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Alex ALEXANDROV
Feb 2007: A Russian rarity - the famous Yurlov Long Crower
Stuart ANDERSON
Mar 2010: The strange world of a broody hen
Vivien ASPEY
Nov 2006: New beaks for old - keeping hens for pleasure
Alan and Rosie BEAT
April 2008: All in one basket - celebrating home produced eggs
Terry BEEBE
April 2010: Wonderful Welsummers
Incubation and brooders Q&A
March 2010: Into the brooder
Glorious Game
Collectables - The Wright Stuff
February 2010: Dazzling Dominiques
The art of incubation
January 2010: Perfect Pekins
Christmas 2009: Charming Cochin
Chicken chinaware
Dec 2009: Magnificant Marans
Preparing for Winter
Nov 2009: Fabulous Faverolle
Best book collactables
July 2009: Swiss stunner
Hen helper - prevent feather loss during mating
Collectables - unique pieces of poultry memorabilia
April 2009: Japanese Bantam
Nov 2008: Chicken breeds and welfare
David BLAND
Nov 2009: What is a hybrid?
Wendy BRADLEY
Feb 2004: A day at the auction - acquiring some hens
Grant BRERETON
April 2010: How clean is your poultry house?
Red Sussex Large Fowl
March 2010: Coping with the cold weather
Striking Spangles
Becoming a better breeder
Are you thinking about hatching?
Christmas 2009: New Keeper's Club for West Yorkshire
Birds for the table
More than a silver lining
The psychological effects of red mite
Dec 2009: Show special
Getting ready for a show
Nov 2009: Fowl can be friends - how to introduce new birds to your flock
Profile on plumage - Birchen
Preparing for the winter shows
Poultry problems - mites and leg rings
July 2009: Rearing the natural way
Profile on plumage - Partridge pattern
Apr 2004: Wonderful Wyandottes
Oct 2004: Making the best job - better care, better birds
John BUTTERWORTH
March 2007: installing solar powered lighting for a hen house
Charlotte CARNEGIE
May 2006: A poultry tale - her growing collection
Kirsty CLOWES
Oct 2005: Mysterious handsome stranger - taking in a cockerel
Sue COLEMAN
Apr 2005: To meat or not eat? - poultry keeping and the cockerel that escaped the dinner table
Dec 2004: Taking on a few chickens - traditional poultry keeping in Normandy
Sue COOPER
Sep 2004: Four French hens - free range chickens on French smallholding
Michael FANNER
Feb 2006: More poultry mania
Jul 2005: Poultry mania - 15 year old poultry keeper
Mary GOOLD
Oct 2005: Housing highland hens - thrifty poultry ideas
Briony GUBBINS
Dec 2009: From freezer to brooder
Martin GURDON
Dec 2005: Hatching a plan - preparation before buying birds
Jeremy HOBSON
Christmas 2009: Bedtime for French hens
Jeremy HOBSON AND CELIA LEWIS
November 2007: Poultry buyer's guide
Gabriel HEMERY
May 2005: Down to the woods - farming system that marries poultry and forestry
HUMANE SLAUGHTER ASSOCIATION
July 2009: how to dispatch your poultry humanely
Lynne JACKSON
March 2006: Henchanted garden - sharing a garden with poultry
Joe JACOBS
July 2004: New stock, new house - visit to a local poultry auction and building a new chicken house
Sebastian JAY
March 2008: Chicken and eggs. Sebastian Jay tries to lower the cost of keeping some livestock
Gail HARLAND
Jan 2008: Gail Harland keeps poultry in Suffolk
Geoff HANCOCK
Oct 2006: Fowl at work and play - a light hearted look at poultry keeping
Derek HINE
Jan 2004: The whitest of Wyandotttes
Diane JANES
Christmas 2007: Poultry Palace
Jane HOWORTH
Jan 2005: A happier new year - battery hen update
Mar 2004: A much better life - Jane explains why she set up a retirement home for battery hens
June 2004: Caring for battery hens
Oct 2004: Check your batteries - rescuing battery hen update and role of consumer choice
David KERR
Jan 2005: Belgian breeds
John LAW
Feb 2010 Chicken comings and goings
Pauline MACKAY-DANTON
April 2009: Steady as a Black Rock
Tina McDOWELL
Feb 2006: Do as you please hens
Oct 2005: A new start - progress of rescued battery hens
Simon MCEWAN
Nov 2008: The Chicken Boom - poultry craze in towns and cities
Cathryn MOORE
May 2008: Keeping turkeys
Beth PARKER
Feb 2005: The trouble with Goldie - chicken in NZ
Sep 2005: Rulers of the roost - Guinea fowl in NZ
Diane PARKER
Aug 2005: Cheap as chickens - keeping costs down
Pammy RIGGS
April 2010: Young Broodies in Autumn, Grow your own chicken food, Explaining Geese behaviour
March 2010: Winter moults, Big Egg, Little Egg, Remember Dot-Dot?
