Pets

Lordflashheart · January 26

Stuart_the_Red said:

Settling in nicely!

I have a sneaking suspicion that food is in the offing judging by this picture ???

Stuart_the_Red · January 26

Yep, dogs are more bribable than me!

ecclesaddick · January 27

hi, bit off topic, does anyone know of the person on Charlton Life who rehomes battery chickens ,
thanks

Covered End · January 27

ecclesaddick said:

hi, bit off topic, does anyone know of the person on Charlton Life who rehomes battery chickens ,
thanks

@Arsenetatters

Lordflashheart · January 27

ecclesaddick said:

hi, bit off topic, does anyone know of the person on Charlton Life who rehomes battery chickens ,
thanks

@arsenetatters

ecclesaddick · January 27

Many thanks Covered End

Arsenetatters · January 27

ecclesaddick said:

hi, bit off topic, does anyone know of the person on Charlton Life who rehomes battery chickens ,
thanks

Have PMd you !

SuedeAdidas · January 27

ecclesaddick said:

hi, bit off topic, does anyone know of the person on Charlton Life who rehomes battery chickens ,
thanks

Who do the chickens look like?

Arsenetatters · January 27

This is our latest resident- Rachael. Horrifyingly she’s from a free range farm.

Arsenetatters · January 27

Poor girl is still laying an egg a day despite her condition

KBslittlesis · January 27

You're in the best hands Rachel 🥰

Lordflashheart · January 27

Arsenetatters said:

This is our latest resident- Rachael. Horrifyingly she’s from a free range farm.

Free range farm 🤷

I’m struggling to work out which way up she is !!!

Dreadful - but bless you for giving her a forever home

Our 1 remaining Chicken - no idea how she keeps going - stopped laying eggs years ago - but quite happy and mouthy still 😃

LargeAddick · January 27

Wow, that’s awful, no animal deserves to be treated like that. Hope she recovers ok.

Fanny Fanackapan · January 27

Bless her cotton socks( if she had any)

Is she indoors & being given extra special Arsencare ?

Billy_Mix · January 28

Arsenetatters said:

Poor girl is still laying an egg a day despite her condition

forgive my ignorance
is the feather loss because Racheal is/was stressed out or do the chickens fight in their overcrowded conditions?
My other half insists on purchasing eggs and chicken marked 'free range' but I'm sceptical how much difference that really makes and whether we should be insisting on higher welfare than that

cafcnick1992 · January 28

I always spend extra on eggs for this exact reason.

I genuinely think theres a market out there for expensive, but well-treated animal meat

Arsenetatters · January 28

Fanny Fanackapan said:

Bless her cotton socks( if she had any)

Is she indoors & being given extra special Arsencare ?

She is indoors - with her friend Ros who is in a similar condition but her feathers are re-growing as you can see from all the little black pin feathers coming through. It’s too cold for them to be outside like this and’ unfortunately, jumpers don’t help as they cause pain when the new feathers are growing.

Arsenetatters · January 28

Billy_Mix said:

Arsenetatters said:

Poor girl is still laying an egg a day despite her condition

forgive my ignorance
is the feather loss because Racheal is/was stressed out or do the chickens fight in their overcrowded conditions?
My other half insists on purchasing eggs and chicken marked 'free range' but I'm sceptical how much difference that really makes and whether we should be insisting on higher welfare than that

Chooks do moult once a year but these are chooks that have been eating each others feathers as they’re not getting enough protein. Sadly when the time comes up for slaughter some farmers switch off the food to save money….
The other problem with free range is that all you need to call yourself free range is to say the hens have access to the outside. But if you imagine a barn with 3000 chickens tightly packed in then not all will get out. The space you must have outside is a minimum of 9 hens per square metre. Not exactly free range.

It depends on the farm. Some are superb(rare) and have orchards for the hens to roam in and they sit under trees in the sun. Others are awful.
if you can buy them from a place you’ve visited that’s probably the best.

Organic free range have slightly more space outside.

Arsenetatters · January 28

cafcnick1992 said:

I always spend extra on eggs for this exact reason.

I genuinely think theres a market out there for expensive, but well-treated animal meat

I agree.

Particularly in the chicken world. We rescued some broilers at 3 and a half weeks old. They were still chicks, cheeping like chicks, but pretty huge. They were very cramped in the barn and had urine burns as they were sitting in their own shit. These lot were due for slaughter at 5 weeks and then off to a well known supermarket. I don’t eat chicken but I can’t believe they taste good when they’re bred to grow huge very quickly. Although there are so many chicken fast food outlets I’m sure people would rather pay extra for better welfare.

The photos are of the 3 and a half week old broilers.

cafcnick1992 · January 29

I just think that if we're going to eat animals, the least we can do is treat them well when they're alive, and kill them quickly.

I'm frustrated we don't follow Denmark's stance on Kosher/Halal slaughter. Inflicting pain on animals to satisfy religious beliefs is totally unacceptable.

Hal1x · January 29

Just my opinion, but Halal food should be outlawed, as per post above.

ElfsborgAddick · February 10

Lola has had her bits n pieces removed this morning.

Her face lit up when she was brought out of the vets, and I cried with relief.

She's home now and sleeping.

lordromford · February 10

lordromford said:

Due to working abroad, we’ve been petless for a while, but we’ve addressed that this week. We’ve just got ourselves a pair of kittens. Brother and sister. Named Jeff and Robin. Robin is the one with ginger and white in her colouring.
😀

Here are Jeff and Robin now as they approach their first birthday:

Don’t know why, but this picture makes me think of this:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5000498/uploads/editor/xd/eglzlqnfr9ss.jpeg

😂

T_C_E · February 11

A young Autistic child who 3 weeks ago wouldn’t walk by our dogs in the school corridors, today walked up politely asked if could say hello and then sat with Bowyer and calmly brushed him and then told a passing class of children “She was brushing her dog Bowler”
We presented her with a framed photo of Bow and Valli for her achievements in such a short time.

Arsenetatters · February 11

T_C_E said:

A young Autistic child who 3 weeks ago wouldn’t walk by our dogs in the school corridors, today walked up politely asked if could say hello and then sat with Bowyer and calmly brushed him and then told a passing class of children “She was brushing her dog Bowler”
We presented her with a framed photo of Bow and Valli for her achievements in such a short time.

Oh that’s a lovely story! Made me smile on a grey day x