Welcome To My Keeping Chickens Blog

Many More people today are keeping chickens as pets in their garden, mostly for fun and the reward of a few fresh eggs.

My wife Sharon & I have kept chickens for over 25 years and from our Smallholding here in Lincolnshire as well as selling our surplus eggs we now sell a range of 12 different types of  Hybrid Egg Laying Chickens. It seems though that there is a shortage of good easy to understand information on keeping chickens so I thought I would start this Blog which will take the form of a diary of our life with our chickens and good informative articles, so please come back regularly for fresh articles.

A successful chicken keeper today is the one that accepts the fact that forms of poultry perfectly acceptable say 10 years ago is not acceptable today. The call for better stock, and for information as to what is good stock and the best mode of handling, general care, feeding, housing, deseases is higher than ever. So I thought why not start a simple chicken keeping blog that is accessable to all those who keep a few chickens as pets, and at the same time gives all the information desired concerning the different varieties of chickens and how best to look after them.

My site will contain all that is really valuable to the fancier who keeps chickens for pleasure, I will try to keep it plain, practicle & simple. I will blow no horn in the interest of any class of man or woman, or any type of fowl but make it a plain and truthful talk between writer & reader.

In answer to this demand as far as in me lies, I offer this little site on keeping chickens: all of which is respectfully submitted to the reader.