What do you need to 'build' a chicken to eat as meat? What has making chicken for meat got to do with resilience - of the UK food system and of individual consumers (human and avian)?

Build-A-Chick is a convivial and thought-provoking workshop that offers opportunities for you to explore what goes into 'making' and 'processing' chicken for meat consumption. How are chickens cared for? Where does the food they are fed come from? Where do the parts of the chicken carcass go to that UK consumers tend not to eat?

Build-A-Chick is aimed at families, students, and adults. Join us to craft a chick or a chicken nugget from felt and then tell us about it by completing a chick passport. And watch 'Winner Winner Chicken Dinner' by team artist Dr Kathryn Ashill.

Build-A-Chick is created and facilitated by the TRI-SoMe Chicken team, based in Geography with colleagues from other institutions and the poultry industry, and funded by UKRI as part of its UK Food Systems Resilience Programme. We are interested in learning about chicken consumers, retailers, processors, farmers and environments, now and for the future.