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Press Releases, Articles, Thoughts and DoodlesBird Flu part 2 – Environmental Enrichment – Happy Penned Hens!
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...
read moreBird Flu Part 1 – How do I keep my hens healthy in lockdown?
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 highly...
read moreWhere does my food come from?
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 arguments...
read moreNational Poultry Show 2019
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...
read moreShould we hatch chicks in the classroom?
Hatching chicks in school classrooms is an incredible experience for the whole school, but needs to be done with the welfare of the birds as its highest priory. Here we summarise why EGGucation does just that to provide a truly ETHICAL schools hatching service
read moreConservation In The Classroom Vol 3 – Autosexing Breeds
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...
read moreWhy do we show our birds – National Poultry Championships 2017
Why do we show our birds? Passion That’s it in a nutshell. Job done. But really...If you believe in what you are doing and the breeds that you keep, you want to make sure they are the best they can be. There is no better way than comparing them to the best that other...
read moreConservation In The Classroom Vol II – Croad Langshan
Croad Langshan - big beautiful birds... So. Croad Langshan. The only thing they have in common with the Andalusian Bantam, the subject of our last blog, is that they are chickens and they are on the Rare Breed Survival Trust watch list! So how did these huge majestic...
read moreConservation In The Classroom Vol:1 Andalusian Bantam
EGGciting new birds at Eggucation HQ We hope it’s apparent that the birds behind your schools hatching experience are a real passion for us here at Eggucation. I can see their pens as I type. We have invested heavily in new sheds and runs this year, each breed now...
read moreBroody Vs Incubator
Incubator Vs Broody…. As we are already looking forward to next years schools hatching I was reading on a Facebook Poultry group about opinions on how everyone had found their hatching season - Broody Vs Incubator - so I thought I might pen a few words on my take on...
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