Name: Chicken Keeping Basics
Start: 2026-02-28T14:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-28T16:30:00+00:00
Location: Oxford City Farm

Thinking about keeping chickens? Join our workshop and learn everything you need to get started!
About this Event

Learn how to:

Learn how to properly care for your chickens every day
How to handle chickens including basic anatomy
Daily and regular care requirements, including wing clipping
How to site, size, and protect your coop, including look at options like Eglu pre-made coops
Common health concerns
How to feed and water chickens
Understand the basics of chicken behaviour

You will meet our chickens, visit Cluckingham Palace and have time for a Q&A with Bradley.

This workshop will take place if we reach the required number of participants, so invite a friend to join you!

Please arrive ten minutes before the workshop is due to begin.

Refund policy

We aim to keep course costs as low and accessible with many of our events being pay what you feel. The courses we run help us to raise crucial untied funds to enable us to grow our work with the wider community such as our free to access Community Farming Sessions.

For events under £15 or pay what you feel the ticket price is non-refundable but tickets can be transferred.

For events over £15, we will refund you if you contact us 48 hours before the event to cancel. Please note that the Eventbrite fees are non-refundable (usually around 10%).

In the exceptional circumstances where we need to cancel the event (staff sickness; extreme weather) then we will get in touch to ask if you would like a full refund including the Eventbrite fees or if you would be happy to donate your fee to charitable aims of the Farm.

No dogs allowed on the Farm.

Oxford City Farm is a smoke-free site.

There is NO parking available inside the Farm. We kindly ask visitors not to park in the Care Home parking.

How to find the Farm:

Look for the Isis Care Home car parking entrance on Cornwallis street, and walk to the green gate at the end of it. That is the entrance of the Farm.

There is NO parking available inside the Farm. We kindly ask visitors not to park in the Care Home parking.

Thank you!