Is Breeding or Hatching Chickens for Me?
English Country Life
- Organisation:
- English Country Life
- Regions:
- Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire, Leicestershire
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £120 plus 45p per mile if more than 25 miles
- Category:
- Nature
- Updated:
- 22nd April 2024
- Tagged:
- Chickens | #Chickenkeeping | Self Sufficiency | Smallholding
The talk is designed to provide all the information anyone needs to decide if hatching chickens is something they want to do and what method to use. The talk covers:
- Our background in breeding & hatching
- Why consider breeding or hatching instead of buying point of lay hens
- The elephant in the room: cockerels and options to deal with them
- How to choose between breeding from your own flock OR buying in fertilised eggs
- How to choose between incubating with a broody hen or an incubator
- Being prepared for what may go wrong
About English Country Life
We are Hugh and Fiona - the modern “Tom and Barbara” and live “The Good Life” in Lincolnshire.
We grow our own fruit and vegetables, rear chickens, cook on wood and even making our own soap!
We are passionate about self-sufficiency and offer a range of light-hearted and engaging talks on the subject including an introduction to the topic with a little bit of everything and more in depth talks on subjects such as gardening, chicken keeping and food preserving – but always with the emphasis on fun!
To help spread the word on self-sufficiency, we write regular columns for magazines such as Country Smallholder and Practical Poultry and have a strong online presence including;
• A successful YouTube channel with 60k+ subscribers (https://www.youtube.com/englishcountrylife)
• A large social media following including Instagram with 155k+ followers across 2 accounts (https://www.instagram.com/engcountrylife & https://www.instagram.com/theflooflady/)
We put great energy into delivering talks in an engaging and entertaining way. We love to bring along fascinating plants, interesting equipment and even unusual foods for people to experience. We are conversational in our style, bringing our audiences along with us with excellent feedback from our previous engagements. As we have built a name digitally, we can both deliver talks in person using our own equipment, or virtually using Google Meets
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