bird is a true country bird, it is very small and has roots right back to the early days of known records for chicken and
bantam breeding (1800).
The same applies for the Ardenner as with the Ancona Bantam, it needs lots of space and stuff to root around it. The eggs tend to be about [...]

29 April 2010 - Poultry Breeds – The Dorking Chicken
When you see a picture of a Dorklng you recognize it as the traditional portrait of a Norman Rockwell style of chicken complete with snowy white breast, single bright red cockscomb and black cowl. It is not only one of the most recognizable breeds of chicken in the world it is also one of the [...]