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Egg-laying hens are killed after just 18 months. This charity gives them a brighter future
euronews (in English)
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27/08/2023
Could your next pet be a chicken rescued from an egg farm?
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However much time they have with you, they've got to experience what it's like to actually be a chicken
00:05
and enjoy life which they didn't before they came to you.
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Hi, I'm Julia Davis. I'm an impact investor and environmental campaigner and I refoam chickens.
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So I like refoaming chickens because I think it's a really great way of getting cruelty-free eggs.
00:23
I think they're really great fun. If you're going to have a pet that isn't a cat or dog,
00:28
to be honest, chickens are really good.
00:30
My understanding is that chickens where production are kept for about a year,
00:35
after that they'll just be killed. So whilst we banned factory chickens,
00:40
what we now have is free-range chickens and we have barn chickens.
00:44
And so what has been set is the amount of space which each chicken has to have,
00:48
but it's really not that much at all, certainly not for barn chickens and actually for free-range.
00:53
Obviously there are some amazing free-range producers out there producing eggs in lower numbers,
00:58
but most eggs in the UK are produced in very, very high density of chickens units.
01:04
So they will have had a life of being in a pretty confined space.
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Even if they were in a large free-range flock, they would still have been,
01:14
you know, in amongst a huge number of birds and so that would be very stressful for them.
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And so, you know, the time when they come to me or any of the other beehomers,
01:26
that, you know, they get to enjoy the pleasure of being in a nice space.
01:29
I find them really funny. They're quite daft. I will say that I understand where the saying
01:34
bird brain comes from because they do really daft things, but it's amusing.
01:38
It's funny and there's nothing nicer on a sunny day,
01:41
seeing them out in the garden making dust baths.
01:44
It looks so pleasurable and they look like they're having an absolutely amazing time.
01:48
And of course, they don't get to do that when they're in a big shed,
01:51
even if they get to move around a little bit.
01:52
The state of the chickens when you beehome them will really depend on
01:57
the density in which they've been kept.
01:59
So you do get some chickens that are very bare with feathers and live in a pretty poor state.
02:03
And that is from them being in really dense numbers and pecking each other.
02:08
Most of them recover really well.
02:11
The feathers will start growing back relatively quickly.
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And after a couple of months, you have beautiful, healthy, buddy-brother pens again.
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So yeah, I think they're brilliant.
02:22
And what I would absolutely say to anyone with kids,
02:26
if your children are nagging you to get a rabbit or a guinea pig,
02:29
get chickens instead because you know what?
02:32
Your children will basically tire of those pets within a relatively short period of time.
02:37
You will be the one that's cleaning out those animals.
02:40
You'll be the one that's feeding them.
02:41
And at least for chickens, you get some nice tasty eggs back.
02:44
And the eggs do taste so much better than anything you get from a shop.
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