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Chicken Breeds - A Guide To Chicken Breeds

When starting a new flock, you have to decide whether you want large chickens or bantams. Bantams are normally kept as pets or for show, while the larger breeds are commonly preferred by those with...

Chicken Eggs & Hen Laying - A Guide

How old are hens when they start laying eggs? Hens can start laying (called Pullets when they’re young) when they are about six months old. Those hatched very early in the spring will sometimes lay...

Chicken Food - A Guide to Feeding Chickens

What types of chicken feed are there available? Unlike many other animals, due to poultry consumption globally, the dietary requirements of chickens have been thoroughly researched and it has been ...

Parrot Food - A Guide To Feeding Parrots

There are thousands of parrot species in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and indigenous to many different environments, so It’s difficult to have a one-size-fits-all approach to feeding parrots....

Budgies, Cockatiels and Grass Parakeets - A Guide

Budgerigars Perhaps the most popular and familiar of the small parakeets, budgerigars are native of the dry, temperate grasslands in Australia where they gather in huge, noisy flocks. Budgies in th...

Hamster Food - A Guide To Feeding Hamsters

Pet hamsters are among the easiest small animals to feed, so the easiest thing to do is to buy the best quality hamster food mixes and augment the seed mixes with some fresh fruit and vegetables, a...

Roborovski & Chinese Hamsters - Our Guide

What is a Roborovski Hamster? A rarer dwarf hamster, the roborovski hamster, is less well known than the syrian, campbell and winter white hamsters, but its social nature and petite size have very ...

Winter White Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Winter White Hamsters? The dwarf winter white hamster, or phodophus sungorus in Latin, is originally from the grassy steppes of eastern Kazakhstan and southwestern Siberia. This hamster wa...

Campbell's Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Campbell's Hamsters? The second most popular hamster (after the Syrian hamster of course) is the dwarf Campbell's Russian hamster or phodophus campbelli in Latin. The Campbell's hamster is...

Syrian Hamsters - Our Guide

What are Syrian Hamsters? Syrian hamsters are found all the way from Romania and Bulgaria south-eastward through Syria, Turkey, Israel, the Caucasus and even parts of Iran. The colour of Syrian ham...

Tawny, Little and Barn Owls - A Guide

More likely to be heard rather than seen, owls become more active after dark feeding on a diet of small mammals, birds, rodents and invertebrates. It is possible to determine the diet of owls by ex...

Pigeons - A Guide to Pigeon Birds

Introduced and bred for sport, pheasants are game birds, whereas pigeons and doves have adapted well to living alongside people, although their presence is sometimes unwelcome. Large flocks of fera...

Magpies, Rooks, Ravens, Jackdaws, Starlings and Nightingales

Studies suggest that corvids, such as magpies, rooks and ravens, rank among the most intelligent of birds. Many display an instinctive desire to hoard food, such as acorns, to help sustain them thr...

Finches - A Guide to Finches

Finches feed mainly on seeds but, by adopting different feeding strategies, they can exploit a variety of food sources without competing with each other: Goldfinches, for example, eat small seeds w...

Robins, Sparrows, Dunnocks, Wrens, Tits & Blackbirds

Although sparrows, dunnocks and wrens commonly reside in gardens, these birds are not easily noticed because of their small stature. The dull-coloured plumage provides camouflage, blending in with ...

Swans, Ducks & Aquatic Birds - A Guide

Some birds are drawn to gardens with or near ponds and streams because of feeding opportunities, while others seek sanctuary from would-be predators in these surroundings. There is a great variety ...

How to feed and attract wild birds to your garden - Guide

Why feeding wild birds is important As more of the countryside is swallowed up by new housing and industrial developments, the natural habitats of many birds are being reduced or lost altogether. G...