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Unreasoned prejudices? I think not - have you done any research on what goes on beind the scenes at big animal hybrid breeding companies, as I have? By supporting any aspect of it, you are condoning what they are doing, not only to the environment and our health, but also to communities...

sorry! I'm back! pm'd you...

I think ex batts are just about the worst thing a backyardkeeper could get. At first, they produce more eggs than you can use. Then, once you are too attached to them to kill them, they don't lay many at all (but still eat the same). Then they start dropping off their perches for no apparent...

Of course i would say ixworths ;) but you have to go with your heart. If you really want to feed yourself 'utility' is the word you are looking for - you can find a list of utility breeders in the practical poultry magazine's utility breeder register. They keep egg records so you know what you...

Thanks but alnwick's a bit far for me to go - many 2nd hand book sellers use amazon and amazon is a big marketplace so I don't think prices will be toooo far out. If they are, I won't sell any. This isn't my job ;)

sorry no that book is not a first edition - it's a signed 1977 reprint - the only one I could find on amazon a few weeks ago was a signed first edition at £40 which is why I valued this at half of that, to take into account it not being a first edition, but still signed. I'm looking to sell the...

I have acquired a collection of beekeeping books, journals, magazines, newspaper clippings etc from a lifelong collector who recently passed away. I don't know the genre of bees that well so I've valued them according to amazon and/or ebay...then undercut that. This is very exciting and I don't...

Hi, I'm new and poultry is more my thing than bees. What people fail to realise with exbatts/buying hybrid pullets/buying table chicks is that they all come from what is essentially one huge company. Think of every argument in the book you like about hybrids being the only way possible for...