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This is the article that came out this weekend in our local newspaper. http://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/eeditions/ Second page [which really is the front page] in the Free Watford Observer. Wendy http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
Well done Wendy. I still don't understand why this topic isn't reported continually in the national press until keeping commercial chickens becomes a humane and accountable practice.
The accounts of the recent rescue were truly harrowing - although knowing the lucky rescued girls now have a future is heartwarming. My respect to all concerned. Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com PS. I have recently posted a bit about my messy run and it got me thinking - what happens to the chickens' poo when they are confined in such a small area in the battery farm?
Someone who has never kept chickens would have no idea how much they poo. Surely those sort of conditons must be completely unsanitary? Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com Yes, they are unsanitary and people still eat the eggs and then eventually the chickens.
Obviously they are cleaned out at some stage otherwise it would have been piled high, but how they do it I don't know. But as everything else is done by machine food, water and egg collection. I would assume that is how it is done as well. But the stench was unbelievable, when you first went in. Wendy http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning
Well done on an excellent article, Wendy!!
Information needs thrusting in front of people's noses .....hopefully, it will have the desired effect. When I had the last batch of rescue girls, I deliberately put them in a run near the gate for the first week, so that people coming for my free range eggs saw them. Some were shocked, and indeed sympathetic, others I could see were uncomfortable, as they had to admit they bought battery eggs, and cheap chickens from the supermarket, but I did drive home the fact that those 12 birds may have laid the eggs they bought from the shop, and could have been on the shelf themselves shortly had I not rescued them. I am not afraid to stand up for what I believe is right - and its not right that these hens are kept in such disgusting conditions. The public should be made aware of these conditions, so I make sure they get to hear at every opportunity. I will have all the people round here going off chicken for sunday lunch ......!!!
Well, I have to say Chicken on the Hill I've wondered the same thing. Do you think that given how many battery hens there are that these manure pellets are all from battery farms?
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