Poultry are popular. Hardly a week seems to go by without a magazine or newspaper carrying an article about another celebrity’s new-found love of keeping poultry.
Not since the heady days of the 1850s, when ‘hen fever’ was at its height and people vied with each other to purchases new breeds of poultry for enormous sums of money, have our feathery friends been so in demand.
For those people who had been quietly keeping poultry for many years, it initially came as something of a shock to discover more and more people deciding that they wished to add poultry keeping into their lives. After all, prior to all this recent interest, they had been classed as the add ones out!
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There are numerous pedigree services available to nearly all domesticated animals except poultry, until now.
With the large number of fowl kept by serious breeders such as breeders of Gamefowl it has not been feasible for a breeder to register each individual bird with a pedigree service that charges a fee for each registration. International Poultry Breeders Association is the first pedigree service available for all poultry breeds and it is free to register and free to enter all your individual birds.
The International Poultry Breeders Association was established to give poultry breeders of all breeds of feathered fowl including our beloved Gamefowl, a way of organizing and maintaining a record of ancestral breeding.
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Introduction
As a young boy I can remember vividly my father having Rhode Island Red chickens in our backyard. We were encouraged to take care of them because they were an integral part of family life. It goes without saying that the best part of each day was collecting the newly laid eggs, So Fresh and so Tasty !
This early encounter has left me with a keenness for keeping poultry and within this article I hope to impart some of my knowledge & experiences while keeping Poultry.
Electric Fencing
What could be better than for the chickens to be able to roam free in a Garden, Field or Orchard and to scratch around for worms, grubs, slugs, snails etc.
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