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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 19:21:36 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO
REPLY.co.uk wrote: "martin" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:24:22 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO REPLY.co.uk wrote: My free range chickens cause no problems at all. I would expect chickens kept in a run to kill any plants by their scratching and digging dust hollows. even the nettles? I only know two people who keep chickens in a run (most around me have free range chickens) and their chickens seem to have a scorched earth policy. Mind you, I do not know if they had nettles in the first place. During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left. -- Martin |
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"Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO REPLY.co.uk wrote in message ... "martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:24:22 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO REPLY.co.uk wrote: My free range chickens cause no problems at all. I would expect chickens kept in a run to kill any plants by their scratching and digging dust hollows. even the nettles? I only know two people who keep chickens in a run (most around me have free range chickens) and their chickens seem to have a scorched earth policy. Mind you, I do not know if they had nettles in the first place. My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Franz |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 20:08:44 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote: "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO REPLY.co.uk wrote in message ... "martin" wrote in message ... On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 16:24:22 +0100, "Howard Neil" hneil@REMOVE TO REPLY.co.uk wrote: My free range chickens cause no problems at all. I would expect chickens kept in a run to kill any plants by their scratching and digging dust hollows. even the nettles? I only know two people who keep chickens in a run (most around me have free range chickens) and their chickens seem to have a scorched earth policy. Mind you, I do not know if they had nettles in the first place. My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? I also thought chickens in a run were free range. I also thought that a run was an outside place where chickens were kept. It seems that chicken run has a more specific meaning nowadays see http://www.henhouses.co.uk/aylesford.html -- Martin |
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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Batteries are small cages which the chickens live in. A sloping wire mesh floor allows eggs to roll out to a ramp outside the cage, thus remaining clean and unpecked. Chickens in a run usually means that there is a wooden chicken house with a wire-netting run attached. (Proper) free-range hens have a chicken house, but are free to invade their neighbours' gardens, get run over in the road, roost in trees or go on holiday with Mr. Fox. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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from martin contains these words: During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left. Ah. I had a grandmother like that. Strangely, she was never without butter, bacon, tea, coffee, sugar, etc. Then again, she had a *LOT* of hens, and a grocer for a next-door neighbour........ -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Chickens are omnivores. Given a the chance they eat grass (lots), seeds, weeds, insects, worms, mice, frogs, bugs, grubs etc. They constantly scratch and peck, foraging for food, even when they have ample commercial food cut into peck-sized pieces and served up in a clean container.The yolk colour and taste of eggs and meat from chickens fed that way is superb; that's what, as a chicken keeper, I classify as freerange chicken. Also, hens dustbath. 4 chickens, put in a fenced grassed run the size of a living room, will soon peck, scratch and dustbath it into a bare earth run devoid of life. One way round this is a moveable run to conserve the grass, and give the birds access to fresh supplies of worms etc. Or, you let them run loose on such a large area that they can never wear down the herbage, which is what we did. We kept a handful of chickens on almost 4 acres and they made no impression on it at all. Janet. |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:25:58 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote: The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Chickens are omnivores. Given a the chance they eat grass (lots), seeds, weeds, insects, worms, mice, frogs, bugs, grubs etc. and each other! They constantly scratch and peck, foraging for food, even when they have ample commercial food cut into peck-sized pieces and served up in a clean container. I tend to do the same :-) The yolk colour and taste of eggs and meat from chickens fed that way is superb; that's what, as a chicken keeper, I classify as freerange chicken. Also, hens dustbath. 4 chickens, put in a fenced grassed run the size of a living room, will soon peck, scratch and dustbath it into a bare earth run devoid of life. One way round this is a moveable run to conserve the grass, and give the birds access to fresh supplies of worms etc. Or, you let them run loose on such a large area that they can never wear down the herbage, which is what we did. We kept a handful of chickens on almost 4 acres and they made no impression on it at all. ah! -- Martin |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:25:58 +0100, Janet Baraclough
