When the cold weather comes in you will find that your chickens do not like to drink icy cold water. Winter chickens are best kept happy with a change of water more than once in a day. It is essential that a chicken has some cool fresh air due to them giving off moisture via [...]

If you are thinking of keeping chickens in a garden or back yard, you will need to keep your flock in a stationary henhouse. A roof is important when you are caring for your chickens in a chicken run as a protection from hot or cold weather. A chicken run cover for your chicken coop [...]

More and more people living in rural areas have decided to have chickens in their gardens. If you are thinking you would like to keep chickens as a pet you will need to confirm with your local council of their rules and regulations on the number of chickens you are allowed. The next step is [...]

If you are a modern city chicken hobbyist, you will know the value of your feathered friends. They are to you just as valuable as a dog or a cat may be to someone else. For that reason all chicken owners want only the best for their chicks. One of those things is a chicken [...]

Chickens have become popular pets, even in cities in our modern times. Keeping birds of all kinds has become one of the leading pet hobbies around. Keeping chickens as pets is vastly different from keeping chickens on farms. People place far more value on pet chickens than they do on farm chickens. This is where [...]

When buying chicken coops, it is always useful to consider how often the coop will be used. For instance, in hot weather, if there is not much natural shade around, your chickens will shelter inside the coop. Equally, in wet weather, your chickens will need somewhere to stay dry and during the winter when there [...]

Chicken keeping is now one of the fastest growing hobbies in the UK.  One reason is that chickens make lovely and placid family pets as well as representing a major potential saving on the housekeeping budget. Keeping chickens is also profitable because believe it or not, each chicken you keep (after feeding) can save you [...]

Did you know that around 855 million chickens are reared just for their meat in the UK each year and that the majority of these chickens are reared to standards the RSPCA believes are unacceptably low.  There are also 29 million laying hens bred for their eggs in the UK. Many people have watched Jamie [...]

Ideas-4-pets are constantly asked how big a chicken coop should be and how much space a chicken needs to be comfortable and healthy. There are no strict guidelines laid down at the present time so it is always difficult to give such advise.  We tend to give the guidelines of the supplier and also the guidelines [...]

A customer rang me at ideas-4-pets the other day and said he was wanting to keep a few chickens as he’d seen the programmes on TV advocating fresh eggs and the welfare of chickens and he wanted to teach his son some responsibilities involved in pet owning without having to invest in a dog or cat. I advised him [...]