Another lovely Christmas Party with good food and friends.
Meetings
Programme of Events 2024/2025 |
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| 15 Apr 2025 | History of Poultry Breeds, by John Smith |
| 20 May 2025 | Quail, by Iona Forge |
| 17 June 2025 | Summer BBQ |
| 15 July 2025 | TBC |
| 19 Aug 2025 | TBC |
| 16 Sept 2025 | Member’s Photographic Box Show |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Steve Oaks from RSPB to talk about wild birds |
| 18 Nov 2025 | Member’s talk |
| 9 Dec 2025 | Christmas Meeting |
| 20 Jan 2026 | TBC – possibly Jenny from NFS – How to organise an event |
| 17 Feb 2026 | A talk from Good Nature – Pest Control |
| 17 Mar 2026 | AGM followed by ChickenAlia Auction |
Meeting Format
We meet on the third Tuesday of each month (except for December when it is the second Tuesday) at 19-30 for 19-45 at the Radnor Hall, Bodenham, Nr. Salisbury, SP5 4EQ. This venue is 2 miles south of Salisbury just off the Ringwood Road, A338.
We aim to start on time as the main speaker may have travelled some distance to speak to us. Refreshment is available either during an interval or after the main speaker has delivered his/her presentation. This is followed by a poultry matters forum – a questions and answer session usually about bird health, breeding and housing, but any subject matter can be covered, tapping on the wide knowledge of members.
We run an egg competition (see under competitions) at most of our meetings and it is wise to come early to place your entries before the main speaker commences. A raffle with members donations helps keep the club on a sound financial footing.
Coming up
The next meeting is on Tuesday 20th May 2025 and will be a talk by Iona Forge about Quail. There will be an egg show tonight.
Avian Flu
Find the most up to date details at: www.gov.uk/government/news and search for avian-flu
November 2019 – Members Box Show
Mr Mike Hatcher returned and judged the members box show. Mile said he would attempt to educate and entertain us and he certainly did that. There were 14 entries small and large with the overall winner being a superb large Light Sussex hen.
October 2019 – Geese
September 2019 – Poultry Sheds
August 2019 – Poultry Supplies
We had a very interesting talk by Fiona about the supplies she sells from her company FMB Poultry; this includes Borotto incubators and Androlis which is a biological control treatment for the dreaded red mite that lives in poultry housing. Androlis consists of predatory mites which were originally found in sparrow nests, naturally protecting the birds from external parasites. The Androlis mites eats the red mites and as they crawl into all the nooks and crannies there is no where for the red mites to hide and they are killed.