February 2010: Wyandottes - appearance of head, vaseline on combs and wattles?, the joys of properly fresh eggs!, Cleaning eggs, Where can I get white or lime wash
Christmas 2009: Are my hens bored in their run? , Breaking the food chain by going local, Natural remedies for your poultry
Dec 2009: Could it be red mite?, Its all in the shape, advice on table birds
March 2009: Diet, moulting and laying
Dec 2008: Your poultry questions answered: dispatching and bleeding a bird, advice on coloured eggs, stop henpecking
Nov 2008: Your poultry questions answered: electric stunning, hung on shackles, bird injured in battle with a dog
Oct 2008: Your poultry questions answered: talking about trios, gritty solution to problem if rubbery shell, dealing with magpie menace, feeding tips for rehomed battery hens
July 2008: Your poultry questions answered: Life after fertile eggs gift, Bantams: can you beat this age?, One feather out of place could be bad news..., preparing goslings for Christmas
June 2008: Your poultry questions answered: How many can I have?, What is candling?, Time for a dust bath, Feed the best and you will eat the best, What wise old birds!
May 2008: Your poultry questions answered. Advice from Chicken Whisperer
April 2008: Pammy Riggs introduces herself and her new poultry features in CS
Michael ROBERTS
March 2009: Guide to good breeding
Dec 2008: Chicken housing
Oct 2008: Chickens for beginners - 7 page special
Victoria ROBERTS
May 2007: Preparing birds for the table
Jan 2006: Avian influenza
Feb 2006: How can I tell if it's AI?
June 2006: Avian flu - info from Defra
Aug 2006: A bird in the hand - how to handle poultry
Oct 2006: Performing a post mortem - going through the procedure
Dec 2006: Guidelines for keeping cockerals
Apr 2005: Setting standards - Poultry Club of GB
Jun 2005: Control of coccidosis
Aug 2005: Control of Marek’s disease
Sep 2005: Control of tumours in chickens
Apr 2004: Poultry diseases chart
Richard ROWLEY
April 2008: The Welsh National Poultry Show
Jan 2008: A show apart - Poultry judge Richard Rowley went to the Selston Show
Jan 2007: Every thought of showing?
Hans L SCHIPPERS
Jan 2006: A feast for the eyes
March 2006: Colourful subject - how eggs get their colour
July 2006: Frizzled Polands - a fascinating new variety
Aug 2006: Getting to know poultry - a successful workshop in Holland
Nov 2005: Out and out fancier - poultry authority from Holland, shows in Holland and Germany
David SCRIVENER
July 2008: Historic hens - specialist breeds
June 2008: Feather footed breeds
May 2008: The story of hybrids
April 2008: Orpington ducks
March 2008: Set for the new season - David Scrivener is assessing his flock and making plans
Feb 2008: Campbell ducks
Jan 2008: The road from Rouen - David Scrivener looks at some breeds of duck from France
November 2007: Long and lean - Indian Runner duck
May 2007: A question of poultry
April 2007: Investing for the future
Mar 2007: A gem of a bird - Rosecomb bantams
Feb 2007: Rare Breeds
Jan 2007: The creative urge - creating new breeds
Jan 2006: Good laying lookers
Feb 2006: Dark and handsome - Barnevelders
March 2006: A popular choice - Marans
April 2006: No classic farmyard fowl - the Malay
May 2006: Heavyweight hens - Indian Game
June 2006: Blue eggs, Chilean roots? - the ever-popular Araucanas
July 2006: Two of a kind - Derbyshire Redcaps and Old English Pheasant Fowl
Aug 2006: Three Belgian beauties - a trio of Belgian bantam breeds
Sept 2006: Tales of the tailless - some rumpless breeds
Oct 2006: Chicken colours clarified - poultry plumage and patterns
Nov 2006: Birds of many colours - David looks at poultry plumage and patterns
Dec 2006: Fine and fancy
Jan 2005: The autosexing breeds
Feb 2005: From gold to cream - more autosexing breeds
Mar 2005: Past, present & future - autosexing part 3
Apr 2005: Fancy Frizzles
May 2005: No run of the mill breed - Naked Necks
Jun 2005: Trying our best - systems for maintaining and improving prue breed flocks
Jul 2005: Built to impress - Cochins
Aug 2005: A controversial breed - Langshan
Sep 2005: The wider Langshan family
Oct 2005: Made in Britain - Ixworths & Norfolk Greys and extinct breeds - Buff Medway, etc
