BBC Gardeners' World Live 2013

I've been working on the PoultryTalk stand at BBC Gardeners' World Live and Good Food Show at the NEC this week - has been really good!

Pure breed eggs on display from The Rainbow Egg Company:

We spent HOURS setting the stand up only to come in the next morning to find the roof had leaked all over it so had to move it all in half an hour, but other than that we've had a great week.

I did 4 Chicken Keeping for Beginners talks on the stand everyday which were really well attended, as well as a few talks in the VIP area.

I took Mabel and Doris the Pekins with me and we had a table full of chicks for people to touch and see; I think we were the most photographed stand at the exhibition!

We also revealed #ChickenWall at the show - a 4 x 2 metre long display with 60 photos of pure breed poultry in the UK!

It was great to be able to show people the variation in size, breeds and the different uses for poultry!

We had a PetzPodz animal house on display to show people different types of housing available

...as well as a more traditional wooden ark (with Mabel + Doris on top) and an Omlet Eglu in the background!

Dorothy + chicks...

Meet Dr Chicken...

Thats mee! :P

I wrote a feature for the June edition of Your Chickens magazine and there is is!
Have had lots of tweets and messages saying people like it, so hope they do! :)

Broody: Hatch 8 with Dorothy

Its hatching time again! :)
Dorothy, the Red Pekin I bought at the National has gone broody so I got 6 hatching eggs for her from Tasha.
A Speckled Sussex x Araucana and 5 Pekins... 2 Lavender (from Quigleys girls!), 2 Mille Fleur and a Cuckoo.

Popped a TubTrug full of bedding and the 6 eggs into a broody coop and she jumped straight back on them!

Day 0 ... due to hatch the weekend of 4th May!

Lavender Pekin pullets

Just a photo of my Lavender Pekin growers I hatched from my lot over the Summer...

They're living in a hutch in the greenhouse for now until they're old enough to go in the eglu and integrate with the others!

New Pekin Pullets

I got 2 new Pekin pullets from The National sales pens earlier! :)

Wanted some more after my pekin chicks died but wasn't actively looking.
Didn't have time to look at the sales pens yesterday so went over earlier today expecting them all to be cockerels, and there were these 2 for sale...

... so I had to buy them! :P

I did have to resist the Chocolate Partridge Wyandotte pullet, even though Mother wanted her!

Going to call them Dorothy (Red) and Annie (Pyle/Gingery one!) :)