chickens Archive

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  Are performance enhancing drugs helping the chickens? - by frog

  
  
  
  According to an as yet unreleased survey on the health of commercial egg laying chickens in the news today: The survey results are not due to be released until November, but industry sources told the Sunday Star-Times that early findings show that battery-farmed birds are generally healthier [than free range chickens] because the controlled conditions [...] read more
  September 21, 2008 2:42 pm - 2 Comments
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  Dunne makes chickens suffer - by frog

  
  
  
  Peter Dunne is pooh-poohing the $180 million compensation package for households that will form part of the Emissions Trading Scheme, which NZ First is claiming from it’s negotiations with Labour.  Dunne’s back of the napkin calculations are that each household will receive $2.15 a week. He then further calculates $2,15 to be about 7 eggs. [...] read more
  September 2, 2008 12:11 pm - 40 Comments
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  Farming, food, chicken plucking and ape rights - by frog

  
  
  
  Don’t say that title too fast.  Here’s few foody bits and pieces from around the world. Farmer Peter Kindersley tells the Guardian about two different ways to pluck a chicken.  The first is not pleasant, given New Zealand’s high rate of campylobacter: [T]he scald tank that was part of it has always been a headache [...] read more
  July 2, 2008 3:35 pm - 3 Comments
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  Getting chickens off the drugs - by frog

  
  
  
  It seems that if you keep a rather large number of chickens inside a building and afford each chicken roughly about an A4 piece of paper’s worth of space, and feed them a very limited diet, those chickens occasionally get sick.  At this point you’ve really got two choices – you could knock down the [...] read more
  May 13, 2008 3:13 pm - 14 Comments
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  All I am saying is give peas a chance - by frog

  
  
  
  Check out dothegreenthing.com and it’s six easy steps to helping the planet. This month it is highlighting going easy on the meat: Put down your pork chop, surrender your sausage, and lay off the lamb shanks. This month’s Green Thing is all about going Easy On The Meat. Now, meat may be tasty – in [...] read more
  April 1, 2008 9:30 am - 9 Comments
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  Urban chickens - by frog

  
  
  
  I’m a petless kind of urban frog. I’m not a big fan of cats, and I always feel a little sorry for big dogs in the big city. And, as you’d expect, I don’t have a lot of affinity for fish bowls and cages. But I know a lot of people do like pets, so [...] read more
  March 27, 2008 10:01 am - 5 Comments
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  Why did the chicken cross the road? - by frog

  
  
  
  Probably because its broiler shed was already full and the rapidly growing poultry industry was building a  new shed. Chicken has gone from a relatively rare and unusual meat (under 1kg per capita in the 1960′s) to the most consumed meat in New Zealand. The Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand says we kiwis consumed [...] read more
  February 19, 2008 10:29 am - 5 Comments
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  Healthy chickens could reduce campylobacter - by frog

  
  
  
  American disease scientists are warning that bouts of food poisoning can cause serious health risks months or even years after people think they have recovered from the initial illness. E coli for instance has been linked, years after a patient has recovered from it, to hospitalisation as a result of high blood pressure, colon or [...] read more
  January 24, 2008 1:58 pm - 12 Comments