Hen Stories
Below you can find stories that the HenPower Hensioners have compiled about hen keeping from the war years until now. Use the category filters to look at specific stories.
- Accidents (61)
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- Breeder (1)
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- Catching And Cooking (15)
- Cats (1)
- Characteristics (2)
- Chicken Adoption (1)
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- Chicken Memories (3)
- Chickens And Dogs (5)
- Chicks (6)
- Childhood (31)
- Children (11)
- Christmas (6)
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- Cooking (7)
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- Dairy Farming (1)
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- Eggs (33)
- Ex Batteries (3)
- Family (50)
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- Farm Life (13)
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- Feisty Fowl (2)
- Fight (1)
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- Food (14)
- Foot Mouth (1)
- Fowl Fiascos (14)
- Fox Attacks (1)
- Free Range (2)
- Friendly Fowl (19)
- Funny Fowl (2)
- Games (1)
- Gateshead (4)
- Geese (1)
- Generations (1)
- Great Escapes (14)
- Hatching (6)
- Heads (2)
- Health (2)
- Helping (1)
- Hen Feed (1)
- Hen History (1)
- Hen Houses (9)
- Hen Welfare (1)
- Henployment (6)
- Hill Farmer (1)
- Hobby (12)
- Home Remedies (1)
- Incubators (4)
- Innards And Out (1)
- Judging (6)
- Lay Experts (20)
- Laying (1)
- Mischief (17)
- Modernisation (1)
- Morpeth (1)
- Mr Fox (6)
- Names (12)
- Necking (5)
- Newcastle (1)
- North Tyneside (1)
- Northumberland (1)
- Observing (2)
- Online (1)
- Pampered Poultry (1)
- Pecking (7)
- Pecking Stories (1)
- Pensioners (1)
- Personalities (12)
- Petting Farm (1)
- Plucking (1)
- Plucky Poultry (26)
- Poorly Poultry (4)
- Poultry Club (1)
- Poultry Pals (5)
- Poultry Parents (1)
- Poultry Passing (3)
- Poultry Passing On (2)
- Poultry Pets (38)
- Poultry Shows (17)
- Prizes (2)
- Proffesionals (1)
- Rationing (6)
- Rehoming (1)
- Relaxation (1)
- Rescue (11)
- Routine (1)
- Rural Life (2)
- School (1)
- Self Sufficiency (12)
- Selling (2)
- Set Ups (1)
- Showing (10)
- Small Holding (1)
- Social (2)
- Standards (5)
- Stockton (4)
- Style (1)
- Sustainability (18)
- Therapeutic (1)
- War Years (10)
- Wellbeing (1)
- Wing Clipping (1)
- Winning (1)
- Wish Bones (1)
- Working With Poultry (1)
- Yorkshire (1)
- Younger Generation (1)
9th March 2015 12:18
Su Norris
My chicken story is when I started caring for my elderly mum I needed a realise for me and hubby some where we could do our thing our hobby. Being tied to the house and caring we need a release started with 7 chickens 4 years ago still have 6 of the original ones plus the daughter of the one we lost, come Saturday we will have 61 a wonderful mum still with us and a happy family.
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