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lid says...

On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:14:51 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote:

On Dec 13, 3:09*pm, Janet wrote:
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says...



According to Amateur gardener this week battery hens must be abolished
by January and the British hen Welfare Trust thinks that nearly 300,000
will be killed as they won't be able to find homes for them..

* That is nothing new, premature death has always been the inevitable fate
of battery hens as soon as their egg production rate falls off...usually
less than a year after they started laying.

* The UK will continue commercial egg production from hens that spend
their entire short life in cages; just very slightly larger cages than the
previous "battery" ones.

* *Janet.

Here are the new regulations http://www.broodyhen.co.uk/ket/fowln.../ecdirect.html

So 250 square centimetres more space per hen. Hardly earth shattering.

The new cages provide each hen a space the size of an A4 sheet of pape
:-(

http://www.rspca.org.uk/media/news/s...tMustStandUpFo
rHenWelfare_Nov11

quote

"Eggs as ingredients

Foods such as cakes or mayonnaise made with free-range eggs will often be
clearly advertised with the information on the packaging or in the
ingredients list.
Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and The Co-operative use free range
eggs in their own brand products or shoppers can look for Extra Special
from Asda, The Best from Morrisons and The Finest range from Tesco."

end quote

Janet.

Martin wrote in
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:14:51 -0800 (PST), Dave Hill
wrote:

On Dec 13, 3:09*pm, Janet wrote:
In article ,
says...



According to Amateur gardener this week battery hens must be
abolished by January and the British hen Welfare Trust thinks that
nearly 300,000 will be killed as they won't be able to find homes
for them..

* That is nothing new, premature death has always been the
inevitable fate of battery hens as soon as their egg production rate
falls off...usually less than a year after they started laying.

* The UK will continue commercial egg production from hens that
spend their entire short life in cages; just very slightly larger
cages than the previous "battery" ones.

* *Janet.

Here are the new regulations
http://www.broodyhen.co.uk/ket/fowln.../ecdirect.html

So 250 square centimetres more space per hen. Hardly earth shattering.

Yes Martin, but a step in the right direction. The goal is free to roam but
will it eventualy happen? I think it will, but by degrees and will put up
the price of our eggs. It would surely create employment?

Baz

In article , Baz
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Yes Martin, but a step in the right direction. The goal is free to roam but
will it eventualy happen? I think it will, but by degrees and will put up
the price of our eggs. It would surely create employment?

Baz

The hundred if not thousands of hens currently running around the
various wired off bits of Raans farm in Amersham have the right to roam
but only their part of the field, they have numerous flocks all
segregated by wired fences and the local foxes of course make a bee line
for them. They hens flap up and over the fencing and walk up and down
the footpath running alongside the field, whether they all go back into
their wooden arks affairs at night is anyone's guess. Not sure if that's
in the spirit of free to roam
--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

Premature death is already the inevitable fate of most male chicks, just crushed and discarded.