Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Shadrach]

72km is a long ride! Does she often ride that distance?

She usually throws herself down some mountain track. She has been spending more time recently on her road bike at the weekend.

 

[Perris]

After a few flutterings around, the girls are surprisingly unbothered. They like to come up to the hardware cloth to stare. Otherwise, they just seem to be saying, “Huh.”

that is why juveniles struggle to survive their first week without mum

 

[Perris]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...be-classified-as-industrial-waste-judge-rules

that is the BEST news I've heard for a long time.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

that is the BEST news I've heard for a long time.

X2

 

[BDutch]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...be-classified-as-industrial-waste-judge-rules

Hope this only applies for factory farming and NOT for circular agriculture with chickens. In my country life is hard for organic farmers and circular agriculture bc of the rules that were made bc of the environmental damage caused by factory farming. While organic/circular farming often do no harm, they have much more trouble (cost’s) to live by such new rules and regulations.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

that is why juveniles struggle to survive their first week without mum

I need to ask the seller if she had a broody around them at all. I know that they were raised out-of-doors, and with an open, unheated coop.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Chicken tax: finally, a sunbeam:

 

[Perris]

Hope this only applies for factory farming

That is what the article says, and it's not retrospective. Any new massive chicken farms seeking planning permission will be subject to existing legislation on dealing with their industrial waste (i.e. massive amounts of chicken poo).

I cannot see it impacting small scale farmers except in a beneficial way, making mega farms' operating costs more realistic, instead of letting them continue to dump the costs of cleaning up their waste on others: the public purse, or the water companies, or everything that lives in the environment downstream or downwind from them.

 

[Molpet]

https://www.theguardian.com/environ...be-classified-as-industrial-waste-judge-rules

This is what my state has.
https://www.ilfb.org/resources/farm...term=6708965209035&utm_campaign=6708965208635


Distance is in feet

 

[Shadrach]

Hope this only applies for factory farming and NOT for circular agriculture with chickens. In my country life is hard for organic farmers and circular agriculture bc of the rules that were made bc of the environmental damage caused by factory farming. While organic/circular farming often do no harm, they have much more trouble (cost’s) to live by such new rules and regulations.

Thing is it's no good the backyard movement washing it's hands of the problem of chicken waste. 1000000 chickens is still 1000000 chickens be they concentrated in one place, or spread over miles.