Early Bird Learning:

Always one to warm the heart, this gorgeous photo of little Madison Wilcken watching her adopted hens really made us coo. You may recognise the surname – Madison's brother Leo was featured in our spring edition!

Their mum, Shelley, said Madison loves watching her feathered friends and Leo has grown in confidence with the birds too. That really is inspiring the next generation of hen keepers, and we love it.

Eggs = superfood

Eggs are a verified superfood, but even we wouldn’t dream of eating 24 a day. That’s what one doctor did every day for a month as documented in a now-viral video viewed more than 160,000 times on YouTube.

Nick Norwitz set out to disprove the idea that eating too many eggs raises your cholesterol and even he was surprised by the results. Not only did eating 720 eggs in a month not cause his cholesterol levels to rise, but his low-density lipoprotein levels, or ‘bad cholesterol’ fell by 18%. They really were good eggs.

Did you know...

Humans have up to 10,000 tastebuds while chickens only have around 350, meaning they cannot taste sweetness and spiciness. Their tastebuds sit at the back of their mouth so they don’t taste their food until they begin to swallow.

Find the Golden Egg

Hidden amongst these pages is a little golden egg just waiting to be found. If you spot it, you could win one of our limited edition 2025 BHWT calendars, jam-pecked with lots of beautiful hens.

To enter, visit our competitions page at bhwt. org.uk/get-involved/competitions where you can submit the page number of the hidden egg before 30.11.2024.