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I just replied on your thread about them. Sounds like quite the menagerie at your house! :D

:hugs sorry for your loss. But she is at peace now.

@Shadrach may be able to help you Meg; hopefully he'll respond to this call when he's up and about

Heads up UK chicken keepers: Farming Today reported that, from October, all backyard chickens (and pigeons etc.) will have to be registered with DEFRA, not just those flocks over 50-strong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001xdpr short mention from 4.20 mins into the programme. I can't...

There's a consultation just out from DEFRA on food labelling that includes chicken and eggs. Have your say if you're in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/consultation-launched-to-make-food-labelling-fairer-and-clearer

hello @Mustang4 , welcome to BYC :frow Ask Mathew Roynon, he's secretary of the Rare Breed Poultry Club in the UK and is most likely to be able to help. [email protected] edited to add, I have a Barbezieux x Swedish Flower hen, looks mostly like a Barbie and lays nice white...

hello Daniel @Daniel Grey :frow welcome to BYC. I am in often rainy but today sunny south Wales :D

Further to the last, this is worth reading https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-07-17/megafarms-uk-intensive-farming-meat The same sort of arguments about competition with the EU and keeping costs down are made there to justify intensive factory farming. The stats, and the recent...

Are you sure modern industrial egg production shouldn't decline? See e.g. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-startling-intelligence-of-the-common-chicken1/ Or Chris van Tulleken's podcast Fed: planet chicken (about meat birds, but much overlap). Real free range producers will use a...

Are you sure they were required to? Weren't the housing orders lifted just before such would become necessary? In 2023, when the order did go beyond 16 weeks over the previous winter and into the spring, the only labelling change I saw in the chain stores was a sheet of A4 (apparently printed...

And we have another nail in the coffin of the term 'free range' https://www.gov.uk/government/news/proposed-changes-to-egg-labelling-rules-support-british-industry A propos the bit that says " Chief Executive of British Free Range Egg Producers Association, Robert Gooch said: “The British Free...

hello Meg :frow Is it you or the Light Sussex hens feeling the cold? Some of my flock left it late to moult and I think they really felt it in last week's cold snap, but it's less frosty today.

I don't think so. At least, yesterday you were the first to respond to my post from October. It doesn't encourage anyone to post here.

something of relevance to UK readers: food fraud hotline announced "Anyone who suspects food fraud can report it to “Food Crime Confidential” on food.gov.uk or by phoning 0800 028 1180 "...

hello @hoppingchicks , welcome to BYC UK thread :frow

hello @Farrari , welcome to BYC :frow I've been to the pooh sticks bridge; the countryside is indeed very pretty round those parts.

All require a prescription from a vet. To stop the sort of irresponsible and ineffective use that has caused widespread antimicrobial resistance, particularly through subclinical use in animals.

Good news for some: "From 23 August 2023 gatherings of galliforme poultry and galliforme birds including gatherings of chickens, turkeys, pheasants, partridge, quail and guinea fowl are permitted. You need to follow the requirements of the poultry gathering general licence and notify the Animal...

hello @parsnips - welcome to UK thread of BYC :frow I see you've caught the chicken bug already :D

Hello @CITYS84 and @Ruthey :frow welcome to BYC