{"id":15226,"date":"2016-06-02T21:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/chicken-keeping-for-beginners\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:09:07","slug":"chicken-keeping-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/chicken-keeping-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken keeping for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nYou\u2019ve grown the veg, now get the eggs: once you\u2019ve set up your own veg patch, back garden chicken keeping is the obvious next stepI\u2019ve interviewed a lot of smallholders over the years and in most cases, a quest for greater self-sufficiency began with a back garden or allotment veg patch. Of course you don\u2019t need to move to the countryside to expand your self-sufficiency horizons, and this is why for many back garden chicken keeping is the obvious next step.I love keeping chickens \u2013 they are such fascinating, friendly creatures and I\u2019ll never tire of freshly produced, properly free range eggs. With the gardening and smallholding courses that we\u2019ll be running on our little Welsh plot in the very near future, more animals are very much on the agenda. I adopted some rescue hens a few weeks back: without the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT), they would have been destined for slaughter. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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