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Music star haunted by frozen chicken

According to the Daily Star George Michael is being haunted by the ghost of a chicken, which was frozen in 1626.  The music legend, 48, was warned by Ghost hunters about high levels of paranormal activity on his street in Highgate, north London.He’ll have to make sure he doesn’t let slip any “careless whispers” or [...]

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PETA billboards urge Super Bowl fans to go vegan

It has become a world-wide phenomenon and is the second largest day for US food consumption. Yes, it’s that time of year again when football fans everywhere pig-out and tune in to watch the Super Bowl.   With Super Bowl Sunday fast approaching the National Chicken Council (NCC) has estimated that more than 2.5 billion [...]

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Rich pickings from Norfolk and Suffolk

As it says on the tin, The Feathered Forager is all about “uncovering morsels from the world of poultry” – and the recent meeting of the Norfolk and Suffolk Poultry Association provided rich pickings.

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Free-ranging on the high seas

At Anslow Eggs in Staffordshire free-range hens have been given a very unique range enhancement thanks to a local Chinese restaurant.The Wing Wah restaurant donated a decorative boat, which formerly sat in their dining hall, after an extensive renovation of their restaurant. Wing Wah refurbished the boat and offered it free to a good home.One [...]

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Cage free hens back behind bars

No sooner than 20 former conventionally caged hens were out on the range they were back behind bars as the latest inmates of HM Prison Holloway.The birds were acquired through the British Hen Welfare Trust by the prison as part of a garden programme to provide education and therapeutic projects for its population of women [...]

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Just enough room to swing a Kaparot

Thanks to the Huffington Post. For their fully slideshow visit here. In the lead up to the Jewish period of atonement known as Yom Kippur, at the end of the Jewish religious year, chickens are used in the ceremony known as ‘Kaparot‘.The ceremony involves people holding chickens above their heads as they recite two of [...]

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Sexy @NYTchicken creates twitter storm

A New York Times article about cooking with chicken skin has created an internet sensation after a twitter account popped up pretending to be the chicken in now famous picture used on the article.The @NYTchicken account has teased, and been teased by, KFC and a host of other twitter users and even prompted a typically [...]

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Big Clucker

As the faded glory that is Big Brother plays itself out on our screens again I couldn’t help but notice the housemates latest antics are poultry related.  This week housemates are being forced to live in a coop for a week, dressed in a chicken costume, consuming only ‘chicken feed’ (read ‘sweet popcorn’) and even [...]

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SPACE 2011

Well the FF made it to France safe and sound for the 2011 SPACE well safe apart from the dazed look I give anyone when they speak at me in French. I know I should have joined those weird kids and done French for all of high school. But sadly Gunter did have some trouble [...]

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Bird dawg: When gun dogs fall for fowl

My ever helpful and comrade over at Farmers Weekly, Tim Relf, has quite helpfully forwarded The Forager this great picture from an FW reader. It shows Nudge, Greg Bull’s 12 week old Labrador puppy, kipping down with his and his fiancée Emma Shaw’s chickens on the Leconfield Estate in West Sussex. Now Emma and Greg [...]

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