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  • Re: Newcomer to Free Range Egg Production

    You may be interested in some hygiene tips for Free Range Egg Production in this article from this month's Poultry World: http://www.octagon-services.co.uk/articles/poultry/hygiene.pdf Brachyspira infection is a significant business risk in layers now. Michael
    Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by HolisticHealth on Tue, Aug 12 2008

  • Non Profit Poultry Buisness in The Gambia

    Hi everyone, I am writing to request guidance regarding a poultry startup buisness in The Gambia. My name is Qasid. I am a Londoner who spent his gap year teaching maths in a Gambian secondary school. During my seven months there I witnessed first hand the extreme and widespread poverty in The Gambia...
    Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by qasid on Sat, Aug 2 2008

  • Wish me luck

    I know it's been a while since I wandered in..(long story). BUT...I have just written a nagging letter to my landlords (housing Association) asking why I can keep pigeons in my back garden and not chickens! I am awaiting a reply and hopefully permission...considering I know chickens can't be...
    Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by flowerdrum on Mon, May 12 2008

  • Re: Leader in today's Farmers' Weekly

    Thanks for your posting, Yes I'm aware that Hugh had been on an "enriched poultry" unit and I have no problem with this side of the sector, the message I was trying to get across was that quite frankly, retailers must do much more to promote standard chicken production methods regardless...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Fri, Jan 11 2008

  • Re: Kill it, Cook it, Eat it plus Hugh's Chicken Run and Jamies' Fowl Dinners

    I agree with your comments on the programme. However I was sorry that no mention of the costs of the two systems were made except at the very beginning with a brief comment that producers were only paid 3p a bird for the intensively reared product
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by old spots on Thu, Jan 10 2008

  • Re: Chicken Out Campaign

    I can't work out if it is linked to the Compassion in World Farming's ongoing Chickens Out! campaign. Free range chicken is indeed a rapidly growing part of the poultry sector. However, I do find the site very confusing and muddled as it goes on about the benefits of free range and encourages...
    Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Richard Allison on Fri, Oct 19 2007

  • red mite help please

    Hi After years of keeping livestock, dogs and horses I admit I am new to keeping hens this year.. coping with everything fine except red mite... today found traces in all 2 new hen houses depsite using poultry shield often... tried dettol also and blowtorch in the worst affected part of the worst arc...
    Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by droverjess on Mon, Oct 15 2007
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