(Season 1 Episode 4 of 4): Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs. Fur Babies airs on Channel 4 HD at 8:00 PM, Thursday 28 December. Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs
(Season 1 Episode 4 of 4): Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs. Fur Babies airs on Channel 4 +1 at 9:00 PM, Thursday 28 December. Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs
(Season 1 Episode 4 of 4): Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs. Fur Babies airs on 4seven HD at 3:55 AM, Friday 29 December. Vet Bolo Eso helps 11-year-old Bessie to hatch chicken eggs
Arthur Parkinson, 30, from Nottingham, got his first chicken aged seven and has owned 40 throughout his life. In August, 10 of the 14 chickens he was looking after were killed in a vicious fox attack.
You ve heard of pampered pooches, now make way for chickens who turn their beaks up at run-of-the-mill hen houses. Chicken ownership boomed in lockdown as people took on new hobbies, with many trying to recreate the 70s sitcom about self-sufficiency, The Good Life, in their own back gardens.
Hen re-homing charities report soaring demand for birds and, while most are housed in simple coops, a lucky few live in far grander surroundings. SADIE NICHOLAS meets the fowl who d get in a flap if they had to live in anything less than these well feathered nests.
Lives of luxury for feathered friends