This site is designed to tell you all about our activities at Tiphayes Farm where I breed and sell small numbers of Traditional Breed Chickens, Ducks and Chinese Geese and make beautiful houses for them. There's also lots of useful advice about buying your first chickens and how to look after them so I hope you enjoy the site whether you become a customer or not.
Tiphayes Farm is set on the edge of the Blackdown Hills near to the Devon / Somerset border in an area of outstanding natural beauty, the nearest town is Honiton about 5 miles away to the South West.
Thank you for all your supportJust to say a sincere thank you to all my lovely customers who have bought chooks and houses from me over the past few years, I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED DEALING WITH YOU. Unfortunatelyit has proven impossible to make this a viable venture due to many factors but especially the very steep rise in the cost of raw materials including feed and timber and the increased cost of veterinary supplies, plus a collapse in the price of Traditionally Bred Stock. It would seem that the only way to rear poultry successfully in this country is to do so in vast numbers and becoming a factory farmer was certainly never my intention. So I'm winding things down and will not be breeding any birds this year.
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The house which is an original Thatched Devon Longhouse dating from the 15th Century, is set in traditional farmland of small enclosures mostly with the ancient hedges still intact. We are also adjacent to several acres of woodland and the whole area is a haven for a wonderfully wide variety of wildlife.
One of the functions of this site, will eventually be, to show the visiting wildlife throughout the seasons, another is to share the wonderful world of traditional chooks as I like to call my chickens.
I have been keeping poultry on and off for over twenty five years but have only recently become interested in breeding traditional breeds to compliment my craft business of making beautiful hand crafted chook houses, dog kennels and other animal houses which are shown in the "Houses For Sale" section of this site.
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| Just click on the headings on the left to find your way around the site both our "Chook Houses For Sale" our "Chickens for Sale" and our "Other Poultry For Sale" are listed. |  |
My latest exploits (well those I'm prepared to talk about anyway!) are detailed in the Diary section of the site.
