Navigation for This Way Up
More About Chickens
Pāmu Heihei Tihohehohe
We set up a backyard chicken coop and leisure area by converting an old playhouse into a coop, whacked a few warratahs around, attached some chicken wire and bought six highlay birds from a battery chicken farm. It's our way of fighting back against rising food costs.
Anei anō ngā kōrero whakamārama e pā ana ki ngā heihei ki runga i Te Reo Irirangi o Aoteroa.
-
Hens in rest homes
How keeping chickens is making people happier in retirement homes. Douglas Hunter's the director of a charity called Equal Arts that set up HenPower. Audio, Gallery
-
Chicken Talk
Each year, Wellington streets are awash with foodies for two weeks during Wellington on a Plate. But it's not all about entrees and burgers, wine and beer. Amelia Nurse went along to an event at… Audio
-
Gardening with Kath Irvine: chickens
13 Aug 2011Kath Irvine runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau. She is talking about chickens. Audio
-
Clever chooks
How a decision to go rural and take on the 'good life' has then led Claire Peach to show others, particularly school children, the experience of real live chickens. Audio
-
Retracing the path of the chicken across the Pacific
Archaelogists believe they may have answered how the chicken crossed the Pacific, and it could help form a pattern of human migration. Audio
-
Just the Usual Farm Day
22 Feb 2013A farmer talks about a memorable day saving a hen from a drum of molasses, courtesy of the New Zealand Sound Archives. Audio
-
Chicken Champion
Retired farmer Ken Vincent has been breeding chickens for 70 years. Audio
-
Laying eggs to Mozart
About a year ago, estate owner Peter Yealands started playing classical music from speakers around his vineyard in a grand experiment called "project harmony". He wanted to see if it would increase… Audio
-
Happy Hens
19 Feb 2010Peter McLeod produces free range and Bio-Gro certified organic meat chickens on the families Westwood Organic farm in Canterbury. Audio
-
Annie Potts: chickens
5 Nov 2011Associate Professor and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, and author of the new book, Chicken. Audio
-
Spectrum for 23 May
23 May 2010Little Portia of Panmure and young Bradley of Westmere have new playmateschooks. Their parents have just installed a hen house and chickens in their suburban gardens."Chickens@ home"is the brain child… Audio