I’ve been told that a personal blog is the way to go if I want to communicate and share my enthusiasm for garden poultry keeping with lots of people. I have to say I feel a lot more at home talking to chickens and they always agree with me. I am sitting here at the moment waiting for a customer and looking out of my office window upon our picnic area. It is 6.40pm and the early autumn sun is going down in the sky and casting long shadows over the closely mown grass. There is an overgrown rose hedge on my right waiting for its autum tidy -up, but there are too many large rose hips on it yet and the birds will want to feed on those to help them prepare for winter. Remember those hips are full of vitamin C and a great boost to our wild friends diet. Further away from the window is a Rowan tree, bearing silver berries and then a contorted hazel bush. When the hazel nuts are ready for harvesting it will be a race between me and the squirrels to see who can get them first. It always seems that I lose. It’s now 7.20 and my customers have just left, my poetic spell has broken and my stomach thinks my throat has been cut. I’m off to get my supper, but before I go and now that I’ve got the hang of this blog thing, I promise to be back soon and to keep you informed of the highs and lows of life at Poultry Park.
Chris Greenwood
“I well remember, when at the age of 10, the thrill I had going to the railway station to collect a box containing 12 Rhode Island Red day old chicks. I reared them in a cardboard box with an electric light bulb underneath (for heat) and a mop head hanging in the box (for comfort)
55 years later, my methods for rearing have changed, but I still get a thrill collecting a new laid egg, or hatching a chicken in the incubator. When I stop getting that thrill I’ll pack it all in.
About 14 years ago, after a period of ill health my hobby became my full time occupation and Poultry Park was hatched.
My aim at Poultry Park is to produce a good quality bird, bred from utility strains, of traditional farmyard poultry. To this aim I have collected over the years, breeding birds that are true representatives of their breed in looks and have also retained the true productive qualities that are associated with each breed.
All the birds at Poultry Park are reared outside in grass runs in the traditional way and are fed on natural feedstuff’s.We do not go in for the numbers game, where lots of breeds are kept. We do go in for selective quality in the few breeds that we do keep.
For more information visit our web-site at www.poultrypark.com
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