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He's just shown what happens to unwanted male chicks.

What channel TW?


Caz x

Channel 4 Caz

He is talking about the entire chicken production processes, and started with sorting females from males, and showed there and then how they cull the males. Just a little chamber where they are deprived of oxygen. He jsut did it there and then in front of the cameras

Was just about to post the same thing. Didn't have a clue that's what happened

Saw Hugh FW the other night and can't even bear to contemplate eating chicken yet alone watch another tv prog about it!

Good job he is bringing it to the attention of the people.......bet loads of people just switch off.
Amanda

just said to hubby never thought about it before just hit me.

did you see the hugh fearnley programme the other night I walked past the chickens in tesco this week couldnt face them knowing what they had been through

Going to watch, i buy free range, guess im not going to like,


Caz x

The truth is though, he is not trying to put us off chickens, but to promote better farming methods rather than the high yield high profit processes that they have to go through now.

No I didn't watch Hughs chicken run, wish I had.

I often wondered where zoos etc get their chicks to feed to their reptiles and birds...of course, its the unwanted male chicks from the industry.

So what happens to Daddy cows and daddy pigs!!!???

makes you think dont it ........

This is my biggest bug bare.......what we aint told coz of what we WANT

Free Range are no better. In fact some would argue that it is even less humane to produce eggs this way.

To qualify for free range, all that has to happen is for a single door to be kept open to the outside.

As chickens are naturally territorial, the scene by the door is not a pretty site. Suffice it to say "Survival of the fittest"

yep that sis so Peter .....but also ....WHEN was that egg laid!!??....and how often are they collected

Yes but at least they are not walking on wire cages, four to a tiny cage, and once outside they can forage and roll about.

Kem, they are collected twice a day where my BIL works, they start at one end and work their way to the other, then start all over again, every day.

I get our eggs from a farm close to where my little ones go to school and they are treated very well,


What worries me is other egg source produce,


Caz x

i chose not to watch it cos seen it before, i do my bit in buying but wish i could rescue all the factory farmed!!!!

thats why for years i get mine off friend..they are fresh that day,,,and hers run everywhere,,in the house if they can--- often !!!!!!!,,,,,,,,plus I dont eat chicken but I dont like it,,,,

Hugh's intensive farming set up was no where near reality... he kept them very clean, this is not the 'norm' unfortunately.
In most of these intensively reared units the ammonia is a serious issue, as is the amount of muck produced - detrimental to the health of the birds.

He's just talking about the ammonia burns now.