keeping poultry in your backyard or garden is growing in popularity and is proving to be a popular hobby. From fresh eggs to free-range, Claire will take you through the different breeds of hens and their characteristics, and look at feeding, health and welfare and common ailments and how to treat them. Also covers hatching eggs and caring for chicks plus breeding for showing and how to prepare for a poultry show. Claire keeps a number of rare breed hens and shows them successfully , having won at top UK shows.
Views: 694 | Enquiries: 2A graduate in Agriculture and Food Marketing, Claire runs Grassroots PR Ltd with a focus on plants, pigs and poultry! She lives in Somerset and used to run a small holding for years.
Claire combines her love of growing with a passion for countryside topics, from poultry keeping, all about eggs, equine issues and Grow Your Own to how to grow giant Veg!
She still writes for a number of countryside and gardening magazines, and has over the decades contributed to the likes of NFU Countryside, Grow Your Own, Amateur Gardening, as well as Poultry World, Your Chickens and Your Pigs.
Having worked as a PR Consultant for very many years, she has had the pleasure of working with Marshalls, Suttons/Dobies and Kings Seeds, for whom she project managed an award winning stand at RHS Chelsea (The subject of one of her entertaining talks)
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