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Welcome to GrowCook Eat Arrange, the podcast with myself, Arthur Parkinson and my good friend Sarah Raven.

Today Sarah is off, but I'm joined by a fellow poultry fancier.

Sabina Richardson runs Feather and Egg, an incredible poultry breeding company where Sabina is rearing hundreds, if not thousands,

of chicks and ducklings of pure breeds and rare breeds for sale. And they're all reared beautifully

outside in these wonderful grassy pens. And if you follow Sabina on her Instagram account

and egg, you'll see that she is mother hen, not only to her own adorable little tots, but also to weekly hatches of the most

beautiful and exotic looking chickens and ducks.

In this episode, we're really going to explore the breeds that Sabina really loves and recommends

for domestic keeping and why we should all be thinking about if we've got space and time

about keeping more rare and pure breeds of poultry. So Sabina, thank you for joining me today.

Thank you for inviting me. Pleasure. So I've followed you for a few years and you've been keeping poultry as a

business i think from 2014 is that right that's right yes yeah did it did it start off as kind of like a

backyard hobby how did it evolve into this huge array because i've visited you you've got

i think you've got about 50 different breeds of

hens and ducks haven't you that you keep and breed from. Did you just start out like most of us

just keeping a few hens? I did, yeah. So from a young child, I always kept many animals,

particularly horses and hens. Not so much ducks or waterfowl, but I just get a huge

amount of enjoyment out of spending time with them, caring for them. And so like many, we sort of

experimented with breeding from very small numbers. And it's escalated somewhat so over the years it started with

keeping them for purely the the taste of home-produced eggs is is just something else and then

really sort of getting an interest in specific breeds and then

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