'plants & poultry'
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 …
Continue reading "Before the Backyard – a concise history of the chicken part 3"
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 …
Continue reading "Before the Backyard – a concise history of the chicken part 2"
Region of origin: France Profile: The combination of the deep red horned comb, strong beak, cavernous nostrils and beetle black plumage coupled with the solid stature of this breed means it well suited to it nick name of “Satan’s Fowl”. It is quite a large chicken which makes a good layer but grows quickly making …
I think I've just about fit them all in there.... anyone want to check if a breed is missing?? 😉
I write, in fact looking back over the decade of magazine, newspaper and book contributions I seem to write quite a bit. I’m not sure quite how many words I’ve written but each piece always seems to be a relatively short or succinct journey. Even the book I was involved with last year was broken …
A couple of blogs ago I mentioned I'd been out a few of the Royal agriculture shows working with The Rare Breeds Survival Trust promoting the UKs rare breed poultry as a part of their 40th Aniversary celebrations. Even with all the recent food scares and the general greater awareness of the public with regard …
If you subscribe to this blog, follow me on twitter or have bumped into me when I'm out and about then you might know I write for the poultry press & magazines. It was one of the magazines, namely Your Chickens, that approached me recently about working with them to put together a mini pocket …
I've been having a right Royal time of it recently and have been lucky enough to attend three of this years Royal Agricultural Shows. NFU Countryside magazine invited me and a few of my chickens along to join them at the Royal Bath & West show at the very beginning of the month after we'd …
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