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30 April 2010 - Choosing The Right Breed of Chickens
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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 - 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 [...]

29 April 2010 - Chicken Keeping – Wyandotte – Poultry Breeds
The Wyandotte is an interesting breed of chicken that find it origins in the United States. Nobody is quite sure of their lineage and they are an example of a random miracle when it comes to an eating bird. sighted. The first variety of this poultry was reported in the 1860s was of a silver [...]

29 April 2010 - Selecting Your Chickens, Choosing The Right Breeds
It is a mistake to think all chickens will get on well together – just like many animals, there is a natural pecking order amongst
different types of breeds.

Whenever there are more than two chickens and no cockerel, one will always try to be the dominant one, in effect, being the cockerel – this can be [...]