Bird Flu part 2 – Environmental Enrichment – Happy Penned Hens!

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So you have worked out how to keep your hens under the correct cover as specified by APHA (see previous blog). But your ladies are used to having free range of your garden/farm/yard/kitchen/living room (it happens!)! How are you going to keep them happy? Boredom...

Bird Flu Part 1 – How do I keep my hens healthy in lockdown?

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Avian influenza is with us again.  From 00:01 hours on Monday 29th November all our poultry is back in lockdown….. APHA (Animal & Plant Health Authority) outbreak alerts have been pinging into my phone with alarming regularity – all proving to be...

Where does my food come from?

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What can we learn from watching a chick hatch? Part 1 Where does my food come from?  Deb Howe – Chief Chicken Herder 10th January 2020 There has been much debate circling the issues of climate change and the role played by our diet. Strong and passionate...

National Poultry Show 2019

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SHOW RESULTS Classroom Chicks Do It Again Deb Howe, Head Honcho 05 December 2019 The results are in…There is a whole heap of passion for our rare breeds here at Eggucation. ALL the chicks that hatch in one of our programmes come from birds, that the individual...

Should we hatch chicks in the classroom?

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Should we hatch in our classroom?   There has recently, quite rightly, been some high profile media coverage regarding the poor welfare of some chicks from a school hatching project using another provider. We would like to stress yet again that this was nothing...

Conservation In The Classroom Vol 3 – Autosexing Breeds

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Here at Eggucation we not only LOVE the work we do with our schools hatching programmes. We love the engagement and learning that take place based around the children’s experience of hatching chicks in their classroom. But we also think its vital that the chicks...