Chicken School offers easy to understand, hands on training, tailored to suit your needs:

Val prides herself in knowing that existing and future chicken keepers complete the course happy, contented and armed with knowledge, helping them on their happy road to keeping healthy chickens in their back garden. The course will give you the necessary knowledge to carry out preventative methods to stop problems arising and equip you with the knowledge should a problem occur.

The course is tailored to suit you based on your current knowledge and experience.


Course Content

• The Benefits & Rewards of Keeping Chickens
• Basic Chicken Needs
• Their Welfare Requirements
• Every Day Care, Weekly Care, Monthly / Quarterly Care
• Your New Arrivals what to do to settle them in
• Signs of Health
• The Ease of Keeping Chickens

• Giving you an understanding of the importance of choosing a particular breed that is best suited to you and your environment
• Suitable Housing, Housing Checklist, Different Housing Available
• The Run
• Training
• Your First Eggs
• How to Handle Your Chickens
• Definition of Chicken Ages
• The Cost of Keeping Chickens
• Settling Them into Their New Home
• Cockerels
• Introducing New Chickens
• Food, Water, Supplements & Medication
• The Pecking Order – The Top Chick
• Weather Precautions, Winter & Summer
• Moulting
• Dust baths
• External & Internal Parasites
• Identification of Droppings
• Predators
• A Broody Hen, The Signs & Breaking a Broody
• Flying Hens, Wing Clipping
• And More……


Training Available at Your Premises or Come to The Chicken School & See For Yourself.

Information Booklet Available to Use as a Reference.

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