~About Me~
My name is Val,
being a lover of gardening, nature and all creatures great and small, I always
wanted to keep hens. My first experience of hen keeping was moving to a house
with a garden; many years ago. I tried very hard to gain the necessary
experience by reading as many books as possible, but learning was quite
difficult (as the books contradicted each other) and nothing beats hands on
experience, which you can not get until you attend a course or have your
chickens.
After 12 years down the road and having had several breeds of hens and ducks to this day I still find my girls amusing, with current production methods I am pleased to have my own produce as well as the bugs they eat from the garden and the manure for my compost heap, which in turn feeds my vegetables.
Having experienced the steep learning curve required to keep chickens I decided to help others understand the expensive and distressing pitfalls; so Chicken School was created. Our mission is to show people how chicken keeping works in the back garden, with animal welfare and simplicity for the owner paramount.
Chicken School offers a Group Chicken Keeping Course to meet like minded people or 1-2-1 Chicken Keeping Courses for families etc, (we actively encourage the whole household to attend); the 33 page free information booklet covers all items discussed and compliments this course. I have run courses for the novice and experienced chicken keeper(s). I also offer a bespoke course for new chicken keepers at organisations and a consultancy service to existing keepers. We also offer an egg hatching exercise for schools and organisations within a 15 mile radius.
I also
quickly learnt how important purchasing the correct chicken coop is,
relying on stockist to sell me a satisfactory product appeared a real
task, after going through several chicken coops and wasting a lot of
money, I decided to design and manufacture my own coop, with animal
welfare and user friendly properties paramount. This is available for
people on my courses to see how it works and understand its useful
features to either purchase or understand the important qualities to
look for when purchasing a coop.
The Chicken School course and free information booklet will help you on your road to learning about chickens and the joy they can bring to the back yard chicken keeper. Designed to assist the novice and existing chicken keeper with everyday chicken requirements to ensure happy, healthy pets and owner satisfaction.
