Your Chickens - July 2018

In this issue

The Welsummer is renowned for the dark coloured, speckled eggs it lays combined with the very typical rich warm ‘jungle fowl’ plumage it exhibits. Well known as a layer of many eggs, some strains are also capable of supplying a reasonable amount of meat for the table.

The Good Eggs

Pure breeds developed for egg laying. This month: The Welsummer

2 mins

The Egg Man's got it cracked

David Herbert, nicknamed The Egg Man, tells you all you need to know about showing eggs

5 mins

A-Roaming We Go

Charlotte’s hens were born under a wandering star

1 min

Poultry Keeping Made Easy

Keep out! VOSS electric fence keeps poultry safe

2 mins

In Harmony With Nature

Susie Kearley talks to Anya Lautenbach whose home shows her love of gardening and chickens

7 mins

Slasher Battles On

Slasher the ancient Araucana is looking good, but looks can be deceptive

2 mins

Flock Dynamics: A Guide To Social Hierarchy

Julie Moore takes a look at how the pecking order is established

5 mins

W Is For Weather Part 2

Feathered ephemera: An eclectic alphabet of chicken facts with a difference.

4 mins

Chick-Napper Alert

Beware the hens who have too much maternal instinct

2 mins

A Great Stress-Buster

In this month’s column, Jeremy Hobson talks to Fergus Collins – editor of the BBC Countryfile magazine and chicken enthusiast. Fergus lives in Monmouthshire.

2 mins

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Your Chickens Magazine Description:

Your Chickens is a magazine for the back garden chicken keeper. Full of tips, advice and real life stories of people who have joined the chicken keeping boom. Your Chickens celebrates all that is good about chicken keeping.