About/Bio
My Name is Neil Armitage. I hope you like this site, I do have a feedback form if you would like to respond.
I grew up living in Africa and came back to England in the early 1990's to further my education.
I currently live in Yorkshire with a very understanding wife and work for a conservation charity called the National Trust.
I have kept poultry for more years than I care to remember including Guinea Fowl, Ducks and Turkeys in addition to around 300 chickens from 22 different breeds.
I regularly attend poultry shows and have successfully shown both birds and eggs.
I attend industry events whenever I can to help me stay abreast of the current commercial trends.
I don't receive any sponsorship or accept third party content on the website, nor do I accept paid links or products to review although I do publish a list of the products I use myself. I do use display advertising to help with the costs of running the site.
I love to try new things out and below is the result of a thirty day experiment into egg yolk colour.
My hens are kept in 6 and a half acres of fantastic Yorkshire countryside and I am a firm believer in things being allowed to roam free. I also have a large allotment and grow a lot of my own food.
The Barnevelder was my first breed and I successfully bred Silver laced Barnevelders in both the large fowl and bantam.
Over the years I've seen and made a great many mistakes with chickens and essentially that is what drives me to write about poultry. It isn't after all my skills with the pen!
Below: I like to film chickens in detail, here is my Rosecomb bantam from the Great Yorkshire show.
I also raise La Bresse Gauloise, a heritage meat bird with a long history. I have kept them for around 10 years now.
I am also very lucky to have a science background and be married to a Chemistry Teacher and have access to some scientific equipment to help with my research into chickens.
This is an analytical balance accurate to the ten thousandth of a gram. This Wyandotte bantam hackle feather is just 119 ten thousandths of a gram.
I have also been doing some research into how much calcium is absorbed by the chick from the shell during incubation.
Contact Me:
By far the best way to contact me is by email - webmaster@clucking.net.
I host a resources group on LinkedIn where I share quality poultry resources - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12678637/
Alternatively you can reach out to me on twitter - https://twitter.com/themuttsknutts or @themuttsknutts.
Our Pinterest pages - https://www.pinterest.co.uk/neil0armitage/
Out YouTube channel. - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb3oqaTPzOZbillU4J2Duzg
Some of our pictures, images and video are available under creative commons licencing - https://www.flickr.com/people/96919536@N06/
About Me:
I raise rare breed hens in Yorkshire, mostly Barnevelders and these days only to order.
Hatching eggs are posted to UK postcodes and some EU countries.
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All the Images you see in these pages are of my own birds unless labelled otherwise.
Find Me:
We are located in Steeton, West Yorks, BD206NX.
Please note we are not a shop and all visits and collections are by appointment only.