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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 [...]

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 - 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 [...]