Comments on: Hugh’s Chicken Run http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/ Vegetable Fruit & Herb Growing on my Allotment Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:05:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: John http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3400 John Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:20:37 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3400 Hi Jane - even non-cuddly creatures deserve some quality of life though. It's a mystery to me that if you kept a pet animal in the same conditions the industry keeps chickens the RSPCA would, rightly, have you in court. Hi Jane – even non-cuddly creatures deserve some quality of life though. It’s a mystery to me that if you kept a pet animal in the same conditions the industry keeps chickens the RSPCA would, rightly, have you in court.

]]> By: Jane Knight http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3399 Jane Knight Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3399 I kept backyard chickens 20+ years ago. Killing them was dificult, but I have to say they are not cuddly birds and they cheerfully kill each other! I kept backyard chickens 20+ years ago. Killing them was dificult, but I have to say they are not cuddly birds and they cheerfully kill each other!

]]> By: John http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3368 John Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:14:25 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3368 Thanks Karen. I think a lot of people won't have the courage to slaughter their own chickens but hopefully there will be a lot more people enjoying free range fresh eggs from their own birds. Thanks Karen. I think a lot of people won’t have the courage to slaughter their own chickens but hopefully there will be a lot more people enjoying free range fresh eggs from their own birds.

]]> By: Karen http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3367 Karen Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:06:31 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3367 I agree with you, it did take courage to make and show the programme. I also agree with you that there will be an initial surge and following fallback, but hopefully the long term trend will be a decline in the keeping of chickens in such a way. I keep chickens myself and I know just how good free range chicken tastes. My chickens have a good life up to the point of slaughter and I feel comfortable, as a meat eater, that I have done all I can to look after them well. I do appreciate that not everyone is lucky enough to keep chickens, but I do think we have a responsibility to rear animals in a humane way and with dignity. Karen, Wiggly Wigglers I agree with you, it did take courage to make and show the programme. I also agree with you that there will be an initial surge and following fallback, but hopefully the long term trend will be a decline in the keeping of chickens in such a way. I keep chickens myself and I know just how good free range chicken tastes. My chickens have a good life up to the point of slaughter and I feel comfortable, as a meat eater, that I have done all I can to look after them well. I do appreciate that not everyone is lucky enough to keep chickens, but I do think we have a responsibility to rear animals in a humane way and with dignity.

Karen, Wiggly Wigglers

]]> By: John http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3365 John Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:46:47 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3365 Well, all livestock require care every day for starters. So you're tied unless you can find someone (like a neighbour) to cover. Yes, we're squeamish and divorced from the reality of our food supply. We no longer see pig's heads and carcases hanging in butchers. Meat comes wrapped in plastic sitting in little trays. Well, all livestock require care every day for starters. So you’re tied unless you can find someone (like a neighbour) to cover.
Yes, we’re squeamish and divorced from the reality of our food supply. We no longer see pig’s heads and carcases hanging in butchers. Meat comes wrapped in plastic sitting in little trays.

]]> By: Tracy http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3362 Tracy Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:57:01 +0000 http://www.allotment.org.uk/garden-diary/184/hughs-chicken-run/#comment-3362 I didn't see the programme as I don't watch much tv but anything that encourages others to keep chickens must be ok. My gran kept chickens and so did all her neighbours (and she lived in town). She even killed them herself or else there was no Sunday lunch. We have got very nesh about this. You don't have to be a cruel person to eat the animals you have raised, you just have to get real. I would also say that I think chickens are really easy to keep, you don't need loads of space and they give back in eggs and meat. Why doesn't everyone keep them? I didn’t see the programme as I don’t watch much tv but anything that encourages others to keep chickens must be ok. My gran kept chickens and so did all her neighbours (and she lived in town). She even killed them herself or else there was no Sunday lunch. We have got very nesh about this. You don’t have to be a cruel person to eat the animals you have raised, you just have to get real.
I would also say that I think chickens are really easy to keep, you don’t need loads of space and they give back in eggs and meat. Why doesn’t everyone keep them?

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