Chicken Keeping Starts With the Right Flock

Chicken Keeping Starts With the Right Flock

A good flock is a pleasure to keep. Fresh eggs are only part of it. The real reward in chicken keeping is knowing your birds are settled, sound on their legs, safe from predators and behaving as a flock should. Get the foundations right and daily care becomes a...
Best Chicken Housing in the UK for Your Flock

Best Chicken Housing in the UK for Your Flock

A coop that looks smart in the garden can still be a poor place to keep birds. The best chicken housing UK keepers choose is not defined by a painted roof, a bargain price or a claimed bird capacity. It is housing that stays dry through a wet February, cleans out...
Blue / Lavender Brahma Breeding Explained

Blue / Lavender Brahma Breeding Explained

A blue / lavender Brahma is often advertised as though it were one colour, but it is not. Blue and lavender are different genetic effects, and confusing them is one of the quickest ways to buy hatching eggs or breeding stock that will not produce the chicks you...
Beekeeping Supplies UK for Stronger Hives

Beekeeping Supplies UK for Stronger Hives

A colony does not need every gadget in the catalogue. It needs sound housing, room to grow, reliable food when forage is short, and a keeper equipped to inspect it properly. When looking for beekeeping supplies UK buyers can depend on, start with the job each item...
Your Guide to Poultry Biosecurity at Home

Your Guide to Poultry Biosecurity at Home

A new bird can look the picture of health at collection and still carry something your established flock has never met. That is why a proper guide to poultry biosecurity starts before the bird reaches your gate. Good biosecurity is not about turning a back garden into...
Buying Over Wintered Nucs of Bees With Confidence

Buying Over Wintered Nucs of Bees With Confidence

A cheap nuc that fails in April is not a bargain. When you are buying over wintered nucs of bees, you are paying for more than five or six frames, a queen and a box. You are buying proof that a colony has come through the hardest part of the beekeeping year and is...

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