Why bother with Chickens?

After the sight that greeted me this morning, that question is ringing in my head. I woke to a beautiful spring morning, going about my morning jobs happy out with the fine day, that is until I came to the chicken runs.There I found a neighbours gun dog in one of the runs, he had managed to kill 140 chickens from both runs in the course of the night.

I wasn't going to put this information up, but I decided to show the reality of the difficulties of producing chickens outside of the mass production models, in fact the difficulties faced with producing any poultry product out side of the conventional methods. The losses are a financial disaster and just cant be sustained.

Luckily the video footage I took didn't come out and you will be spared the details, but as you can see from the pictures below its not pretty.

Where to from here for the chicken enterprise? I don't know, but it don't look good. This following on from a weasel attach a month ago and high losses due to a bad spring, calls for a serious rethink.

The Pigs Back Hillary Clinton

The friendly farmers pigs have finally declared who they support in the race for the White House. Earlier today at a hastily convened press conference a spokes pig on behalf of the herd came out strongly in favour of Hillary, according to the spokes pig "she is the person to root out the problems of the American economy".

Following the press conference a reliable source revealed exclusively to the friendly farmer that the pigs hands were forced on this matter. In an article due to be published in next weeks farmers journal it will be revealed that the pigs have a lot more in common with Hillary than we would think, they have shared a stage with Hillary......... so to speak

Apparently the pigs sleeping accommodation is made from the recycled steel platform which formed the base of the stage Hillary Clinton spoke from when she accepted her honorary Doctorate at NUIG Galway in May 1999. Al Gore would be well happy with us on the bit we have done for recycling, reducing green house gasses and saving a fluffy penguin from dying of heat exposure