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So today, so we're going to leave the dogs and cats, which is good.

And we're going to talk to Joe Headley.

Joe Headley is one of our lecturers here at the Royal Vet College,

and she is going to talk to us today about care of our backyard chickens. So I think, especially what I envisage is that it's not something necessarily that I saw a lot when I was in practice,

but I know that people are keeping more and more, like,

chickens in their homes, even in urban areas, as compared to, like, previously.

Yeah, it's definitely increasing, and we see a lot around London. I'd say there's two types of

chicken owners. One, are very serious about getting chickens for showing.

They've got them from breeders from quite a young age.

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