Sentences with phrase «keep hens»

A lot of the hens come in debeaked, Zelano says, which suggests that they escaped from a factory farm, where beaks are removed to keep hens from injuring each other when packed into tight spaces.

Because people often don't see chickens as being «worth» veterinary care and surrender them when they get sick, «I actually sometimes feel like I'm working in a hospice center, just trying to keep the hens as comfortable and happy as I can for as long as I can,» she says.

If you keep hens for eggs, and love roosters, stick around!

If you keep hens for eggs, and love roosters, stick around!

First, the eggs that go into our egg white protein powder are sourced only U.S. farms that keep their hens far away from any genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

While smaller scale producers might stick to 1,500 birds per hectare as the recommended maximum, large scale producers are keeping their hens at much higher densities to cash in on the growing market for free range products.

May 16 — This annual garden tour educates visitors of all ages about keeping hens and delights them with garden ideas and inspiration.

In «Origins of the Left and Right Brain,» Peter F. MacNeilage, Lesley J. Rogers and Giorgio Vallortigara mention Rogers's experiments involving keeping a hen's eggs in darkness so the right eye is not stimulated and consequently the left hemisphere does not develop normally.

The roosters were used as packing peanuts to keep hen chicks warm... the store was giving them away for free.

«Keeping hens would enable residents to provide a nutritious, delicious, safe and environmentally - friendly eggs for their families, while at the same time teaching our children where food comes from, and what it is worth,» said Kelly Bacher in a statement to council and staff.

One can not blame the foxes for keeping the hen house full of a never - ending stream of chickens from which to pluck their feathers (money); how else can a fox pay for a fox's meals, for the mortgage on the fox hole, for the fox stole, and for the rest of the things fox den related?

Not exact matches

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

Now I have started eating eggs again from someone who keeps truly free range, well looked after hens in their garden.

They should know, there really isn't a market for those who want to give away their non-laying hens to someone who will keep them as pets.

The company says 34,000 mother pigs will no longer be kept in stalls for long periods of their lives and 350,000 hens will be freed from cages.

«Colony - enriched is a real blend between giving the hens the ability to exhibit their natural behavior and relieving aggression, but also keeping them safe from themselves, from predators and keeping them disease - free,» Vice President of Operations Rob Knecht says.

Yet the reality is that free range hens are actually kept in vast sheds with potentially thousands of other birds, few of which ever see daylight.

As a beekeeper with three hives I can't understand where this thing about the bees» pain is coming from — they are not kept like dairy cows or battery hens as they determine themselves how many bees live in any one hive.

The only things I can think of that I didn't differently: used homemade veg broth I had in the freezer (I'm vegetarian though my husband isn't and he thought the soup was great) used mixed dried mushrooms (you can get a large amount from costco for not too much - I keep them on hand for all my dried mushroom needs) did a healthy glug of sherry (more than the recipe) into the mushrooms when they were done sauteeing added spinach at the end to the soup For the dumplings, the only thing I did that was different than what many would do is use an egg from one of my hens - other than that I made them just as other people did but mine were full of flavor and could be eaten plain.

In 2008, the company began switching millions of eggs to cage - free eggs — those that do not come from hens kept in notoriously cramped battery cages.

It's also important to keep things in perspective when hen we read any particular study.

However, chickens raised for their meat are never raised in cages, regardless of the production system (only hens kept for the production of cage eggs are kept in cages).

For many reasons, such as there being over 10 million hens kept in conventional cages, false and misleading claims about egg - labelling and many others, AFSA is concerned for the future of genuine free - range systems for raising poultry on farms.

Queensland's government last month changed laws to allow free range egg farms to keep up to 10,000 hens per hectare, up from a previous limit of 1500.

According to researchers, hens kept indoors in cages lead happier lives.

Certified organic eggs come from hens kept on farms which meet and exceed standards of the best free range facilities.

This fact sheet is to help consumers and those who keep backyard hens.

Occasionally however, if it's deemed commercially viable, hens in free - range systems will be kept on for another season which would extend their life for around 12 months — still well short of what nature intended.

With bloom BABY sensitive wipes, they made sure to keep baby's health first for hen they created them, lot's of research into developing products that keep baby skin as pure and healthy as possible was done.

[W] hen we depart from the monogamy script — first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes dutiful once - a-week sex with no one but each other until death do us part — we are supposed to keep quiet.

I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen, She washed up the dishes and kept the house clean.

Birds are kept in cramped and overcrowded conditions, in which they are unable to perform natural behaviours such as scratching and dust - bathing; they are frequently «debeaked» in order to prevent fighting and self - harm; they are denied darkness and food in order to encourage constant egg - laying; and conditions in sheds can be unhygienic, with hens living amongst dead birds and faeces.

«We want to see all laying hens kept in well - managed free - range or barn systems instead.»

Opponents of battery farming condemn the conditions that egg laying hens are kept in.

If you want bigger eggs, you keep selecting the hens that are laying the biggest eggs, and you get bigger and bigger eggs.

Press the bar directly upwards with your arms extended overhead, keep your core braced throughout the move, and hen lower the bar back down to your shoulders and repeat.

Unless the owner is fastidious about keeping nest and other areas frequented by the hens scrupulously clean and dry..

Cage Free: Hens are not kept in cages and may or may not have outdoor access.

To be honest, I was never really a fan of the whole hen party idea and my amazing team of bridesmaids and gal pals kept this in mind and gave me an American style bridal shower with the perfect hint of a good ole Irish hen do to remember!

Print VOCABULARY on A4 paper to keep in vocabulary folder and LIFE CYCLE OF HEN on A4 card so the page can be cut into cards for sequencing.

Last summer, Jubilee Primary and Sebright Primary in Hackney, and Poplar Primary in Merton spent four days on an organic farm, taking part in a variety of activities — from cheesemaking and hen - keeping to growing and harvesting vegetables.

At a young age, hens are de-beaked as chickens who are kept in confinement tend to pick out their own feathers with stress.

Whether they are destined to hunt the varmints out of the hen house or keep deer out of your produce garden, these dogs fit a rural lifestyle beautifully.

Shelties are a smaller version of the earlier sheepdogs used off the North Scotland coast for keeping sheep, ponies and hens under control.

Says in hotel details: no stag or hen parties accepted - so why are the main complaints on TripAdvisor about the noisy stag and hen parties keeping people awake??

For something that the wind industry keeps telling us is as rare as hen's teeth, the unshackling of 10 tonne blades (euphemistically called «component liberation»), the total collapse of 200 - 300 tonne turbines and the spontaneous combustion of turbine generators (and the 1,000 litres of highly toxic gear and hydraulic oil that slosh around inside the -LSB-...]

It's official: As of January 1, 2012, all eggs in the European Union (EU) are supposed to be hatched by hens kept in free - range barns or «enriched» cages.

'' [W] hen the Supreme Court takes up the issue this week, we hope it considers another party to the dispute: individual creators of music, movies and books, who need to keep getting paid if they are going to keep creating.

It promotes hen - pecked husbands but those too for only that period in which they can keep their wives happy and satisfied by providing them with money, good house, all possible luxuries, comforts, unhindered and unquestioned sex (either with husband or with any other male outside relation).

This practice allows farmers to keep costs lower while ensuring their hens have somewhat better lives than those living on battery farms.