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[WarrensWorld]

Just read this in the Guardian. Interesting video too.

 

Cube,Chickens, and Foxed in Hackney.

[sadietoo]

Slightly concerned about the Marmite on toast...thought it would be far too salty??? still the chooks seem to be ok on it...don't think I'll try it though!!

[Blackrocksrock]

Is it anyone on the forum?? Great to show how it can be done too.

[Egluntyne]

Fascinating stuff.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I thought that was really good .

[Lewis]

Slightly concerned about the Marmite on toast...thought it would be far too salty??? still the chooks seem to be ok on it...don't think I'll try it though!!

I think Omlet suggest marmite on toast when you first get your chickens

 

I thought it was a good video

Wonder is its a forumite?

[A chickychickychick-ENN!!]

Seems weird seeing it presented as something novel and newsworthy. Seems so normal to keep chickens and so abnormal not to keep them to me now that I find it hard to believe two years ago watching a video like that would have been so new and a bit odd!

[Janepie33]

Great video. Don't think I could eat my chickens though. It would be like eating my cats!

 

My chickens love Marmite!

[hilda-and-evadne]

Thanks for posting that - v. interesting - would like to have seen more of his chicken run which looks better made than mine

 

For the scenes filmed inside the run, do you think the cameraman is crouched in the run? Must have been a bit of a squeeze.

[Couperwife]

interesting

 

but, he talked about eating the chickens after they had finished laying

 

I thought that they wouldnt be edible after 2 or 3 years or rather the line of "tough as old boots" comes to mind.

 

nice chickens though

 

cathy

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[Lewis]

I do think its a bit of a bad thing to say about eating them

... I'm all for self sufficiency but can't see there being much of a meal off a 3 year old poland!

[Olly]

You're right, Lewis - laying birds aren't usually much good for meat, and at 2-3 years old I think they'd need to be cooked for an awfully long time! I'm not convinced that he's going to eat those hens anyway, I think he was talking the talk.

 

Pity the poor cameraman, I think he must have been kneeling in the run.

[Ygerna]

Excellent, if a few more people get chickens as a result of watching that, I shall be quite happy.

I was saying about eating one of our chickens yesterday and DD said very sternly 'we are NOT going to be eating one of our chickens'. I chuckled as A)it seems they are MY chickens when it comes to feeding/cleaning and so on but OUR's every other time and B)she has made the connection between 'Chicken' and our girls, which was something I hoped to achieve by keeping chickens, for the children to understand where food actually comes from.