I totally feel this! I'm away for a week. Spend all day worrying about hens. I have a few 'poorlies'. My friend who is looking after them is a vet, but has no experience with chickens!
When you moan like hell because the pet rabbit digs a hole in the corner of the garden and don't say a word about several large dust bowls in the middle of the garden the chickens dug!
I don't think majority of people really care. All they want is cheap eggs and cheap chicken. I eat chicken (not my own!) I couldn't bring myself to do 'the deed'! and I never need to buy eggs. I always look at where it had come from and never buy any that isn't British and free range. And it...
Thankyou. We have the British Hen Welfare Trust (and others)in UK who work tirelessly rehoming hens. They also campaign for higher welfare standards for commercial hens and have been quite successful. They have managed to rehome over 600,000 hens. I read on a forum on here that it is very...