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Sustainable poultry keeping and breeding for every space and place. More Home About Blog Photo Gallery Links Contact Us See what's for sale! (Click here) Contact Us to advertise here. Recent Gallery Photos (Click to Open): Copyright Disclaimer: Copyright © 2013, 2014, 2016. . All Rights Reserved. All content on this website is copyright by law. No unauthorised use of it's contents is allowable without express permission by the Site Owner. Many pictures on this site are courtesy of Flickr’s Creative Commons. The Site Owner acknowledges and thanks all contributors for their pictures. Read the latest Blog entries Subscribe To : If you wish to subscribe to please submit your details via the Contact Us page. Subscribing allows you to get site updates. Your details will be kept private and not shared with any third parties. Incubating and hatching advice What I've Been Writing Lately: Welcome to in 2018... Whether you are new to keeping poultry , or consider yourself an old hand, hello and welcome to a place for all poultry enthusiasts, keepers and breeders. If you need : information and advice enjoy reading anecdotes, views and opinions or just like having a browse we'll do our best to provide active comment on sustainable poultry keeping and breeding for the smallest space through to the largest place. You will find regular updates and contributions in this site's BLOG , the most dynamic and changing section of the site. The BLOG also has categorised archives of previous posts so you can find the information you are looking for. Also don't forget to click on the tabs above to explore other pages on the site. Enjoy your visit! This site will continue to grow and change, so do come back, and don't forget to bookmark us, or subscribe to keep updated . What does the title cause you to think of? When I was a lad my family and I kept fowls in the back yard at home. They were the remnant of the old style of the hybrid layer - Leghorn cross Australorp I think. I can't remember how well or otherwise they laid eggs - I was only a child really. I can't even remember what colour the eggs were; probably white or pale cream. It didn't matter to me. I don't know if it mattered to my parents. I remember them grumbling about the cost of feeding the chickens, so the chickens probably didn't really earn their keep. Above: One of my standard-bred Australian Langshan cockerels. But that didn't matter to me. They were pets, and my brothers and I had one each and we gave them all na m e s . My hen was called 'Redhead'. We put different coloured leg bands on each of them in order to distinguish them. As if we needed to do that! Of course each hen was unique to each of us even though they may have all looked the same to anyone else. I guess you could say, that was not only the beginning of my chicken keeping journey, but that was our first home flock . Ever since then, over many years, and at various times, I have kept, developed, bred and cared for a home flock . Whether it was my later childhood foray into cross-bred cuckoo bantams or my first dabble into a standard-bred breed - blue Rose-comb bantams, I was learning all the time unconsciously, and building my admiration for these little winged creatures - the smallest of livestock, and my little friends. Since then, I have kept other breeds, hatched, grown and shown them, and vastly developed my chicken keeping knowledge, as well as my thoughts, viewpoints and attitudes toward keeping poultry. It is the benefit of such wisdom and insight that I freely offer to you on this site. Copyright © 2013. . All Rights Reserved. More: Contact us Home Create your own free website today Webs Better Websites Made Simple Create your own free website today...