Sheepdog Lady
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« on: 25 January, 2009, 07:08:17 PM » |
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Would anyone be interested in re-homing an ex-battery hen? I was moved by their plight and will be taking a couple in when they are rescued from their farm near Norwich in a couple of weeks. Apparently, they will have 3,000 to re-home! Please visit their web site littlehenrescue.co.uk even if you can only take in just a couple.
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« Reply #1 on: 01 February, 2009, 03:13:12 PM » |
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Are they oven ready or does one have to look after them etc.
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« Reply #2 on: 01 February, 2009, 05:31:53 PM » |
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You'd need a big freezer for 3,000 of them Vicar!
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« Reply #3 on: 01 February, 2009, 05:56:01 PM » |
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Not if we are due snow frost etc, they will keep for a while yet.
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« Reply #4 on: 05 February, 2009, 12:05:46 PM » |
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Oh, ha ha, my sides are splitting. They have a no-cull policy, so pets only I'm afraid. Mind you, they are apparently in a pretty poor state, so doubt they would look appetizing even if they were for the pot!
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« Reply #5 on: 09 February, 2009, 05:24:14 PM » |
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I'm glad I made you laugh. So if they all died suddenly of mange, could you then eat then.
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« Reply #6 on: 13 February, 2009, 06:31:07 PM » |
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Theoretically you could, but uurrrgghh! Would you? We got 4 in the end and they are a little bald to say the least, so if they should "croak" it there wouldn't be much plucking involved! I could just put one in your oven and turn it on low ready for when you get home on Friday!!!
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« Reply #7 on: 16 February, 2009, 07:30:14 PM » |
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As long as you put some spuds and veg in at the same time. And clean up after yourself.
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« Reply #8 on: 17 February, 2009, 09:40:59 AM » |
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We had 3 ex-battery hens about 5 years ago, now have 1 left 'Beanie', these hens are very 'streetwise' and fear nothing, if they were human they'd carry a knife! Beanie regularly corners our Rottweiler cross in the garden and reduced her to a quivering wreck.
She even squares up to me.
So Vicar you want one for the pot? You put it in!! lol
I have passed the details to my brother in law who already has a flock.
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« Reply #9 on: 20 February, 2009, 07:28:24 AM » |
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Can it square up to a box of paxo or a 12 guague
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« Reply #10 on: 28 February, 2009, 03:21:36 PM » |
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Don't know about being bold, mine seem fairly timid. They certainly do respect the "eye" of a collie, who helps me heard them to bed sometimes. It took them a couple of days to venture outside the hen house - admittedly it was cold and they had no feathers, but even now they are reluctant to venture too far out in the open. They all seem to have stubbly growth of feathers, and are eating and drinking well, they haven't laid any eggs are far as I know, unless they have done so in the hedges!
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« Reply #11 on: 05 May, 2009, 12:04:35 AM » |
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We took on 20 hens from the LHR centre yesterday. The poor things have no sense of time and dont do or know anything what a normal hen does. Hopefully their natural instincts will present themselves with time. In the meantime, I am mother hen showing them what, where and how :-)
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« Reply #12 on: 05 May, 2009, 11:46:35 AM » |
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20  You could end up with a lot of eggs. |
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