What are YOU doing in 2011 to make your life more sustainable?

Domestic poultry keeping can fit in well in gardens, smallholdings, allotments etc., like growing your own fruit and veg, as long as you get the right advice and equipment.
Birds are easy to keep, great fun, and fulfilling; but are easy to abuse and neglect by ignorance.
Our websites are full of experienced advice, from decades of breeding and rearing, as well as tried & tested, reliable, products for the domestic environment.
We look forward to helping you get more out of your garden or smallholding, and your birds, for a fulfilling 2011.
Between 5th and 13th February inclusive we will be on holiday..... well we are still here looking after livestock and chilling out, but the shop, plant centre etc is closed. If you need something urgently, please email. Back to normal on Monday 15th.
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Time to Restore our Utility Poultry (TROUP)in the U.K.
My challenge to every poultry and waterfowl keeper and breeder however small is : Your birds are part of the national poultry flock and could be vital in improving stocks in the future. Whenever you breed you are playing a part in which direction they breed goes. WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN SOME WAY OF RECORDING YOUR BIRDS PRODUCTIVITY? - CLICK HERE

Hopefully there are a great number of people interested in having birds in their backgarden or smallholding that have the features and productivity of days gone by. A few enthusiastic folk in the United Kingdom have begun chatting to each other and trying to work out ways to increase our knowledge of the birds in the country and the skills from the old days that where used to create the best birds. We will be hoping over the next years to do our small part.

The finances of keeping large numbers of one breed are probably beyond reach now. In the past people like Mr Clem Shaw (White Wyandotte) would have kept 3 - 5000 birds; all tagged and trap nested so that for each egg that hatched they could tell who its parents were and their prodcutivity - coupled with records of what each chick turned out like meant that very intensive control and selection was possible. That took many man hours and I would doubt if that work will be emulated again.

Here at Kintaline, like most new places we know, we have decided to have a range of breeds - all utility stock - so we can best provide the needs of our customers. We can only have relatively few birdsof each breed -(although more than those places that have lots of breeds)- but all of us that are involved in the future of utility poultry will now be reliant on there being a number of people doing the same as us so that nationally there will be a wide enough quality gene pool.

On this website it would be great to explore the history of each breed in this country - what the best lines have been and what the characteristics were that the great breeders looked for.

Supporters of Utility Poultry
time to restore our utility poultry
If you would like to be included here please contact Jill: supporters@utilitypoultry.co.uk for terms

utility breeds of chickens
The breeds of chickens we have here at Kintaline
utility breeds of ducks
The breeds of Domestic Ducks we have here at Kintaline
We are also open to the public and welcome visitors

useful chicken and duck houses

UTILITY BREEDS: chickens - including old native breeds
MID BROWN EGGS Rhode Island Red White Wyandotte Barred Rock
WHITE EGGS White leghorn Black / Brown leghorn Minorca
DARK EGGS Marans welsumer - Partridge welsumer - Duckwing
BLUE EGGS: Araucana Cream legbar
DUAL PURPOSE Light Sussex Orpington - Buff Orpington - Blue
OLD BREEDS Scots Grey Scots Dumpy Dorking

We are constantly updating and adding to this site
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Tim and Jill Bowis
Kintaline Mill Farm, Benderloch, OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
01631 720223


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