wrote: The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Chickens are omnivores. Given a the chance they eat grass (lots), seeds, weeds, insects, worms, mice, frogs, bugs, grubs etc. and each other! They constantly scratch and peck, foraging for food, even when they have ample commercial food cut into peck-sized pieces and served up in a clean container. I tend to do the same :-) The yolk colour and taste of eggs and meat from chickens fed that way is superb; that's what, as a chicken keeper, I classify as freerange chicken. Also, hens dustbath. 4 chickens, put in a fenced grassed run the size of a living room, will soon peck, scratch and dustbath it into a bare earth run devoid of life. One way round this is a moveable run to conserve the grass, and give the birds access to fresh supplies of worms etc. Or, you let them run loose on such a large area that they can never wear down the herbage, which is what we did. We kept a handful of chickens on almost 4 acres and they made no impression on it at all. ah! -- Martin |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:29:07 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades
wrote: The message from martin contains these words: During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left. Ah. I had a grandmother like that. Strangely, she was never without butter, bacon, tea, coffee, sugar, etc. She also kept a pig in a sty and geese. Then again, she had a *LOT* of hens, and a grocer for a next-door neighbour........ amazing, are we related? :-) -- Martin |
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:34:33 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades wrote: (Proper) free-range hens have a chicken house, but are free to invade their neighbours' gardens, get run over in the road, roost in trees or go on holiday with Mr. Fox. We visited Castle Howard a couple of weeks ago and noticed that peacocks were roosting fairly high up in trees. I can't recall seeing a peacock fly. We have never seen grebes fly either. -- Martin |
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On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:33:48 +0200, martin wrote:
We visited Castle Howard a couple of weeks ago and noticed that peacocks were roosting fairly high up in trees. I can't recall seeing a peacock fly. We have never seen grebes fly either. They hide all the climbingtqt in their feathers, well all apart from the geekpeacocks who hollow out the tree and install a lift. -- The Flying Hamster http://www.korenwolf.net/ Programming machines that won't think using an operating system that can't help to give the people who don't want it an application that doesn't work. |
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from martin contains these words: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:29:07 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades wrote: The message from martin contains these words: During the war my grandmother devoted the whole of an extremely large garden to her chickens by 1945 there were only nettles left. Ah. I had a grandmother like that. Strangely, she was never without butter, bacon, tea, coffee, sugar, etc. She also kept a pig in a sty and geese. Then again, she had a *LOT* of hens, and a grocer for a next-door neighbour........ amazing, are we related? :-) sulk I never saw the pig or the geese...... And I thought *I* was he apple of her eye. /sulk -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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from martin contains these words: On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:34:33 +0100, Jaques d'Altrades wrote: (Proper) free-range hens have a chicken house, but are free to invade their neighbours' gardens, get run over in the road, roost in trees or go on holiday with Mr. Fox. We visited Castle Howard a couple of weeks ago and noticed that peacocks were roosting fairly high up in trees. I can't recall seeing a peacock fly. We have never seen grebes fly either. Oh, peafowl fly. A peacock adopted me for a summer and used to roost on my roof. At first light he would stomp up and down the ridge in hobnail boots, uttering piercing whistles. The dwelling being (nominally) a bungalow, and having a corrugated iron lid, this was an unwelcome activity, and had it continued much longer might have introduced me to the delights of roast peacock........ -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 11:00:09 +0100, The Flying Hamster
wrote: On Fri, 03 Oct 2003 10:33:48 +0200, martin wrote: We visited Castle Howard a couple of weeks ago and noticed that peacocks were roosting fairly high up in trees. I can't recall seeing a peacock fly. We have never seen grebes fly either. They hide all the climbingtqt in their feathers, well all apart from the geekpeacocks who hollow out the tree and install a lift. escamemulator shirley? gasp of amazement so! and grebes prefer to travel underwater than fly. what about flying hamsters and pigs? -- Martin |
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"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message ... The message from "Franz Heymann" contains these words: My curiousity drives me to display my ignorance: What is involved in keeping chickens in a run, and what constitutes a free range chicken? Batteries are small cages which the chickens live in. A sloping wire mesh floor allows eggs to roll out to a ramp outside the cage, thus remaining clean and unpecked. Chickens in a run usually means that there is a wooden chicken house with a wire-netting run attached. If you had meant to say ".....chicken house situated in a compound bounded by a wire-netting fence, I would have understood you. (Proper) free-range hens have a chicken house, but are free to invade their neighbours' gardens, get run over in the road, roost in trees or go on holiday with Mr. Fox. -- Rusty Hinge horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm |
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