More About Chickens

How keeping chickens is making people happier in retirement homes. Douglas Hunter's the director of a charity called Equal Arts that set up HenPower. Audio, Gallery

Each year, Wellington streets are awash with foodies for two weeks during Wellington on a Plate. But it's not all about entrees and burgers, wine and beer. Amelia Nurse went along to an event at… Audio

Kath Irvine runs Edible Backyard workshops from her garden in Ohau. She is talking about chickens. Audio

How a decision to go rural and take on the 'good life' has then led Claire Peach to show others, particularly school children, the experience of real live chickens. Audio

Archaelogists believe they may have answered how the chicken crossed the Pacific, and it could help form a pattern of human migration. Audio

A farmer talks about a memorable day saving a hen from a drum of molasses, courtesy of the New Zealand Sound Archives. Audio

Retired farmer Ken Vincent has been breeding chickens for 70 years. Audio

About a year ago, estate owner Peter Yealands started playing classical music from speakers around his vineyard in a grand experiment called "project harmony". He wanted to see if it would increase… Audio

Peter McLeod produces free range and Bio-Gro certified organic meat chickens on the families Westwood Organic farm in Canterbury. Audio

Associate Professor and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies at Canterbury University, and author of the new book, Chicken. Audio

Little Portia of Panmure and young Bradley of Westmere have new playmateschooks. Their parents have just installed a hen house and chickens in their suburban gardens."Chickens@ home"is the brain child… Audio