On Jul 7, 2:20 pm, Sacha wrote:
On 7/7/08 14:00, in article
, "Judithin France" wrote:

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I thought, obviously wrongly, that the chickens
were killed in the winter, this is what my neighbour does?

Judith

Is that to avoid having to feed them all winter when, in your cold weather,
they go off lay? You might have to bring them into your barn and give them
something like a heat lamp in a fenced off area. It would be worth asking
the neighbours what they did. We kept ours until they were too old to lay
any more and then the nuns who ran a local old peoples' home took them for
soup!

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Sacha

It's what the neighbours here do, nobody seems to keep hens in the
Winter.

Judith

My guess is that the extreme cold puts them offlay and this is why they're
killed off. But your best bet by far, is to ask a neighbour. And are you
prepared to bump them off?

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Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

Not only am I not prepared to bump them off, neither will I eat them.
I cook chicken for the family but I can't bear to eat the flesh, don't
ask me why, I just don't know. I don't eat chicken but I love chicken
soup!!

Judith