The Chicken House Blog

The rearing house we use throughout the entire rearing period is our Lenham 705.

Be it roast spuds or roast chicken Cindy and I have always been very comfortable with the idea of producing our own feed. Periodically over the past thirty years we raised meat birds from day olds to main course.

Thanks to the spell casting prowess of Cindy ( see, I married a witch). The field that was adjacent to our garden was now part of the garden of No3 Forsham Cottages. We paid way over the odds for what on paper was agricultural land. But we were not […]

You could class me as a bit of a ‘saddo’. Some folks collect train numbers others study old bus timetables. But I have a fascination with old poultry and waterfowl housing, which as far as I know is a club of one ……… me .

Cindy & I are born and bred Kentish, she from High Halden and me from Woodchurch (four miles apart). I am not sure if we are “Men of Kent” or “Kentish Men”, which has something to do with being born one side or other of the river Medway, apparently to some folk’s that […]

Way back when King Arthur held court, I’m talking Scargill here, not him with the round table. I had an affair … with Felicity Kendle. To be fair she didn’t know about the affair, but my wife did.

Its a family thing; one problem though Kay wanted to name them !!!! which I did not think was such a great idea so i tryed my best tactic;