Mantel Farm is a family run garden farming shop in the heart of the East Sussex countryside. We offer chickens for sale in Sussex, point of lay chickens, beekeeping equipment, animal housing & runs, animal supplies, feed and equipment. We provide animal boarding services for when you go away, specialising in chicken boarding in Sussex since 2007. We also run regular chicken keeping courses and beekeeping courses, with beginners beekeeping course training. Our aim is to support our family in as self sufficient and sustainable way as possible, we run a small scale family business, only selling products we have used ourselves and animals we have experience in keeping. We now have many breeds of poultry, along with beehives and small families of ducks, rabbits, pigs, geese and goats. We specialise in Poultry, selling everything you need to keep chickens yourselves. We welcome you to come and have a look at the animals, browse our shop or ask our advice. We are happy to talk you you and encourage you to try this special way of life, either by enjoying the pleasures of keeping livestock, growing your own food or by simply buying local produce. We hope we can show you that you dont need a farm to keep animals, any reasonable sized garden can be home to a few hens for really fresh eggs, a hive for bees for honey and only a small pig paddock is needed for your own tasty pork. Our training courses are held on our farm and include evening and weekend sessions for both the beginner or experienced beekeeper, chicken keeping courses and handling demonstrations with health checks, and other general smallholding related courses. We will always encourage others to be as self sufficient and sustainable as possible, and this includes keeping livestock where possible. Our courses are here to help and through these sessions, in our shop or through our website and blog we are happy to talk to you and share our experiences and advice. "Chickens come to stay while you go away!" Chicken, Duck, Quail, Guinea Pig and Rabbit Boarding Other small animals considered, please contact us Why not book your animals in for a holiday of their own? and go away relaxed, safe in the knowledge that they are being well cared for, totally secure inside our barn, in one of our purpose built holiday pens. About our service: "CHICKEN TRIPPERS" Poultry​ Boarding Since 2007 Mantel Farm's chicken boarding service was first established in 2007,and has quickly grown to include other small animals. We consider ourselves to have been the first to offer this chicken service in the UK. Bringing your animals to board with us means leaving your well loved family pets, or smallholding flock in capable hands. We have a dedicated area in our barn for our animal boarding.