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Topic: Is this true? |
Jools
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Jul 09, 15 2:46 pm Subject: Is this true? |
No, the Beeb article says that it's because of the packing plant. |
Topic: Is this true? |
Jools
Replies: 20
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Jul 09, 15 12:44 pm Subject: Is this true? |
It's now made the news on the Beeb.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-33457704 |
Topic: Is this true? |
Jools
Replies: 20
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Jul 08, 15 7:34 pm Subject: Is this true? |
It's got bugger all to do with DEFRA just the industry standard.
They are 20 to 26 weeks before they start laying & they keep them for about 50 weeks.
Egg quality does suffer after that but only ... |
Topic: Is this true? |
Jools
Replies: 20
Views: 73518
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 07, 15 12:22 pm Subject: Is this true? |
Because of current government guidelines the birds, who currently live at Betty's Farm, in Willington, can only live until the end of August.
The farm’s office manager, Becky Brooks, explained the ... |
Topic: Well's Poultry warning |
Jools
Replies: 7
Views: 28206
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Jul 21, 14 3:13 pm Subject: Well's Poultry warning |
One of his suppliers posted on the MSE thread, saying that he hasn't paid for the items from them, that he's selling on Amazon. ![](images/smiles/lotsofsmilies/angry4.gif) |
Topic: Well's Poultry warning |
Jools
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Jul 09, 14 12:07 pm Subject: Well's Poultry warning |
Exactly, which is why we used them that one time and why I'm now posting a warning here.
Don't want anybody else getting done by them. |
Topic: Well's Poultry warning |
Jools
Replies: 7
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Jul 09, 14 10:38 am Subject: Well's Poultry warning |
We had trouble a couple of years ago when we ordered from them, looks like we're not the only ones as can be seen in this thread over on MSE: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=48659 ... |
Topic: Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival |
Jools
Replies: 6
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Forum: Reviews and What's On Posted: Wed May 14, 14 4:49 pm Subject: Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival |
So, who's going? We're going on Saturday if anyone wants to meet up. |
Topic: Wells Poultry |
Jools
Replies: 6
Views: 7187
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Sep 19, 13 11:54 am Subject: Wells Poultry |
We had the same problem last year. Order took weeks to arrive and they ignored emails and tweets.
Since then, we've used Flyte So Fancy and what a different experience! Fast dispatch, excellent com ... |
Topic: How much for eggs? !!! |
Jools
Replies: 19
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Aug 21, 12 6:10 am Subject: How much for eggs? !!! |
Rob sells ours at his work. We were charging £1 for half a dozen but several people said the eggs were so good they'd willingly pay more, so we upped the price to £1.50. We often don't have enough ... |
Topic: Crushed chick? |
Jools
Replies: 17
Views: 12479
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 10, 12 7:36 pm Subject: Crushed chick? |
Hehe! |
Topic: Crushed chick? |
Jools
Replies: 17
Views: 12479
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 10, 12 6:31 pm Subject: Crushed chick? |
Esme kept wanting to take the departed chick out to the garden to play. I think that might be a bit much for the neighbourhood, me calling "Esme, put the dead chick down. It doesn't want to go t ... |
Topic: Layers pellets |
Jools
Replies: 32
Views: 28366
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon Jul 09, 12 7:47 am Subject: Layers pellets |
Allan and Page are excellent quality. It's what we use and we can't recommend them highly enough. |
Topic: Layers pellets |
Jools
Replies: 32
Views: 28366
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Sun Jul 08, 12 10:47 pm Subject: Layers pellets |
Yeah, ours has gone down. We were getting about 18 a day, but that's dropped to between 10-14 now. |
Topic: Poultry Gallery 2012. |
Jools
Replies: 116
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Jul 05, 12 10:32 pm Subject: Poultry Gallery 2012. |
Blimey, perhaps I should get a cockerel for Petal and start breeding. ![](images/smiles/icon_lol.gif) |
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