|
21-12-2011, 08:27 PM
|
#11 | |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Devon
Posts: 11,365
|
Quote:
__________________
Emma Testudo Hermanni 5.12.2:Theo, Tamara, Tabitha, Harriet, Isabelle, Clara, Oscar, Hugo, Oliver, Florence, Arabella, Esmé, Aurelia, Felicia, Claudia, Atticus, Celestia, Amaris, Tristan and Clementine Budgies: Jasper, Ivo, Otis, Henry, Louie and Luca Doggies: 1.1.0 Chester and Lottie 
|
|
|
|
|
21-12-2011, 09:38 PM
|
#12 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 2,085
|
Omg how awful, so at shops do we need to buy free range? does this mean that they are not from battery hens?
|
|
|
|
|
21-12-2011, 09:52 PM
|
#13 | |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales
Posts: 2,327
|
Quote:
__________________
Ross 
|
|
|
|
|
|
21-12-2011, 10:43 PM
|
#14 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 6,073
|
Free range are more expensive, but what cost can you put on the suffering these hens go through? They spend 18 months of their lives in cages with floor space no bigger than an A4 piece of paper often 2 to a cage. They are fed chemicals to make them lay 2 or more eggs a day, those chemicals are in the eggs that you eat. When they are no longer "useful" as layers, ie when they are too ill or have slowed down laying eggs, at around 18 months, they are loaded into vans and taken to factories, where they have their throats cut and are made into pet food. They never see real daylight or breath fresh air.
Just a word of warning, do not believe the ads for "The happy egg company" it's not true, they are being investigated by the RSPCA for the way the hens are kept, Google it and you will be shocked.
__________________
1.0.1 TG Ibera 1.0.0 Chinese Frise dog 0.1.0 African Grey Parrot 0.1.0 Hahns Macaw 0.1.0 Pearly Conure 0.2.0 Guinea Pigs 0.2.0 Chickens 1.0.0 Bearded Dragon 7.4.0 Budgies 1.1.0 Cockatiels 1.3 Kids 1 Husband Last edited by pagan queen; 22-12-2011 at 12:19 AM. |
|
|
|
|
21-12-2011, 11:39 PM
|
#15 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales
Posts: 2,327
|
This is a video of the condition's of so called 'Happy Hens' http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=ozym6POFfOU
__________________
Ross
|
|
|
|
|
23-12-2011, 02:45 PM
|
#16 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Kent
Posts: 6,073
|
It's awful to see the state of those poor creatures in that vid, when you see the ad on TV you would think they live like gods.
__________________
1.0.1 TG Ibera 1.0.0 Chinese Frise dog 0.1.0 African Grey Parrot 0.1.0 Hahns Macaw 0.1.0 Pearly Conure 0.2.0 Guinea Pigs 0.2.0 Chickens 1.0.0 Bearded Dragon 7.4.0 Budgies 1.1.0 Cockatiels 1.3 Kids 1 Husband |
|
|
|
|
23-12-2011, 02:57 PM
|
#17 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Northern Ireland
Posts: 6,919
|
How awful
 I do only buy free-range eggs anyway
__________________
Busy Mum to ~ 2 Kids, 2 Yorkies, 1 Horsfield, 6 Hermanns, 2 Iberas, 6 Tunisians, 2 Indian Stars and 2 Pancakes 
|
|
|
|
|
24-12-2011, 02:56 AM
|
#18 |
|
Senior Member
Adult
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 4,091
|
I used to buy Happy Egg company eggs until I found out different. I don't understand why it is legal to keep battery hens in this country.
__________________
One by one the Penquins steal my sanity |
|
|
|
 |
| Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
