Hellcat Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Just watched the One Show. Great performances from our omleteers. As for the farmer, wittering on about diseases which could be spread from our chickens to his - surely we are much more aware if our chooks are under the weather? How can he check all 6000 of his birds each day, as we do? Idiot! we are more likely to get diseases from him and his chickens/eggs than the other way round. Do I get the feeling that battery farmers are becoming concerned about the amount of us NOT willing to buy their eggs, and want to scare off the rest of the public? I think so! Grrrrrrrr Rant over. Feel free to join in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I didnt think the report was very good at all. It didnt really answer the viewers question. The politically correct BBC of couse had to hi light all the disease aspect and frighten everyone in the land NOT to own a chicken ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Very dissapointing. It wasn't a battery farmer it was a barn chicken farmer. The chickens had slightly more room to move about in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 Very dissapointing. It wasn't a battery farmer it was a barn chicken farmer. The chickens had slightly more room to move about in! Yes, thank you Mr Pedant (go and look it up). i know it was a barn farmer, which is almost as bad as battery! You got my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CannyCat Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 It was appaulling wasn't it?! 30 seconds on how great eggs taste, and five minutes on diseases. I also felt they didn't make it sufficiently clear that they were talking chicken-to-chicken diseases, and not chicken-to-human diseases. But lets face it - the farmer isn't exactly unbiased - remember he benefits from people being too afraid to keep their own chickens. I just hope my neighbours weren't watching - my chooks are coming on Thursday!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 im with you canny cat..my eglu comes next thursday! hope my neighbours didnt see! hubby just said all our chooks are way better looked after than anything on a commercial scale.... do his hens get raisins??!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 They love raisins! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightworker01 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I'm very annoyed about this. I asked them to do an article on the Eglu and urban chicken owners. I didn't ask them to do a stupid article on diseases that would, in all honesty, unlikely occur because the Omlet chickens are fully vaccinated (which wasn't mentioned!). I think everyone should send in complaints about the article, I have already! Totally typical! Bleeding Barn Farmer! what was that about - is HE an URBAN Barn farmer? Was that his South London home? No, so what the hell was the point in talking to him, and his idea of chicken happiness. Those birds had nothing to do, no grass to peck etc etc... The BBC has let Omlet down. I was expecting an interview with Johannes or something - they took just over a week to do that article, and it had nothing to do with the two things I asked them to do an article about! BOOO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 WOW ....... just read a few posts, and as an OLDIE regards Eglu hens, I too remarked to O.H about the negativity re. hen keeping, and the threat to the big boys. I likened it to having hens for lovely fresh eggs, then popping down to a local barn ( like the one shown) to pick up eggs . Surely the point of us having hens is to totally AVOID places like that . By the way "Hi, to all peeps" here on the forum, I am still around, even if I don't post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Nice to see you on here Sarah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I'm very annoyed about this. I asked them to do an article on the Eglu and urban chicken owners. I didn't ask them to do a stupid article on diseases that would, in all honesty, unlikely occur because the Omlet chickens are fully vaccinated (which wasn't mentioned!). I think everyone should send in complaints about the article, I have already! Totally typical! Bleeding Barn Farmer! what was that about - is HE an URBAN Barn farmer? Was that his South London home? No, so what the hell was the point in talking to him, and his idea of chicken happiness. Those birds had nothing to do, no grass to peck etc etc... The BBC has let Omlet down. I was expecting an interview with Johannes or something - they took just over a week to do that article, and it had nothing to do with the two things I asked them to do an article about! BOOO who do I e mail to complain to?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 who do I e mail to complain to?! I think Martin may have pipped me ...... but there should be a section on this re. feedback, on the one show link in earlier posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicola H Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Hi Sarah, I agree what a shame they hi-lighted the threat of disease rather than the benefits of keeping free range chooks. The guy who owned the chicken farm got more coverage than the Omlet hen keepers I thought the idea was to show people how easy it was to keep hens in your back yard.............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swindon_clucker Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I think the idea of everyone emailing them to give em a dang good tongue lashing is great I've already done and said you've got yourself into a whole heap of trouble by upsetting the omlet community Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I totally agree. It was an outrageous report and what was its point? It didn't seem to have one. I kept waiting for them to go back to Omlet/Johnannes but they didn't. The report on the website says that chickens are prone to salmonella and backyard chickens could be a risk to farm chickens. 1) it's the other way round. Chickens are more likely to get sick when kept in large numbers and 2) how many of us take our precious girls on visits to farms or even visit these farms ourselves. We all know to take precautions if we've been in contact with other chickens I hope everyone here bombards them with complaining emails. Let's show them just how large the Omlet community is! The address is theoneshow@bbc.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 IVE E MAILED the show to vent my Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SarahJo Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Thanks Ginette ... reporting our disgust is now made one step easier. Poor Karen ... 3hrs filming - 30seconds reporting on the PROPER way to keep chooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightworker01 Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 E-mail them @ theoneshow@bbc.co.uk PLEASE INCLUDE THIS INFORMATION IN YOUR TOUNGE LASHING -------------------------------- the Eglu decreases the risk of birds getting diseases and mites, because of its well thought out and clever design. -------------------------------- I have e-mailed them already - I'll see what they say. POST your e-mail replies up here when you get them - OR BETTER yet do it on the original post (my one - EXTRA EXTRA - The BBC One Show wants you) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HennyPenny Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 As an ex-PR person, I should know that the media will never let the facts get in the way of a more 'newsworthy' (i.e. scaremongering) story but I was extremely disappointed by the programme. It started promisingly enough and I was expecting to see some kind of montage of all the eglus and chook pics that I know we all emailed the programme to go with the great video of egluowners (and Johannes, of course) but instead we saw scary protective clothing and thousands of sad-looking chickens in a shed! My theory is that it started as a nice 'Good Life' piece and then someone mentioned Bird Flu and they thought they'd better put something in, just in case some sad person contacted the Beeb to remind them of all their dire warnings just some months ago. Well, I'm not a sad person (although I'm a bit miserable after that show!) but I'll certainly be contacting them now!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnnieP Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 Can we all restrict our comments to the original thread: Its getting very confusing to follow! BBC wants you etc, started by lightworker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellcat Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 For your perusal, a copy of my feedback to the beeb. I was appalled by the article on urban chicken keeping. as a domestic chicken keeper I was looking forward to a good, well balanced article showing how easy and rewarding it is to keep your own hens and get your own, beautiful eggs. What actually happened was that Omlet (the featured company) were shown only briefly while the barn farmer (who surely cannot check all 6000 of his hens every day as we urban chicken keepers do) had the biggest say and intimated that we urban chicken keepers would endanger the health of his flock. This is not what I call a balanced article and I am disappointed that the BBC would be so one sided. I also added I would be happy to discuss it further...we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Frugal Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I've locked this and all the other topics except one so that all the postings stay in one place as we've managed to get at least 4 topics out of one subject - not like us at all, is it . Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
