Free range?

[Tom D]

We got some ex commercial hens a couple of weeks ago, I had bought ex battery hens before and they were in a pretty poor state, but nothing like as bad as these. They are supposedly from a free range farm.

 

This is what they look like, almost oven ready!

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[easy-lift guy]

Was it a firing range?

elg

[Robert_S]

where did you get that the freeezer at tesco:biggrin:

[Tom D]

where did you get that the freeezer at tesco:biggrin:

Looks that way doesn't it. They were worse when they arrived, the feathers are starting to come back, although the baldest one died last night.

 

 

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[skyhuck]

I've some ex-battery's, but they ain't nothing like that

[Peter]

They generally pick the prettier birds for resale from battery farms, the less fortunate go for cat food or takeaways.

 

Birds can get picked on in any flock, free range or not, and once the bullying starts it is a vicious cycle, the more bald and plucked a bird, the more they get picked on.

[sean]

SHOCKING!!!!!!!!!!

[Charlieh]

not just because its moulting if its been free range, one of my bantys looks similar to that at the moment, and the garden look like they have been plucked out there!

[Jimbob87]

Iv Seen inside alot of big free range barns and IMO free range is not any better than a well run caged unit. For the small % of birds that make it outside the shed into the field most of the time they have very little grass waiting for them more like a puddly field at this time of yr. Most free range units loose masive amounts of birds due to poor health and over production.

 

Free Range is a supermarkets advertising dream for people that have no idea what a free range unit is actually like.

[Johny Walker]

Looks that way doesn't it. They were worse when they arrived, the feathers are starting to come back, although the baldest one died last night.

 

 

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chicken for dinner then ,stuffed wi paxo