Welcome to ChickenStreet, a place for plants and poultry

No matter how you happened upon us, be it via a link, directly or simply stumbled upon, then hello and welcome to ChickenStreet; a place for plant-aholics and chickeneers

Here you will find a blog filled with procrastination’s about poultry and garble about gardening in an untidy tangle of the two, pages for the plants we propagate and grow for folks to buy, along with the events & talks we attend and deliver.

Finally if it’s books, articles, photography or media you are looking for then Freelance ChickenStreet is the page for you – Enjoy your visit, bookmark us and do come back.

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April 16, 2020

Before the Backyard – a concise history of the chicken part 4

Last time we learnt how the chicken played what could quite well have been a pivotal role in the Roman Empire. If you think on it, how many times did the Pulliarus, the keeper of the sacred chickens cast down some food, open the cage of the sacred chickens and then take the auspices. Divining …

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July 19, 2019

Before the Backyard – a concise history of the chicken part 3

Over the last couple of posts we’ve being developing a picture of the ‘chicken’ in its earliest forms. We’ve looked at what its ancestors ‘in the wild’ were and where geographically it is likely to have originated from. We’ve considered how it became associated with humankind and why, and yet so far we haven’t really …

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May 20, 2019

Before the Backyard – a concise history of the chicken part 2

Last time we took an overview of the early evolution of the chicken as we know it today however this time we will take a step backwards. Chickens weren’t always chickens, at least not the way we think of and see chickens today or even a couple of centuries ago. The humble chicken today is …

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