Poultry

We run a small mixed flock of chickens, keeping eight to 10 ISA Browns for eggs and 20-30 rare breed Scots Greys for breeding. We’re focusing on utility for our Scots Greys so our breeding programme aims to re-develop their original dual-purpose focus on eggs and meat.

We do not have hatching eggs or chickens for sale at this point, as we’re concentrating on developing our own flock.

Feed prices rise again

Seasonal guide to eating chickens

Boiled chicken and vegetables

There’s no birds like snow birds

The birdie dance (video of our poultry)

Scots Grey eggs

Talking chicken (understanding your poultry)

Good news for the Scots Grey

Intensive farming is a solution, not the problem (a different take on the free range chicken campaigns)

Should you keep chickens?

Has Hugh been a bit naughty?

Storm damage

Rat catching

Scots Greys (background on the breed)

Killing chickens

Growing larger (Scots Grey chicks)

How many eggs?

Correcting splayed legs

Feather pecking

And now chicken rustlers

Keeping cockerels and hens

Joining the flock

Hatching success

Introducing new birds to a flock

Wing clipping chickens

Scots Greys critically endangered

Feeding chickens

Building a hen house