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Our fun, lively and informative chicken afternoons provide you with all you need to know about keeping your poultry healthy and happy.
Ideal for first time chicken owners, or those thinking about taking up chicken keeping.
We give you practical advice, tips and support in all aspects of poultry husbandry.
For those already well versed in the art of chicken maintenance, we also offer more advanced courses.
However, we like to encourage a mixed range of ability on course, so you not only learn from us, you learn from each other.
We love daft questions and are committed to making these days as fun and helpful as possible. A definite afternoon out with a difference, for all the family, in a beautiful and rural South Yorkshire location.
Once we’ve done all the chicken schmoozing, the Hen Party will begin.
We have an informal chat, with a question and answer session in our teepee with traditional tea, cake and sandwiches. (Don’t worry, there’ll be no chicken sandwiches on offer!)
And of course, nobody walks away empty handed. They’ll be a goody bag for every guest full of handy hints and hen treats!
Come along to one of our courses, there’s so much more to chicken keeping than meets the eye.
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Ian from perfect poultry let us collect a few eggs to take home with us before giving us some advice on which breeds we should get.
We eventually chose a Light Sussex, which we will eat, a Black Rock, and a Calder Ranger.
He also sold us some feeding equipment.
Visit the perfect poultry website.
http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
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Simeon and I went to Perfect Poultry near Guildford in Surrey to buy our chickens. We still had not decided on what breed we wanted and we hoping to get some advice when we got there.
Perfect Poultry is run by Ian Bell who was very friendly and helpful and show us the whole facility and process from fertilising the eggs right through incubating them, hatching them and then growing them.
We explained to him that we have capacity for about 3 chickens and are mainly interested in eggs but would like one bird that we could fatten for the table. We also suggested that we would like to have three different types of chicken so that they (and their eggs) are easier to tell apart. So, for eggs he recommended a Calder Ranger and a Black Rock, both of which should lay over 300 eggs in a year and for the table a Light Sussex, which will also lay eggs, around 240 per year. I am not expecting it to be the best meat I have ever tasted as I have heard that breeds that lay lots of eggs don’t make good meat as lots of the protein and stuff that would have made meat is lost to make eggs. But the Light Sussex is supposed to be relatively good for both.
Visit their website:
http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
Music: ‘No More’ by EMU/Dan Palmer. Used with permission.
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