The faces of free range birds?

melons · Post by **melons** » 22 Jan 2008, 10:55

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Gbq3lkK ... re=related

Am i listening correctly that these birds were free range?

Tania · Post by **Tania** » 22 Jan 2008, 11:17

That's what the lady said Mel, but also said that they were confined to a shed - what I think we would term "barn eggs" not free range.

melons · Post by **melons** » 22 Jan 2008, 11:44

The poor little loves, I'd have one, but maybe a bit too far to collect her from :cry:

Post by **wendy** » 22 Jan 2008, 12:03

Well their free range is obviously different to ours, in the States.
These hens have the stereotypical bare necks of the battery girls through poking their head through the holes to eat.
Regardless of where they came from, they are appalling poor little souls.
Wendy

Post by Mo » 22 Jan 2008, 13:16

On a previous thread Wendy quoted someone who didn't buy Free Range eggs because they didn't know how the hens had been treated. Those horrific pictures show why.
I have the impression the person who made that video was a vegan, and against all farming. I hope someone shows a video of hens kept under Soil Association conditions as a contrast.

Post by Mo » 22 Jan 2008, 13:28

Yes, I went back to see if I could add a comment to say that hens could be well kept.
Adding comments had been disabled. So I went to their website, and they are vegans.
That kind of thing doesn't help. Very few people will be influenced to go vegan, they'll just shut their eyes to it and carry on as before.

Standards have to edge up, the worst abuses outlawed; people educated to buying some free range (e.g. whole eggs); the standards for freerange tightened; etc.
When they get in the habit of buying freerange eggs, then they start to notice the 'made with free range eggs' labels on cakes and mayonaise, and buy them some of the time.

Then the supermarkets stock more, and legal standards can be raised again.

melons · Post by **melons** » 22 Jan 2008, 14:54

I've only ever witnessed with my own eyes x1 free range farm & that was late last year, it was lovely, all these girls wandering about in acres & acres of open grass land, they had a massive barn to go in at night & I presume to lay, they had lots of shelters around the field for their food & to take cover from the elements, but I'm sure that this "one" viewing wasn't normal practice, we obviously didn't go in, it was next to a foot path, so we watched the girls for ages in small groups just doing chicken stuff, it was lovely, but they still only get that one year

AnnaB · Post by **AnnaB** » 22 Jan 2008, 17:35

I would assume that if you are signed up to 'youtube', you could register an objection to this video on the grounds that it is vegetarians who have posted it also that these are not free range birds.

Post by **wendy** » 22 Jan 2008, 18:31

The last rescue we went on in Brighton was for thousands of free range birds.
There were a few that had a bit of feather loss. But nothing like that. I think they were caged hens and as the people are vegans they are trying to put people of chicken and eggs. Free range or otherwise.
Wendy

melons · Post by **melons** » 22 Jan 2008, 19:04

Well this is why I queried it, as it didn't seem to add up to me

nettles · Post by **nettles** » 23 Jan 2008, 11:53

There is absolutely no way these are free ranged!

Whoever this person is they are completely deranged to even suggest so!

Free range chickens are usually perfect, we have a farm of free rangers near us and they look terrific!

You are all spot on, people like this don't help do they?

AnnaB · Post by **AnnaB** » 23 Jan 2008, 15:42

Exactly Jeanette - they don't help, neither does someone on the news saying that animals are responsible for global warming......