Some residents here enthusiastically keep hens as well as other types of farm animals.

The man who keeps hens says this fox comes through my garden.

Because keeping hens is rather a mild amusement for a poacher?

He kept hens too, and was also a pigeon enthusiast.

Beware, though, keeping hens can develop into a passion that lasts a lifetime.

Here, in different runs, were kept several hundred small and snow-white hens.

Wouldn't it be better to keep hens, and get bigger eggs?

I'm just trying to show that there is work involved in keeping hens rather than just thinking of it as a "lifestyle choice".

What an amazing number of people in Devon keep hens - another sign that England has changed less than we thought.

Each house had land at the back to keep hens on and had land down near the sea pool for growing vegetables.