Real birds, real garden, no expertise assumed.
A family, 26 birds and two dogs who think they help. We film what happens and write down what we learn.
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Guides
Keeping chickens through a British winter
Frozen water, mud, and why heating the coop is the one thing not to do.
02Before you get free range chickens, read this
The honest list of everything nobody mentions until after you have bought the coop.
03Quail or chickens? How to pick your first birds
Two very different birds, and the honest case for each of them.
04What backyard chickens actually cost
Real numbers, including the ones people leave out of the cheerful blog posts.
05Our first year: what we would tell ourselves
Twelve months of mistakes, arranged helpfully in the order you will make them.
06Quail 101 — the complete guide
Everything we know about coturnix quail, from hutch to first egg.
07Setting up an incubator for quail eggs
Temperature, humidity, turning, and why the thermometer in the box is lying to you.
08From egg to adult quail: the whole journey
The seven-week arc, and what needs to happen at each stage.
We film all of this as we go
Every guide here started as a video — the hatches, the mistakes, the birds behaving badly. New ones most weeks.
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