News Archive

Once again we are delighted to be attending The Edible Garden Show from the 15th to 17th March at Stoneleigh Park.

Here are some of our top tips for keeping your poultry healthy through the cold spell.

The Smallholder Range continues to support the valuable work of the British Hen Welfare Trust with it’s Ex-Bats Range.

The Smallholder Range has launched its Natural Free Range Layers Cumble in convenient 5kg bags.

Once again we will be at the Royal Norfolk Show on stand 470, Avenue 16 to give you expert feeding advice.

Smallholder Range is delighted to announce the installation of solar panels to its Norfolk mill.

The Allen & Page stand will be at the Royal Cornwall Show from Thursday 7th to Saturday 9th June 2012, so come along and see us.

Smallholder Range, Natural Free Range Layers Pellets – New sack, same great feed and now with a free sample of Super Mixed Corn inside every bag.

Today is pancake day so make sure that when you're making up your batter you remember battery hens and go free range instead.

ADAS is inviting people to the first Defra-funded meetings for goat keepers designed to provide practical and technical advice to increase the health and welfare of the goat herd in England.

The British Hen Welfare Trust has issued an urgent plea to the public to re-home some hens for Christmas.

Results of a survey into the habits and preferences of 1700 chicken-keepers interviewed by the British Hen Welfare Trust, revealed that 85% of respondents don’t actually mind what colour their eggs are - indirect contrast to the usual preference for brown eggs.

This September the Soil Association is celebrating a month long festival of all things organic, with events taking place across the country.

The Smallholder Range has teamed up with Smallholder Magazine to present a series of informative fact sheets on a variety of subjects.

More than 26,000 people enjoyed a great weekend of livestock, farming heritage, dogs shows and flowers on the weekend of 21st and 22nd May, and The Smallholder Range was there to give out feeding advice too.

The Smallholder Range was proud to be at an event marking a major milestone in the British Hen Welfare Trust’s history. The hard working charity celebrated the re-homing of its 250,000th ex-battery hen on Saturday 16th April.

Easter is fast approaching and if you like to celebrate all things 'egg-cellent', why not take part in our 'Healthy Hens, Wonderful Eggs' Challenge?

We once more have a full calendar of events for this year and we will be taking The Smallholder Feed to some exciting shows around the country.

A new guide launched by The Smallholder Range answers many of the questions raised about keeping ex-battery hens.

Come and see The Smallholder Range and The Organic Feed Company at a brand new show – The Edible Garden Show.

The Smallholder Range is pleased to support Cotswold Chickens and is offering everyone attending a beginner's course a £3 voucher for poultry feed.

Following news of a potential risk of dioxin contamination in pig and poultry feed in Germany, The Smallholder Range would like to reassure customers that all feeds in the range are completely safe and free from dioxins - guaranteed.

Smallholders all over the country know that living off the land is alive and well, but a new TV series to celebrate the 35th anniversary of TV sitcom 'The Good Life' is raising awareness of suburban self-sufficiency once more.

Three lucky poultry keepers are celebrating after winning their very own luxury Forsham Poultry Arks in the Smallholder Range’s Golden Egg competition.

The first ever National Wool Week is taking place this week, (October 11-17). Celebrating all things woolen, from sheep to jumpers, Wool Week brings together a series of partnerships from manufacturing to retail and wool communities and from all across the UK.

A dry spring has resulted in a shortage of hay and when you factor in a shortage of carry-over stock because of a wet summer last year, hay prices are reportedly now between 20% and 40% higher than last year. Perhaps its time to make a back up plan?

Come and see the Smallholder Range at Norfolk's premier event.

Congratulations to Clive Bowell - winner of two tickets for the ‘All about Chickens’ course at the famous River Cottage in Devon. Clive is one of many who have found a golden egg hiding in their sack of Natural Free Range Layers Pellets, our claim line rings frequently as another lucky customer finds a Golden Egg containing a fabulous poultry prize.

Thousands of people visited the Smallholder and Garden Festival at Builth Wells over the weekend, enjoying a mixture of animals, events and spectacles.

Allen & Page has an opportunity for a talented and enthusiastic Area Sales Manager to cover the South West and Wales areas.

The Battery Hen Welfare Trust has recently undergone a name change and re-brand to more accurately reflect the organisation's wider scope. The charity is now called the British Hen Welfare Trust.

Come and see us at the Smallholder and Garden Festival on 15th and 16th May at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Showground, Builth Wells.

More UK producers should apply for protected status for the food they produce and join iconic British foods like Stilton cheese, Cornish clotted cream and Arbroath Smokies, Food and Farming Minister Jim Fitzpatrick said today.

A poorly developed demand for veterinary services rather than a shortage of farm animal veterinarians has been identified by a personal report published today by Professor Philip Lowe.

A Food Standard Authority’s study claims organic is not healthier than conventionally produced food, failing to take into account the huge benefits organic standards have for farm animals, the environment and people.

BBC Radio Scotland is looking for the new generation of people who have turned their back on the fast-paced life of the city to live the good life as a smallholder, or a greenshifter!

The Smallholder Range will be attending the Royal Welsh Smallholder & Garden Festival this weekend, at Builth Wells, Powys. With plenty to do for all the family, the show is a real celebration of everything smallholder and is a great opportunity to learn about new breeds, gather information or just have a fun day out.

Celebrity chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Compassion in World Farming took the high profile Chicken Out! campaign to the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to expose the Government's plan of increasing the number of birds that will be forced into overcrowded chicken sheds from 2010.

Grazing sheep used on conservation land are helping boost Bedfordshire's local economy by having their fleeces turned into wool.

A couple in Gateshead are facing eviction from their home unless they remove their chickens from their garden. Elisabeth and Ronald Lewis, are tenants of Gateshead Housing Company, and their tenancy agreement forbids them from keeping livestock.

The RSPCA has launched two new quirky online adverts to encourage people to think about their animal welfare footprint, as well as their carbon footprint...

Back in 1950, roast chicken was a feast day treat and Britons ate, on average, less than a kilo of chicken a year...