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| doganjo |
Hens in your back gardenI am on a mission - I think every family should have a couple of hens in their back garden. they are easy to look after and the eggs are delicious. And at the same time, save a hens life and give her a new one!- www.henrehomers.net - www.bhwt.co.uk |
| Mugi |
Can't keep poultry due to local bye-laws and I believe that goes for a lot of towns.
Then again, Brice is scared of the electric chickens he grew up with so I would have a cowering wreck if I did have them here!!!!!! |
| doganjo |
Councils are coming round though! There is a move afoot for food to be as local as possible. Councils usually say no if you ask them, but if you don't they won't stop you unless someone complains. Tell the neighbours you'd like to have a couple of hens, tell them they'll get fresh free range eggs, they'll come round. Jamie and Hugh are doing a great job!
Don't know what you'd do about Brice though 
I could start a duvet factory here just now   no eggs but plenty of feathers!
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| Lin Dyke |
We had a flyer through our letterbox the other day, advertising free range eggs from one of the houses to the back of us. Must find out more about it. We are allowed to keep poultry (and swine) on our allotments but as far as I am aware nobody has either.
Many years ago we ended up with an ex battery hen. She had literally "fallen off the back of a lorry" which was very likely the last journey she would have made. I'd lent my car to a friend and when he returned it he said "Thanks very much and by the way there's a chicken in the back." Sure enough, there she was, perched on the spare wheel and she had laid an egg  She went to live with the mother in law of one of our employees, who had quite a menagerie. Under Barbara's care she regained condition and was a regular layer  She was lucky Kingsley got stuck behind that lorry and saw her fall off it
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| doganjo |
I love seeing the difference I can make to my ex batts - I had about a dozen back in Aberdeenshire and re-homed them when I moved then got more down here. I have 9 at the moment. No eggs just now though, they are all moulting like it's going out of fashion!
The second photo is as they come, the first one is after two weeks 
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| Jim |
Had Chickens myself in a former life raised them from chicks cos the kids wanted "easter chicks" instead of eggs (they got both as usual) |
| doganjo |
John and I did a 'day old to 13 week free range' batch once - as a project when he was made redundant. He had big feet and couldn't do the 'puppy shuffle' so some suffered their fate from his size 12's, some others stayed out in the snow and got frozen to the wall, the company that were buying them said that some of them had the squits and they couldn't use them, some others they said were underweight. So at the end of the day the exercise cost us £50!!!! Needless to say we didn't repeat the experience!
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