Learn how to keep chickens in your back garden or small holding. The course covers:

Things to think about - Legal and practical issues, how many chickens, do you need a cockerel?

Equipment and Houses - Basic equipment for chicken keeping, and the different types of chicken houses, including perches, next boxes and pop holes.

Runs and Predators - How to protect your chickens from predators and the different types of chicken runs.

Bedding and Enrichment - What's the best type of bedding from e.g. newspaper, straw, wood shavings, sand. Enrichment for your chickens - how to keep them happy and entertained.

Feeding - The different types of chicken feed and amounts of feed required.

Routines - The daily, weekly, monthly routines when keeping chickens.

Health and Wellbeing - Keeping your chickens healthy and the main health issues such as feather pecking.

Choosing Chickens - The different types of chicken breeds available, and also rescue and ex-battery chickens.

Handling and Settling In - How to handle chickens and settle them into a new environment.

Eggs and Laying - How many eggs can you expect, how long do chickens lay for.

The course is delivered by Mudchute Farm Manager - Tom Davis, and is ideal if you are starting out with chicken keeping.