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Written from our own garden

Everything here comes from birds we actually keep. Where we got it wrong the first time, we've said so.

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01

Keeping Brahma chickens

The gentle giants of the chicken world, and what they need that smaller breeds do not.

6 min
02

Introducing new chickens to an established flock

The quarantine, the see-but-do-not-touch week, and the fights.

6 min
03

Too many roosters: spotting it and fixing it

What goes wrong when the ratio tips, and the options when it does.

6 min
Ethel's Farm

A family, a garden, and rather too many birds. We film what happens and write down what we learn.

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Guides

  • Keeping chickens through a British winter
  • Before you get free range chickens, read this
  • Quail or chickens? How to pick your first birds
  • What backyard chickens actually cost
  • Our first year: what we would tell ourselves
  • Quail 101 — the complete guide
  • All guides →

Tools

  • Incubation calculator
  • Coop & run size calculator
  • Feed & running cost calculator
  • Which chicken breed suits you?
  • Brooder temperature schedule

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