wellingtonfarmer
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Hearing egg prices are under pressure again and drops imminent.
The job is officially f**ked.
The job is officially f**ked.
Unfortunately this has been predicted over the last year or two. The buyers have got control now with lots of new, enthusiastic producers with big shiny new sheds pumping out lots of eggs.Hearing egg prices are under pressure again and drops imminent.
The job is officially fudgeed.
If the public and the buyers knew the truth about free range egg production they would probably be happy to buy caged eggs
All these 16,000 , 32000 bird units are really not free range at all , they should close the pop holes and produce barn eggs from them units as that is much cleaner , much more welfare friendly and more efficient
The con job that free range has become will be exposed at some point
Exposed in what way. No rules are being broken.
Let me guess you think eggs should be collected in baskets and cows milked by hand
because the rules are 'pants'
free range isn't natural for chickens who are descended from jungle fowl....who lived...well....on the jungle floor.....planting a few saplings on grass fields is nowhere near....be far better in airy deep litter barns with plenty of space to roam
And sheep descended from slatted sheds packed to rafters breed to carry multiple lambs then?
and these factory farmed sheep are where exactly
If the public and the buyers knew the truth about free range egg production they would probably be happy to buy caged eggs
All these 16,000 , 32000 bird units are really not free range at all , they should close the pop holes and produce barn eggs from them units as that is much cleaner , much more welfare friendly and more efficient
The con job that free range has become will be exposed at some point
BFREPA say there are enough hen sheds already , and Tesco now say if the public want a low price value egg we will supply it and that's enriched egg, they also say they have to support the farmers who spent millions building enriched production 5 years ago.
Hearing egg prices are under pressure again and drops imminent.
The job is officially fudgeed.
The hens in colony cages are not housed individually, I think there are 80 birds so plenty of scope for pecking. That said I also saw the programme and was not convinced the birds were the same age and unfortunately feather pecking can be an issue in any system.Was a tv programme the other day with a caged hen pecked to bits.
I did think about calling to point out if the hen had been in a single battery cage on its own bullying wouldn't have taken place.
Read a book by a farmer (doug avery) and he requested a caged egg for breakfast at a restaurant! The young waitress didn't understand until he explained the above. She said she'd always eat eggs from caged hens in future!
Not round here.Majority of sheep are lambed indoors and a lot of lambs are fatttened of slats? Probably nothing like the public think where there lamb comes from
The con job that free range has become will be exposed at some point
Exposed for exactly what it is , The dirtiest most diseased way to produce eggs
Free Range has the highest mortality by a very long way , Free range use the most antibiotics by along way , Free range have the most disease challenges , Do i really need to go on
Mortality rates should be the main indicator when considering the welfare of any animal
There is plenty of great Free Range producers but the Free Range marketing is completly misleading to the consumer