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Old 13-12-2011, 03:09 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Saving hens before EU directive
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.
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