Smallholder: Poultry, livestock & other animals: Poultry

Poultry

Flying the flag for local produce - Steve Ivall explains how a Cornish family has signed up to supply free-range eggs to Asda
THE increase in locally-grown food products from Cornwall going into high profile supermarkets and properly marketed as "local" has been highlighted this month with eggs from a free-range chicken farm on the Roseland find their way on to the shelves of Asda.

Small-scale poultry for profit - Terry Beebe starts a new series on laying and table bird production
WITH the media coverage in poultry welfare over the last few months there has been an extraordinary amount of interest from the public with regards to the keeping and rearing of chickens - for their own use and also supplying products to the public on a small scale. This is an excellent idea but there are rules and regulations that have to be considered plus the breeds to use and equipment you will require.Reader comment (1)

The big day has arrived - Terry Beebe concludes his series on incubation with a look at chicks
HATCH day has arrived (in the case of chickens this is the 21st day) and, hopefully, there are some nice healthy chicks in the hatch tray. The chicks need to be left inside the incubator or hatcher until they are standing and moving around.

Opportunity for smallholders - Janice Houghton-Wallace meets John Kirkpatrick, of the Traditional Meat Marketing Company
NOT many people, apart from those in the commercial poultry industry, will know the name of John Kirkpatrick. However, when I tell you he was the man who came to the aid of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall when his broiler unit "experiment" set up for the Channel 4 "Hugh's Chicken Run" programmes needed a manager, he will be much more recognisable.Reader comment (1)

The reality of cheap chicken - Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at the effect of the ‘Chicken Out’ campaign
MILLIONS of people must have experienced a steep learning curve this January, as Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver set about explaining to the public the difference in living conditions between free-range and broiler chickens via a week of hard-hitting television programmes.Reader comment (1)

Hidden cost of cheap chicken - Janice Houghton-Wallace looks at the free-range campaign by celebrity chefs
IN the week that the Government finally decided that battery cages for laying hens should be outlawed by 2012, celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall fronted a series of hard-hitting programmes about the unacceptable conditions in intensive chicken broiler units, campaigning to improve the living conditions of meat birds as well.Reader comments (4)

Getting started with incubation - Terry Beebe begins with the basics – incubating eggs naturally or artificially?
INCUBATION is a subject which many people find hard to understand, but it is a natural form of reproduction and development of a fertile egg, which after a certain length of time hatches and produces the next generation of whatever breed is being incubated.Reader comments (3)

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