Leicester_H Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7986598.stm whilst initially it seems like a good report, I have some concerns if rehoming chickens does become 'trendy' and people get into it for the wrong reasons. I assume prospective adopters are 'vetted'/counselled in some way ?? H Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I was neither vetted nor counselled. Just asked some basic questions about what facilities I was offering for the hens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodge Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 Whilst your concern's are understandable, the stark alternative of someone, anyone not adopting/rescuing a battery hen is that the hen is fed into a mincing machine to make pet food. Don't forget that the poor battery hen has lived no existed in a wire cage about the same size as an A4 piece of paper. So any life after that has got to be an improvement in its quality of life. As a nation of animal lovers and due to all the adverse TV coverage of the plight of battery hens, I think that the vast majority of hens adopted will go to loving homes as demonstrated by the kindly people on this forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A chickychickychick-ENN!! Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I'm both heartened and cross about this. It's so good that so many people want to adopt hens. Big yay for that. And that's such a sweet positive little film. But there's a little bit of me that thinks so long as people buy up the 'used up' chickens, then the industry thinks it can just keep on breeding battery hens. We need a change in legislation so that they have a minimum care standard while being used for food production. Actually, wouldn't it be good if BHWT could get every hen adopter to sign up to a petition or campaigning for that to happen? If they've seen a fourfold increase in adoptions, which means hen keeping is snowballing, imagine the amount of support they could get and noise all those supporters could make if it's a condition of adoption that they support some lobbying work to make battery conditions better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 7, 2009 Share Posted April 7, 2009 I'm both heartened and cross about this. It's so good that so many people want to adopt hens. Big yay for that. And that's such a sweet positive little film. But there's a little bit of me that thinks so long as people buy up the 'used up' chickens, then the industry thinks it can just keep on breeding battery hens. We need a change in legislation so that they have a minimum care standard while being used for food production. Actually, wouldn't it be good if BHWT could get every hen adopter to sign up to a petition or campaigning for that to happen? If they've seen a fourfold increase in adoptions, which means hen keeping is snowballing, imagine the amount of support they could get and noise all those supporters could make if it's a condition of adoption that they support some lobbying work to make battery conditions better? I think thats a really good idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