Nov 2005: Breed clubs, breed choices - breeding/showing
Dec 2005: Poultry in print - poultry books
Jan 2004: Testing times - how to become a poultry judge and showing in general
Feb 2004: Discover Dorkings
Mar 2004: Best of British - the Sussex
Apr 2004: Lincolnshire Buffs, Orpingtons & Astralorps, part 1
May 2004: Orpingtons and relations - exhibition type, part 2
June 2004: Astralorps & old type Orpingtons, part 3
July 2004: Small but interesting - conclusion of Orpington family, part 4
Aug 2004: A stylish breed - Silkies
Sep 2004: Bredas and Kraienkoppes
Oct 2004: The cocks can crow - Russian breeds, Pavloff, Jurlow, Orloff
Nov 2004: Favouring Faverolles
Dec 2004: Poultry pack of cards - collectable cards
Benjamin SHEPHERD
Oct 2004: A respectable bird - turkeys part 1
Nov 2004: In fine feather - turkeys part 2, varieties
Dec 2004: Tending turkeys part 3, caring for turkeys
Ann SMITH
Feb 2004: Rescue hens
Dr William STANTON
Nov 2005: Camping with chickens - keeping poultry in Angola in the 50s
Jeni STANTON
May 2004: A tale of turkeys
Natalie STOPPARD
Dec 2006: The breed for me - Ixworths
Dot SCHWARZ
April 2010: Mixing birds - parrots and hens
Katie THEAR (Poultry Pen and poultry articles)
May 2007: PP - Looking their best, The Scots Dumpy,Turkey breeding, Best broody hens, Summer shade
April 2007: Starting with ducks
March 2007: Buying an Incubator
Feb 2007: Starting with chickens
Jan 2007: Guide to going commercial
Jan 2006: PP - chicken combs, an old French breed, and the importance of winter care
Feb 2006: Poultry indoors
March 2006: PP - Fishy eggs, Registration, Yellow pigmentation, Birds of prey, Duck eggs, Humidity, Heat lamps, British Poultry Standards, Avian flu leaflet.
May 2006: Fine flocks - a day in the Cotswolds
PP - Quail queries, Hen won't perch, Runny droppings, Cold chicks, When are eggs fertile?, Bird flu and organic eggs, Breeding a brown egg layer, Sexing geese, Communal nests, Ducks with chickens, Grass ley for poultry, Poultry expressions, British Pig and Poultry Fair.
June 2006: General advice on poultry keeping
PP - Can you get into trouble for keeping a cockerel? Can you stop him crowing? How should a breeding cockerel be managed? Is there an AI service for hens? Is the cockerel needed to control hens? Will hens lay eggs as well without a cockerel? Are males prettier than females? What should you do with unwanted males?
July 2006: Katie Thear visits the Domestic Fowl Trust
PP -Do turkeys need to run? What's an Elizabeth duck? Sexing goslings by colour, What colours can be expected? Behaviour of goslings, Pecking food for chickens, Why keep rheas? Solitary goose, Disabled duckling, Crop impaction, Crooked, curling toes, Vaccination, Organic treatment, Crisps, What do chickens think about? National Poultry Show.
Aug 2006: PP - Pop-holes; Barbie/Barbu confusions; Onset of lay; Hatching quail eggs under a broody hen; Introducing chicks; Crop-bound chicken; Problems in the laying flock; Swiss hen; Goose trio; Building a house; Geese and pigs; One for the pot; Brown Leghorns.
Sept 2006: Down in Dorset - a visit to Dorset Smallholders at Kingston Maurward College PP - Five toes; Chickens with ducks; Guard chicken; Broody not eating; Low fencing; Trembling chicks
Oct 2006: PP - How much sunshine? Silver Cmpines; Renovating a poultry house; Winter lighting; The winter run; Hunt the nests; Unwanted cockerels; Legarth geese; Pekin ducks; Illegal operations
Nov 2006: Setting up a breeding flock - issues and practicalities
Dec 2006: Thought for food - Guide to feeding for healthy poultry
Jan 2005: PP - floor litter, inherited traits in poultry, turkey snood, natural care for Guinea fowl, middlings, what to do this time of year
Feb: Spring chickens - choosing and setting up an incubator, eggs, healthy parents. charts on optimum incubator conditions&reasons for hatching failures
Mar 2005: Feeling brooding & PP - broody hens
+ straw bales, slatted verandahs, unseasonal moulting, shell-less eggs, showing Cream Crested Legbars, wounded Wyandotte, vicious attacks, Cornish and Rocks + feed back on cock crowing and shredded paper.
