The keeper’s view
a prelude to retirement and a desire to scale down the home shoot, I let my beat at the end of last season. For the first time in as long as I can remember, I had no pens to repair, water pipes to patch, electric fences to test or poults to worry about. I have not had to spend all day tearing round boundaries dogging-in, carting feed, pulling poults to where I want them and back from where I don’t. Though as a headkeeper the worry of disease is still with me, it has not been about my birds in my pens. With a huge work and worry load removed, why
