Chickens
Letters: Our churches bring comfort – they must reopen
Is ‘the Science’ scientific? Sir: I hope that those in the highest places will have read and will act upon…
Who needs a chicken labelled ‘cook before eating’?
I was saying the other week that my new hearing aids had come with a warning not to swallow their…
The fox that killed my chickens depressed me more than 250,000 tsunami deaths
It is hard to know how a tragedy is going to move a person who is not directly affected by…
What my chickens need is a dog
Of the nine chickens I used to keep here in Northamptonshire only one survived the summer, and it was the…
Freedom for my chickens! All it took was a man with a gun
If I haven’t mentioned my poultry for a while, it’s because the subject has been too depressing. I had been…
Would the urine of an eight-year-old protect my chickens?
I was predicting in a recent column that the arrival of spring would be bad news for my poultry, and…
Our first kills of spring
The arrival of spring is not an unmitigated joy. The warmth is nice, of course, as are the fresh leaves…
A dog mess or two is not too high a price to pay for an owner’s happiness
A month ago I was reporting complacently that peace and calm had returned to Stoke Park after a series of…
Good news from Alexander Chancellor’s menagerie
There is at last good news to report on the poultry front. In the past, when I have mentioned my…
