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!
Battery Hens - Free to Roam
On Saturday 15th November, we are getting another 100 ex-battery hens. These guys will be around 70 weeks old and laying well. Within about 4 weeks of coming out of the battery farm, their eggs go lovely and tasty rather than watery, as the chickens will have chance of varied interesting food, loads of worms and grubs, and will allowed to free range (securely) on our 5 acre paddock.
Eggs are £1.00 for 6 and we ask you to recycle your old egg boxes - you can bring them here and we'll re-use them. The money we make from selling the eggs is enough to cover the cost of the chicken feed, enabling us to take more hens out of battery farms throughout the year.
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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!
Now, I'm NOT against the battery hen farmer, like everyone else he too has to make a living. I just wish society would realise that if we demanded free range, then the farmers could spend a little more and make better conditions - they are after all only providing for market demand - ie us the consumer! Think people, spend a little more on good eggs and you'll change the way it works!
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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