A new app that let's you point your phone at a carton of eggs and see just how "free range" they really are is exciting news. Given we are getting hoodwinked by egg producers getting us to pay extra for eggs that are not really what the average consumer would expect for "free range" (as in "free access to range in a pasture" or similar ) thanks to misguided government regulations this is a great thing. Apparently the latest regs allow birds in very different conditions from this to be classed as free range (seriously who are these people and do they not have families friends and a conscience?)
grrrr
Download the app and give yourselves the power of the truth!
http://newthings.choice.com.au/cluckar/
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Fiona and the chickens of Australia
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
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A really lovely little video I found via Brain Pickings Weekly
and to think I was toying with the idea of unsubscribing because I get so many emails~!
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Friday, 13 November 2015
Spring chickens
My LSOH and I have just done a 1.5 hr round trip to Greensborough to collect two brand new hatchlings to put under my mother hen, Shelley Winters.
Shelley ended up with just the one chicklet hatching, but now the solo hatchling (A Columbian Wyandotte if anyone is into that level of detail) has two adopted sisters (well, hopefully not brothers! No roosters in this little corner of suburbia please).
Thought they are different colours and breeds, I don’t think chickens are racist.
One is a pale lemon fluffy pom- pom headed Polish (who, if I was a daggy kind of chook owner, might get named "Sherbie" ...and likely will).
The other is a strawberry roan Rhode Island Red who may get called Katie after Katherine Hepburn (one of only two natural Hollywood red heads btw). Both are bantams and just hatched in the last 24hrs and in case you thought we were stealing them away from their "real mother" .
Shelley ended up with just the one chicklet hatching, but now the solo hatchling (A Columbian Wyandotte if anyone is into that level of detail) has two adopted sisters (well, hopefully not brothers! No roosters in this little corner of suburbia please).
Thought they are different colours and breeds, I don’t think chickens are racist.
One is a pale lemon fluffy pom- pom headed Polish (who, if I was a daggy kind of chook owner, might get named "Sherbie" ...and likely will).
The other is a strawberry roan Rhode Island Red who may get called Katie after Katherine Hepburn (one of only two natural Hollywood red heads btw). Both are bantams and just hatched in the last 24hrs and in case you thought we were stealing them away from their "real mother" .
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