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Owd Fred and Incontinence

I recieved an email of Own Fred today, it was rather amusing!! Heres the pic he sent me..... it got me giggling! I think he's happy he's not a bat! Been in the butchery today, plucking and packaging/partially dressing birds. Then i had to go and shift about 300 chickens - remind me not to work...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Wed, Aug 13 2008
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
Turkey tantrums and bloomin' bales!

Had a busy weekend! Hopefully, harvest shall we starting in a weeks time, its been a bit handy that it hasn't been sooner for us - this is due to my delgihtful turkeys. After running them with chickens they are going to have to be moved after the worry of contracting a disease off the chickens which...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Sun, Jul 20 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
Foxes

Does anyone have any ideas to stop foxes taking hens. Since last night we had 10 taken took 6 but buried the rest in the garden.

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by loftus on Wed, Apr 16 2008
Dreaming of a white.....easter??

Hey! Happy Easter to you's all. Hope you aint ate too many easter eggs, i have tried not to, but failed! Being up the far North of England, we have had a big down fall of snow. I left home on Friday morning with grandad, sun was out, a bit of cloud and the temperature was about 2 degrees and the...

Posted to Matty's Blog (Weblog) by matty s on Mon, Mar 24 2008
Re: Hugh Fernley Whittingstall

Interestingly, during the last two avian flu outbreaks in the UK (Bernard Matthews and Redgrave), I had reports of consumers switching to free range chicken from butchers. The reason was that they wanted chicken where they knew where it came from. I don't know whether these consumers only switched...

Posted to Chicken chat (Forum) by Richard Allison on Tue, Jan 8 2008
Do farm animals like music

Apparently there's been some scientific research showing that livestock responds well to music. It can keep chickens calm - and some claim it increases cows' yields if it's played in the milking parlour. Seems a bit far-fetched to me - although I suppose it depends on the music. Don't...

Posted to Talking Point (Forum) by Tim.Relf on Thu, Oct 11 2007

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