Newchurch Poultry
Popes Farm, Newchurch, Isle of Wight,
Newchurch
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My husband Adrian and myself have been supplying Hybrid poultry to the island for 11 years now. My grandad used to keep free range poultry for egg production but eventually had to give up. We started to keep hybrid chickens ourself when we decided we wanted a few hens to produce eggs just for our own consumption. We found that at that time there was no-one on the island that we could buy hybrids from. We ended up travelling to mainland for just 6 birds, so with the
costs of the ferry they turned out to be very expensive chickens. We knew that there must be other people in the same boat so later that year we booked to go over and bring back 30 chickens. We never intended this to be a business, we just hoped to cover our ferry and transport costs and in turn help fellow poultry lovers. Little did we know there were so many people out there wanting to keep just a few chickens. And here we are 11 years later. We now bring on several thousand hybrid chicks a year, growing
them and finding them new homes. This is still really just a hobby, we both have jobs elsewhere and so long as we cover our expenses and the costs of feeding and vaccinating the birds then we are happy. Sadly the costs of feeding and buying the chickens as day olds has gone up tremendously and wehave had to increase our prices for the first time in 5 years. We have a long list of very satisfied customers.We are open all week and weekend but by appointment only. Please feel free to come along and take a look at the chickens or ask us any questions. We offer a back up service for all those questions you think
of once you get your chickens home. ANd we are always happy to offer advice and back up service for the full life of your chicken. We also offer a wing clipping service for those of you not brave enough to do this yourselves. We have also been
breeding some of our own pure breed poultry. Including Light sussex, Speckled sussex, wheaton marans, Cuckoo marans, French Copper black marans, Welsummer,Gold brahmas and bantams including Light sussex, Japenese and pekin bantams. Please feel free to give us a ring and see if we can help you out.
We have plans to move to the farm where we keep the chickens in the next few months. We already sell our own free range eggs direct from the door. Our eggs are fresh and colourful from cream through brown, to white and green. We also rear our own sheep and lambs and have just started our own flock of rare Kerry Hill sheep. We keep cattle including one highland cow and a mixture of beef cattle. We have also kept reindeer and at work we rear, alpaca, red deer and fallow deer,m so have plenty of livestock experience.
