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Chicken Keeping Training Courses

Sue Russell Smallholder

Courses Run By: Sue
Website: www.gardenfarming.org
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Tel: 01964 527907
Location: Nr. Hornsea - East Riding of Yorkshire
Please contact for details of dates and availability

Experience with chickens:

Formerly an agricultural college tutor and on farm assessor with one of the country's top land based colleges, a full scale mixed farmer, on farm advisor and self sufficiency lifestyle follower of almost 25 years in both upland mountainous and lowland situations.

I now deliver a range of Courses on self sufficient living and becoming a Smallholder from my own self-sufficient rural Smallholding home on the coast of East Yorkshire.

These days I keep hens & bantams only for their eggs (and entertainment!) but have previously kept both chickens and geese for meat also.

Over the years I've kept many different breeds and types of chickens in all the possible housing and free range maintenance systems and I've now settled on the system that works best for me, fulfils the hens needs by keeping them healthy, happy, stimulated and safe plus encourages good egg productivity.

I'll both explain and show you HOW to keep and handle your 'happy & healthy' hens and explain WHY this instruction works and WHAT is likely to happen if you don't follow the advice.

You can ask as many questions as you like and having taught agriculture to teenagers at college there is nothing you can ask that I will think silly or embarrassing!

You can either attend a (Short) 3 hour dedicated Hen Keeping Course OR purchase your very own Private Bespoke Full Day Course where you can include other areas that interest you from: Making your own yummy sausages, Pig Keeping, Smallholder Livestock

Chicken Keeping Courses Information

Three hours dedicated to keeping healthy, happy and productive domestic hens. If you are considering acquiring hens for family egg production and/or as gardener’s companions and pets OR if you’ve already got chickens and feel you lack knowledge or are experiencing difficulties, then this short course is just perfect for you:

We’ll cover all aspects of acquiring hens for family egg production.
Signs of health and illness – how to handle hens without stress.
Feeding & maintenance issues including feeding household scraps etc.
Housing systems & confinement verses free range living?
Cockerels – necessary or nuisance?
Discouraging vermin, predators and controlling contamination risks.
Keeping chickens and maintaining happy neighbour relations!

Course commences 10a.m. and concludes approx. 1p.m. – purchase price is £39.95 per person and includes tea or coffee with home baked cookies.

Course delivery is mixture of practical demonstration, discussion and participation outdoors involving my own hens and bantams plus some theoretical delivery and discussion in the comfort of my own home with a cup of tea or coffee and home baked cookies – Maximum course attendance 4 clients.

For more details please go to our website www.gardenfarming.org

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