This is Dizzy, my middle baby (she is 21 months old) holding her favourite pet chicken, Za Za. They both look a little soggy here, it was taken today when it was pouring with rain. Za Za is a Polish Bantam - she is my fav too at the moment. She literally follows me round the farm and climbs onto my feet waiting to be picked up. I would recommend that if you have kids, you get a couple of Polish bantams, they are so tame (this is apparently because for the majority of the time they cannot see - their amazing crests virtually cover their eyes, although it doesn't seem to stop Za Za and her mate Samson from following us around!)
I will be breeding these from around February 2009, and I'm looking to get some other colours of the same breed in over the next 2 months!
They are amazing!
Are we enlightened? I think not...
Why does anyone still buy battery hen eggs? Are your cheap eggs worth it? I was in Sainsbury's yesterday, and it costs 88p for Sainsbury's cheap eggs from a battery farm, yet I only charge £1 for 6 free rangers - from happy happy birds. We all need to look out for people selling eggs - your locals farms, small holding, look out for people with a sign in the front window saying garden eggs - these are all better than the battery alternative!
I cannot understand how, as an enlightened intelligent race of creatures we can be so destructive to other animals. If you want cheap eggs, get a couple of hens, stick em in your garden and feed them kitchen scraps with a small amount of chicken pellets, and they'll give you years worth of the tastiest, healthiest eggs!
For the sake of saving 20p or so per box, we trap, 19 per square meter these lovely birds in windowless sheds, where they peck, fight, live in their own feces, get acid burns to their skin for a whole year. HOW CAN THAT BE WORTH IT!
Registered with DEFRA
We are registered with DEFRA on the poultry register as is required for businesses who have a flock of more than 50 birds. The DEFRA reference number is RAS/165/116
The Countryside Alliance
Living in Wiltshire, we're about as rural as you get. Countryside abounds us in every direction. We became a member of the countryside alliance in July 2008.
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