Apr 2005: Adapting a shed as a poultry house. PP - egg eating, breeding Cochins, distinguishing pure breeds, slaughter, washing eggs, show ducks and greens, legislation & home poultry keeping, goose longevity, music for chickens, breeding age, red mite, Defra vet website.
May 2005: Computer software for breeders. PP - chickens and bees, poultry on grass, poultry symmetry, responsible breeding, orphan joining flock, why do chickens sneeze, quail cages, no eggs, Cream Legbars, outside roosts, Friesians.
Jun 2005: Coturnix quail. PP - dog kennel for poultry, clipping hen’s claws, hen noise, broody questions, Curfew incubators, strange poultry terms, feedback on shredded paper, internal nest boxes, dust bathing.
Jul 2005: Red mites and pale eggs. PP - ducks and grassland, darkest brown egg, fertile eggs, grains and feed pellets, booted bantams.
Aug 2005: The outdoor life - visit to Barley Farm, organic poultry farm. PP - chickens for beginners, blood spots in eggs, white eggs, duck ideal, queueing hens, soiled eggs.
Sep 2005: A visit to Abbey Leys Farm, organic egg and potato enterprise. PP - Omega 3 eggs, day old ducks, trimming spurs, Cream Legbar crosses, incubation query, Black Leghorn cross, Wayze geese and chucks.
Oct 2005: PP - Collecting eggs, feathers and the structure of a feather, dabbling duck damage, crowing cockerels, scaly leg, herbal strips and list of useful poultry plants, small eggs, bread for ducks, quail egg markings, organic registration.
Nov 2005: PP - Can chickens count, recognitiion, diagram of range of browsing levels, pecking and nesting behaviour, preening, no eggs, extra food, dubbing, in-breeding, badgers, leg colour, Guinea fowl, poultry expressions.
Dec 2005: View from Shropshire - visit to smallholders’ group and poultry keepers. PP - rescued hens, incubating pheasant eggs, cider vinegar, picked on cockerel, red mites and organic standards.
Jan 2004: Hit the Haye - visit to Haye Mill, 70 acre site
Feb 2004: Poultry pen - chickens in woodlands, perching turkeys, claw clipping, poultry organisations
Mar 2004: Poultry pen - eggs & meat chickens, Golden Essex breed, DIY poultry house, ornithophobia, Mareks, pot eggs & leg rings, dropped wing geese, rats attacking quail, bald ended chickens
May 2004: Poultry pen - info on Araucanas, brassy birds, feeding and laying, feeding Coturnix quail, feather pecking, Naked Necks, selling chickens, query re 1926 Devon imports from Japan
June 2004: Poultry pen - Vorwerks and Lakenvelders, a day in the life of a chicken, large eggs, Coturnix quail queries, correct amount of calcium, seasonal reminders, watery eggs
July 2004: Poultry pen - summer: importance of sun and shade, moulting, outside roosting, summer pests and predators, the perennial broody, egg eating, holidays
Aug 2004: Poultry pen - how sociable are chickens?, sheep and chickens, Junegle fowl, feeding ducks, releasing ducks into wild, Toulouse geese, incubation queries, breed colourings.
Sep 2004: Poultry pen - duck pond, diagram of pond, avoiding hen stress, anti-fox plant, wing clipping, not using perch, aggressive birds, dock leaves, red mites, leg ring in egg
Oct 2004: Poultry pen - preparing for autumn, crested ducks, eggshell colour with chart, Danish Waddlers, American White Laced Cornish Game, holly berries, cloudy drinkers, infections from chickens
Nov 2004: Poultry pen - winter housing, keeping hens out of of the mud, winter run, utilising a shed or barn, smallholding flock, diagram of house and run, list of suppliers
Dec 2004: Food for the gods - keeping table chickens
Lorraine TURNBULL
July 2009: From pen to plate
Jane VAN DER LUIT
Feb 2007: Meet Banana and her beau - pet turkeys
Norma WILEY
November 2007: Attack of the feline fiend
April 2006: Not the best of years - looking back
Jul 2005: Garden hens - update from 2002
Apr 2004: Garden hens - update, family of hens in Wales
Anne WILLINGALE
Nov 2004: Eggciting adoption - a disappointing start to poultry keeping
Misc
March 2008: Let them out! Why CS is supporting Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Out! campaign
March 2008: We meet the Millwey Mob - Down on the allotment from the TV Chicken Run series