4m x 3m Omlet pen, cube, new auto door still boxed and coop light

[Old Speckled Hen]

After reading Poet's thread on co-op sausages and lovemychook's reply about "outdoor reared" pigs I found this from Saturday's Telegraph

http://www.laverstokepark.co.uk/home

 

The meat is expensive but if you check out how all his animals (including hens) live it's not surprising, and I'd rather go without than eat intensively produced animals.

 

He also has his own slaughterhouse and has researched and implemented low stress conditions.

 

I'm going to give it a try and stock up for next month.

 

Has anybody living near there tried the shop?

[BarbaraJ]

Nice stuff on there, beef is good. i try at least to buygood free range chicken but won't be paying £14 for a whole chicken

[The Dogmother]

I can buy a whole, free range chicke from a local farm for about £7-8 depending on weight.

[Old Speckled Hen]

I can buy a whole, free range chicke from a local farm for about £7-8 depending on weight.

 

Thanks Claret, Morrisons do them even cheaper and I have no end of local producers here in Cumbria .... no, I was concerned more with the pork and I have to consider what happens to calves born to milk producing cows.

I was taken with the buffalo, especially the cheese and the milk.

[Leicester_H]

Sainsbury's have whole free range chickens (they name the farms they come from) - from about £6 - depending on size.

They now also have free range thighs, and some other cuts

- but never wings - what ever happens to these ??(I know they're the cheapest bits but I miss having them as I can never find free range ones)

[The Dogmother]

I worry about pork too DA, even more perhaps because pigs are so human and intelligent. I'd rather eat my eglu than eat intensively farmed pork. Even the pup eats happy meat!

[BarbaraJ]

I can buy a whole, free range chicke from a local farm for about £7-8 depending on weight.

Your lucky i would rather shop at farm shops but nothing local here have to use supermarkets

[Guest]

you might be surprised at what free range food is avalable to you locally, I found places I didn't know existed by using the post code search on www.freerangereview.com

[chooklady]

Sainsbury's have whole free range chickens (they name the farms they come from) - from about £6 - depending on size.

They now also have free range thighs, and some other cuts

- but never wings - what ever happens to these ??(I know they're the cheapest bits but I miss having them as I can never find free range ones)

 

Waitrose do free range chicken wing packs, about 8 in a pack I believe.

[The Dogmother]

There's also a BigBarn newsletter - I don't have the link to hand, but it's another directory of locally produced stuff.

[Egluntyne]

Just as an aside.......if you click on the 'About us' tab you will see that the company is owned by Jody Scheckter, the former F1 driver.

[Lesley]

Sainsbury's have whole free range chickens (they name the farms they come from) - from about £6 - depending on size.

They now also have free range thighs, and some other cuts

- but never wings - what ever happens to these ??(I know they're the cheapest bits but I miss having them as I can never find free range ones)

 

 

You can buy wings online from http://www.sheepdrove.com - in pack size of your choice. I buy them for the dog, in packs of 2. They also do 'Doggy Bags' and all sorts of offal - we had a massive Ox Heart from them. Excellent delivery service as well.

 

If we send our table birds to the next farm to be plucked then they always come back without wings - ahter plucking a few ourselves we can understand why

 

I remember when Hugh set up his barns last year that he wasn't happy about the chicks being thrown out - but he was told it is the best way to get them out without any injuries. It doesn't look nice though

[..lay a little egg for me]

you might be surprised at what free range food is avalable to you locally, I found places I didn't know existed by using the post code search on http://www.freerangereview.com

 

I tried that, Poet, but unfortunately, they didn't have the farm shop about 4 miles away that I know about but suggested places that are over 40 miles from me...not very local!

[abwsco]

you might be surprised at what free range food is avalable to you locally, I found places I didn't know existed by using the post code search on http://www.freerangereview.com

 

I tried that, Poet, but unfortunately, they didn't have the farm shop about 4 miles away that I know about but suggested places that are over 40 miles from me...not very local!

 

I think the distances must be as the crow flies as they said one was 17 miles away from me yet I know it's nowhere like that as it would take me 3/4 hour down the motorway to get there.

[BarbaraJ]

you might be surprised at what free range food is avalable to you locally, I found places I didn't know existed by using the post code search on http://www.freerangereview.com

 

i tried

20 miles for free range chicken

farm shop 20 miles

veg 26miles away

 

[The Dogmother]

That's a pain

 

Do you know whether you have any farmers' markets near you? That way the produce comes to you.

[BarbaraJ]

We get one about 15miles away the first saturday in the month thats it and i keep missing it with other arrangements . it was ok but not brilliant!

[The Dogmother]

Did you check here?

 

http://www.farmersmarkets.net/

 

I know that some areas are sp"Ooops, word censored!" - my folks also live in Herts and there aren't any near them either.

[BarbaraJ]

Thanks will have a look!