All around the world the chicken keeping craze is taking off and a clever entrepreneur has jumped on the bandwagon in Sydney with an invention every city living bird owner will covet. Firstly there is the chicken lead…But then the most amazing accessory… Chicken nappies! What glorious madness. I love the entrepreneurial spirit and ingenuity [...]
oultry!A horrific example of a twisted futuristic chicken-dinosaur hybrid…on another planet. Fascinating news out of the USA where a scientist, who looks like he passed all the criteria for ‘mad genius’ status, has genetically engineered a chicken with the snout of an alligator. And before you get excited sorry there are no photos, the chickens [...]
Now we all remember Emily Padfield deputy machinery editor at Farmers Weekly and author of the hit machinery blog Torque Talk (geddit?). Well if you don’t here she is again playing Chuckie Egg… Anyway Emily has provided some images of her inquisitive White Star bird, known as David Brown or by the alias ‘White Chicken’, [...]
Yep, I’ve got no clue either. It’s a picture of a bookshelf, a very poultry themed bookshelf and a lot classier than PW’s bookshelf. The picture was sent to The Forager by Adam Tinworth, head yoda like guru of all things web and tech at PW’s publisher Reed Business Information. Sadly though he didn’t provide [...]
Special thanks to Rick on Flickr for this image of delicious buffalo wings. Another of our ongoing occasional series is our defence of what may be the world’s greatest food stuff, chicken wings and specifically American buffalo wings. We’ve seen Jim Carrey blame chicken wings for a poor score in ten pin bowling and a [...]
Just when you thought the UK poultry industry was making leaps and bounds in using renewable energy those Americans have to come along and deliver a massive dose of one one-upmanship. Perdue Farms has finished the first part of its massive 11,000 panel solar set-up at its feed mill and offices in Bridgeville, Delaware and [...]
Thanks to broadsurf for our shot of an urban fox in LondonAccording to The Telegraph a farmer in Dorset has found that BBC’s Radio 4 is so boring that it is repelling foxes from his swannery.As a keen listener to Radio 4, when I’m near a radio which is rare, I’m a little miffed. Then [...]
Andy Warhol’s Eggs 1982. Thanks to *Clarity on Flickr for the image. A rarely seen abstract painting entitled ‘Eggs, 1982′ by pop art icon Andy Warhol is set to be exhibited in the UK at an upcoming show at The Tate St Ives. The picture is part of a series of Egg paintings Warhol made [...]
Another week and another pile of strange poultry news has landed in my inbox. We have the story of a chicken killing dog spared being put to sleep, a 5p sized egg, ANOTHER rapper opening a fried chicken franchise and a bizarre case of animal cruelty. So here we go…A chicken killing dog has been [...]
The USA is perhaps, more than the UK, a nation which is ever vigilant of ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. And now poultry farming suburbanites are able to wander around the neighbours backyards to see how the chicken keeping other half live, inspecting their egg laying operations. The WSJ reports there’s the Funky Coop Tour [...]