Keeping the poultry flock going by Alan Thompson and Frank Sykes
Our egg supplies depend on the general farmer and backyarder. The general farmer is in a particularly favourable position to produce eggs as not only has he a certain amount of surplus grain and roots but the laying flock improve the land. There are not, however, many farmers who make full use of the 'folded' hen for adding to the fertility of their pasture. In this talk Alan Thompson , well known in small poultry-keeping circles, will discuss with Frank Sykes , a Wiltshire farmer, who folds up to 10,000 hens on the Downs, how a farm poultry unit could be started and how to make the best use of waste.