A Brief History
Doble’s Poultry is a small family business based in south Somerset run by Tony & Felicity and their two sons Andrew & William, what started as a hobby has now spiralled to a thriving popular enterprise. We started keeping poultry of our own in 1983, like many poultry keepers our first chickens were ex battery hens, but it wasn’t long before we fancied keeping some pure breeds and we were fortunate enough to be given a trio of Welsummer bantams from a neighbour. We all thought the cockerel was a particularly handsome bird so we decided to enter him in the local Yeovil Agricultural Show and to our surprise he won best in show, and from then on there was no looking back, the showing bug had bitten.
We then gradually started keeping more and more breeds which were acquired from other local fanciers who we met at local shows and through poultry societies which helped to develop our knowledge in all poultry matters. Our sons Andrew and William were both very interested in poultry which led to yet more breeds being kept.
With such a wide range of breeds of large fowl, bantams and domestic ducks being kept we were asked by the Somerset branch of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust to accompany them to a number of shows to display a range of different breeds and answer the public’s questions and offer advice on poultry matters. After having so many enquiries regarding buying the birds we had on display we decided to increase our breeding levels and turn this thoroughly enjoyable hobby into a small business and this was when Doble’s Poultry was officially hatched!
We now keep and sell around 50 pure breeds, hatching eggs in season and due to popular demand 11 colours of point of lay hyrbrids.
We then gradually started keeping more and more breeds which were acquired from other local fanciers who we met at local shows and through poultry societies which helped to develop our knowledge in all poultry matters. Our sons Andrew and William were both very interested in poultry which led to yet more breeds being kept.
With such a wide range of breeds of large fowl, bantams and domestic ducks being kept we were asked by the Somerset branch of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust to accompany them to a number of shows to display a range of different breeds and answer the public’s questions and offer advice on poultry matters. After having so many enquiries regarding buying the birds we had on display we decided to increase our breeding levels and turn this thoroughly enjoyable hobby into a small business and this was when Doble’s Poultry was officially hatched!
We now keep and sell around 50 pure breeds, hatching eggs in season and due to popular demand 11 colours of point of lay hyrbrids.
