Learn Pammy's 'Positive Health Management System' for keeping hens happy, healthy and stress free.
In 2 parts (videos totalling 57 min) with course notes to download
Suitable for:
Anyone seeking a wholistic approach to hen health and husbandry: from beginners looking to rescue a couple of ex-battery layers, to existing backyard hen keepers, or smallholders wanting to sell local eggs.
Course Leader: Organic poultry farmer, River Cottage teacher and ‘Chicken Whisperer’, Pammy Riggs, co-author of Keeping Chickens for Dummies.
Guest Teacher: Wholistic veterinary surgeon Chris Aukland
What you'll learn:
Pammy’s long standing belief in being guided by the hens’ own natural and instinctive traits informs every aspect of her hen husbandry. Whether you are keeping hens as pets or part of a profitable smallholding venture, you will learn a fresh new approach to the basics, where and why stress points appear during the hen life cycle, and how to alleviate them using natural methods. Pammy’s system, taught with confidence and humour, will ensure your hens are kept in vibrant good health.
By the end of this course, you will be able to confidently:
- Select the optimum site, housing, feed and bedding
- Choose hens to suit your needs
- Understand the needs of your hens, both physical and emotional
- Establish good routine management and hen husbandry
- Prevent and treat common ailments using a natural health approach, ie avoiding synthetic drugs and toxic inputs
- Harvest eggs of superior quality and freshness and sell the surplus (should you wish to)