On Jul 7, 2:20 pm, Sacha <sa...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 7/7/08 14:00, in article
> 673a9995-fc06-49b7-9eb7-b4a9c143f...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Judithin France" <judith.le...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>> I thought, obviously wrongly, that the chickens
> >>> were killed in the winter, this is what my neighbour does?
>
> >>> Judith
>
> >> Is that to avoid having to feed them all winter when, in your cold
weather,
> >> they go off lay? You might have to bring them into your barn and
give them
> >> something like a heat lamp in a fenced off area. It would be worth
asking
> >> the neighbours what they did. We kept ours until they were too old
to lay
> >> any more and then the nuns who ran a local old peoples' home took
them for
> >> soup!
>
> >> --
> >> Sacha
>
> > It's what the neighbours here do, nobody seems to keep hens in the
> > Winter.
>
> > Judith
>
> My guess is that the extreme cold puts them offlay and this is why
they're
> killed off. But your best bet by far, is to ask a neighbour. And are
you
> prepared to bump them off?
>
> --
> Sachahttp://www.hillhousenursery.com
> South Devon
Not only am I not prepared to bump them off, neither will I eat them.
I cook chicken for the family but I can't bear to eat the flesh, don't
ask me why, I just don't know. I don't eat chicken but I love chicken
soup!!
Judith
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