MPH Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 Ok i will give you a brief description of what happens to battery hens... i am sure most of you have heard the conditions they are kept in or seen a tv program about them so im sure i dont need to go into their living conditions.. Egg producers buy the chickens at a very young age.. now when they first start laying eggs they lay between 6-7 eggs per week. However, when they drop down to 4 eggs per week they are no longer considered financially viable and are sent off to be slaughtered - unable to be used for their meat the farmers have to pay for them to be slaughtered. Ok this is the part im thinking is cool there is a charity called The Battery Hen Welfare Trust which basically intercepts the chickens and re-homes them to anyone who is willing to take them. The farmers give them to them for free - saves them from paying for them to be slaughtered.. They keep producing eggs until they are 7 years old and often their egg production goes back up after a couple of months in better conditions.. We keep chickens in the states and if i was planning on being back in Leicester for very long i would definately be getting some of these. their collection points nearest to us are west Midlands and Lincolnshire. If you know of anyone who is considering getting chickens for eggs ( NOTHING beats home produced free range eggs...) then please look at this website... Now you may laugh at me but looking at some of of the stories people had on that website of watching their rescued chickens looking at the sunlight for the first time and being able to actually walk about was quite moving! They dont have to be left free to roam around your garden.. most people just keep them in pens- relative luxury! They can often start off looking like scrawny little things, but after a couple of months all their feathers grow back and they look so healthy!! so the website again.... The Battery Hen Welfare Trust *waits to be ridiculed for caring about chickens!*
Guest Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 If it wasn't for the fact that; a) they scare me b) I don't like cleaning animals c) I don't have anywhere to put them I would go for this. I was thinking last week how nice it would be to have fresh eggs.
Bryn Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 We have nowhere enough room for a chicken but my mum would love one. No shame in being for animal welfare in any manner, regardless of whether or not you use animal products. I've always said pushing for sustainable and humane farming is a better battle to fight to start with than trying to get people not to eat meat. Whilst we're at it, spay and neuter your fucking cats and get other people to do the same.
BoneDog Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 Do chickens make alot of noise? I want a couple Mind you, thinking about it, I have got some foxes who visit every night so not sure how I could work round that. Would a chicken be alright in a garage at night? Plenty of room in there. If I get some I'm gonna take em a walk round the block on a lead. There's a mad bar-steward on my street who takes their cat for a walk on a lead so I'd be able to outdo them with a chicken
Libertine Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 *waits to be ridiculed for caring about chickens!* No, kudos. I wish more people cared about animals in the same way.
MPH Posted 3 August 2009 Author Posted 3 August 2009 Do chickens make alot of noise? I want a couple Mind you, thinking about it, I have got some foxes who visit every night so not sure how I could work round that. Would a chicken be alright in a garage at night? Plenty of room in there. If I get some I'm gonna take em a walk round the block on a lead. There's a mad bar-steward on my street who takes their cat for a walk on a lead so I'd be able to outdo them with a chicken they sometimes like to cluck a little bit after laying an egg - kind of " wahey look at me!" type stuff. Also can cluck when scared by something.... I know someone who keeps chickens in their garden on didsbury street in the middle of Braunstone.. Plenty of foxes around but if they are secure then they will be fine. funny you should mention about cats... I first got to see chickens when i was living in Belgrave.. terraced housing and all.. was washing the dishes looking out into the garden and suddenly a chicken walked past the window.. i was like.. " what the...." ran to tell my housemates and suddenly remembered the cats were out there and feared for this chicken.... Went out into the garden to see the cats, bless them pinned against the wall backs all arched looking like they had just seen Ann Widdecomb running naked through the garden or somthing....
stez Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 i've kept chickens in the past, they're a right laugh, plus the eggs are a bonus!
Edmund Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 There's a mad bar-steward on my street who takes their cat for a walk on a lead so I'd be able to outdo them with a chicken I would love to see that.
dandannieldanok Posted 3 August 2009 Posted 3 August 2009 Sounds like a nice idea but given I eat a lot of chicken I think it would be a tad hypocritical of me to save a lucky chicken whilst I eat an unlucky one at dinner time.
MPH Posted 3 August 2009 Author Posted 3 August 2009 Sounds like a nice idea but given I eat a lot of chicken I think it would be a tad hypocritical of me to save a lucky chicken whilst I eat an unlucky one at dinner time. oh i eat chicken.. but these are great to keep for free range eggs... that would be their purpose... the age they would be coming to people would be from older than 2 years and so not suitable for eating, apparently..... For these chickens, its all about the eggs \
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