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Practical Affordable WATERFOWL AND POULTRY HOUSING available throughout United Kingdom

SMALLHOLDER SHOP national mail order supplies of electric fencing, equipment, and incubators

Argyll JACOB SHEEP, raised here on the farm for their lamb, mutton, fleece and rugs

Full site map of all pages and topics

Ardchattan parish archive : the ecology, genealogy and social history of the area around us
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Kintaline poultry : Traditional Utility Pure breed Chickens
What are we breeding in 2009? ~ ~ Contact Us ~ ~ About Us
We would both like to extend our warmest welcome to our home, Kintaline, 10 miles north of Oban in the beautiful county of Argyll on the West Coast of Scotland. Over the past decades we have been slowly renovating this very old farm.
We developed our utility poultry and waterfowl breeding centre aiming to improve the strains of quality, productive hens and ducks and grow an fascinating range of herbs and perennials for your garden. We now host the Local Producers Market, every First and Third Thursday of each month.
There is lots more going on as you will see from all our links around. We hope something here will be of interest to both local customers and visitors to the area alike. We look forward to seeing old friends and new in 2009.
Please enjoy yourself wandering around our web site about traditional Utility Poultry, by clicking on any of the underlined words, where we have put lots of information about the birds we are breeding, hoping to save what is left of the now very rare utility strains of pure breeds.
The Poultry and Waterfowl Park
is a constantly developing area providing breed pens, ponds and rearing pens
for a range of traditional utility breeds of poultry
and waterfowl, all in attractively landscaped surroundings overlooking the mountains and the sea. Depending on what else we are doing with the farm and business, the birds we breed each year varies, but the park is open most of the year, learn lots about keeping chickens and ducks in a domestic environment, see housing and equipment in use, and then pick our brains. We have been helping people solving their poultry problems for decades now, so have more practical experience than those who are only recently joined the poultry fraternity. In the winter, please Contact Us for winter opening arrangements.
Come and wander round, make new friends, find out about the different breeds and why we think they are so rare.
We have
hens, ducks,
and geese and maybe you will want some of your own.
We would be delighted to advise you, without obligation.
We also rear Black Rock hybrid pullets, in our opinion the best commercial free range layer, and on the farm we have our own flock of Black
Rock hens producing Eggs from our free range hens in the spirit of the law not just to the letter. You can taste the difference. Our customers come from far and wide, and there are many regulars taking eggs back to the other side of the country.
We are passionate about good breeding, and desparately sad about what is happening to most good old breeds in the most recent years. We aim to try and give you some ideas as to how to choose the best birds for you. It is also clear that there is some very weak information available online nowadays from people who have very limited experience, which is misleading many new keepers into drastic mistakes.
Hopefully 2009 will allow us to provide much more information about keeping birds, breeding, rearing, and avoiding the pitfalls of domestic poultry keeping..
At the farm we are constantly open to new ideas, and in 2008 a Local Producers Market started, held here, every First and Third Thursday of the month, from March to December. The shop is full of feeders and drinkers, and lots more equipment, books and videos. All of which is available mail order around the country, along with our unique Electric fencing kits. We also supply a wide range of feeds, including all the high quality, low waste wild bird feeds and seeds, as well as poultry feed - and can get feeds for other livestock and pets - please enquire - local customers only.
Tim and Jill Bowis
Kintaline Mill Farm,
Benderloch, OBAN Argyll PA37 1QS Scotland
all images are copyright, do not use without express permission and links back to this site.
Contact Us ~ ~ About Us
01631 720223
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Our hardy PLANT NURSERY where we grow interesting and unusual
perennials, herbs and lots of rhododendrons

Full range of BOOKS and DVDS's on poultry keeping, other smallholding topics and related gift ideas.

Let the white campbell drake lead you into the world of DUCKS

Click on Louis to find out about traditional utility breeds of CHICKENS
Around the garden we have a G scale Garden Railway track. Tim is delighted to meet fellow enthusiasts
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