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one-day
course
keeping chickens |
This course is tutored by Margaret of Durham Hens.
In recent years keeping chickens has become very popular. It is an enjoyable pastime with the added bonus of lovely fresh eggs. This course is designed to teach beginners all they need to know about keeping chickens, whether it’s on a smallholding, in a back garden or on an allotment. There will be hands-on experience of handling and inspecting chickens and a question and answer session.
The course includes:
- choosing chickens to suit you: breeds of chicken; uses of hens and what you want to get out of keeping chickens
- housing: different options for housing your hens
- predators: what they are and protecting your chickens
- feeding: what a chicken needs to grow healthily and to be productive
- health: the basics of chicken care; the moult; common diseases and their cures; how to handle a chicken and deal with chicken behaviour (pecking order, hens going broody etc); parasites and treatment
- egg production: understanding how a hen produces an egg and ways in which you can help or hinder this process
- breeding: incubators versus broodies; care of chicks
- meat production: ethical and welfare issues associated with keeping chickens for meat
- legalities: laws and guidance from authorities relevant to keeping poultry
- opportunity to ask questions
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arrive: |
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for a 10am prompt start |
depart: |
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after
the course finishes at 5pm |
directions: |
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click here for
directions to Bill Quay Community Farm |
what
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work
clothes; pen and notebook; packed lunch (if you're not using
the cafe) |
let
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if
you have any special needs |
price: |
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£60
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30
admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course |
lunch: |
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bring
a packed lunch or you can get lunch at the cafe |
car
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Buff Orpington hen
assorted hens and a Light Sussex cockerel free-ranging in woodland
Exchequer Leghorn cockerel
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