Re: Free range as stressed as battery birds


"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Amy Blankenship" <Amy_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:

Well, he would, wouldn't he!

So, Jill, are you going to fasten up all your hens and use the land
for something else?

My hens would be very much more stressed indoors.

Quite.

But I am not one of those who condemns battery out of hand as others
do.

I know :-)

I want to remove cowboys in all fields but battery per se is not all
evil.
There is as much bad husbandry in backyards and big fields as there is
in battery units.

That doesn't mean that ALL free range is stressful.

My birds don't cower at shadows.

Nor do mine :-)

And they know the difference between a vulture and a hawk.

We don't have either in the city but on daughter's farm in Wales they
don't worry about kites, buzzards or other raptors even though they don't
see them at home.

We once had some sort of chicken hawk or something sitting on our chicken
coop. The chickens hid inside until I went out and persuaded it to leave.


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