By John Harrison based on work by Katie Thear Hybrid Hens These are birds of mixed parents and grandparents which have been developed for production by selecting from the best strains. A strain is a family line which has a…
Eglu Go Up on Omlet Web Site Following on from the very successful and iconic Eglu Classic, Omlet introduced the Eglu Go. It shares many of the features of the Eglu Classic but it is slightly smaller and lower in…
Eglu Cube on Omlet Web Site Last and largest of the Eglu family, the Eglu Cube shares the best features of the original Eglu Classic but on a larger scale. It’s an elevated house and so makes very efficient…
History of Hamburgh Chickens The Poultry Book of 1853 has this to say on the origins of the Hamburgh chickens: It deserves our notice that all tradition, all our oldest naturalists, and even the names by which onr fowls were…
An Easily-Moved Coop And Run For a Small Flock of Confined Fowls or Chicks. The combined coop and run shown in the photograph is one of several in successful use on an eastern backyard poultry plant. This house is only about…
With the rise in interest – and caution – in chemical use in both agriculture and livestock farming, many are choosing to raise their own and to do so to organic standards. The following articles should help guide you as…
When you keep poultry one of the things you may come across is aggression within your flock. Whether that be an overly amorous drake or the pecking order of your hens changes. It is important to deal with aggression fast.…
The name doesn’t really do them justice, Captain Hornby’s ‘Grey Dorkings’ were anything but grey and boring and by the second version of this book in 1867 this illustration was renamed Coloured Dorkings The Poultry Book of 1853 has this…
This was a revised and updated version of The Poultry Book from 1853. The new version was published by a different company who showed both offices in London and New York so it’s a reasonable assumption the book was also…
Anyone with a spare area of grass, such as a field, meadow or orchard, could do worse than consider keeping a few domestic geese. They will keep the grass down, provide large eggs for eating, cooking or decorating, as well…