Taking Stock

A little something different I know and it's definately as ubject I know little about (although with 8 rather rare breed bantams at home I ought to I guess)....but I thought I'd bring you some news from the Craven Feather Auction at Skipton.

Ruling the roost (sorry) at the show and sale were Skipton-based, husband and wife poultry breeders Keith and Anne Chatburn who landed their third championship success of the year.

The couple’s trio of exhibition standard Large Black Orpingtons, hatched in 2007, won the large fowl class before going on to take the supreme championship and selling for the day’s top price of £110 to Mrs M Robson, of Cowling.

Some 900 lots of poultry were on offer at Melton Mowbray on Saturday. Take a look at our on-line gallery for more pictures from the sale.