Rooster Booster links to other sites of interest
Below are some links which will take you to other sites relating to Poultry, farming or the countryside. If you have a site or know of other sites that may interest readers, e-mail the name and web address to me and I will consider adding it to the list.
Magazines and Books
- Broad Leys Publishing
- Broad Leys Book and Gold Cockerel Books. - Poultry and Smallholding Books specialists in books for smallholders, homesteaders, poultry keepers and organic gardeners
- Cavalier Books Cavalier Books
- Publishers of a variety of paperbacks including HENS IN THE GARDEN, EGGS IN THE KITCHEN and BEST HENS FOR YOU Choosing Breeds for the Garden. Also Pullein-Thompson Pony Books, Animal Stories, Cook Books, and military books.
- Your Chickens Magazine
- First Pasture online Bookstore offering hundreds of titles on all aspects of farming, equestrianism and country life and a free online magazine.
- www.firstpasture.co.uk
- First Pasture online Bookstore offering hundreds of titles on all aspects of farming, equestrianism and country life and a free online magazine.
- www.countrysmallholding.com
- What's on in the countryside? Books and videos, on-line ordering and more.
- www.smallholder.co.uk
- Smallholder for practical small farming
- Farmers weekly
- Farmers weekly interactive
- www.farmingmonthly.co.uk/
- Farming Monthly National magazine.
Poultry related
- Legbars of Broadway
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If you’re looking for some garden hens, or if you are a farmer or smallholders, starting or running existing egg production businesses.
Our chicks are reared to exacting standards, with the aim of producing strong, vigorous hens which will lay lots of beautiful eggs, and give many years of pleasure to their owners. - www.framebow.co.uk
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We have a selection of modern pet housing and poultry coops suitable for the swankiest chicks and the fanciest of fowl. A traditional range of hen houses, catering for the practical poultry enthusiast or backyard chicken keeper and also providing poultry housing to the smallholder or serious poultry-man.
All pet housing is made from timber which is from a sustainable source and has undergone an organic pressure treatment process. - www.wylyevalleychickens.co.uk
- Whether you want something pretty to look at, some interesting and amusing pets, a few hens at the bottom of the garden to supply you with eggs, or are keen on traditional breeds of poultry, Dorset Rare Breeds can help you.
- British Free Range Egg Producers Association
- A web resource for free range egg producers containing information on Free Range layers, organics and chicken welfare.
- http://www.allandoopheasantry.com /
- Breeders of Ornamental Pheasants in Southwest Scotland.
General
- www.fancyfeedcompany.co.uk
- The Fancy Feed Company is family owned and run and dedicated to producing well balanced, nutritious animal and poultry feeds from natural ingredients.
- www.agrisellex.co.uk
- Electric Fencing and Animal Husbandry products. A full range of Electric Fencing, Horse Clippers, Animal Husbandry and Poultry products
- www.marriagefeeds.co.uk
- An independant family milling business which manufactures a comprehensive range of quailty animal feeds.
- North Yorkshire Smallholders Society
- We are a group set up to help the smallholders of North Yorkshire and the North of England.
- Allotment & Vegetable Gardening
- Allotment & Vegetable Gardening, passing on experiences to help and encourage others who enjoy growing vegetables and herbs.
- http://www.a1abrasives.co.uk/
- A1 Abrasives Ltd specialises in supplying a full programme of abrasives and polishing products for a wide range of industries. The company offers full technical back up, very competitive prices and can source any abrasive or related product.
- www.tasteefarmshop.co.uk
- A farming family who produce quality lamb on a National Trust farm in East Lincolnshire.
- www.sendacow.org.uk
- Send a Cow gives direct, Practical help to impoverished farmers in Africa, supporting them in their efforts to find lasting solutions to the problems of poverty and malnutrition. To find out more about their work visit www.sendacow.org.uk