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Just winging it together ahead of a long night.
These boys grazing peacefully at R & R Roosters are about a month away from being available exclusively at Feather and Bone.
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LET’S face it, social me- dia is a good way to con- nect, learn, network and refresh.
While plenty of posts are supportive, several question the motivation and balance of charity versus profit.
cockerel farm are doing a great job rescuing day- old male chicks from egg producers, growing them out on pasture until just before they start to mature and then selling them as table birds.
Hence, for the benefit of readers and myself, I recently joined the Perth Poultry Facebook group, becoming about member number 4100.
This, of course, is one of the inherent dilemmas of social media.
Situated at Llandilo, a semi-rural area near Windsor on Sydney’s fur- thest fringe, Ryan and Re- becca have built a small business around growing these boys out until about 16 weeks of age.
This number of mem- bers, let alone followers, did surprise me, given the group only started two and half years ago.
That is, even on Face- book people can be, well, pretty much faceless until being outed.
I was even delighted to discover that three of my personal Facebook friends (and I choose to have less than a dozen) are friends of members.
I liked this post and the cute pic the lady posted with it.
While I don’t keep poul- try these days, I’m quite confident my FBF’s like- wise are bereft of our feathered friends and buy in eggs and chicken ma- nure for their gardens.
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They lived separate to my Australorp flock for a few weeks until they settled in.
“It’s a wonderful story of turning waste into nu- trition, adding precious diversity in a monocultur- al meat chicken industry.
Two are journalists (one a reporter on ABC TV Landline) and the other a QC.
Either way, it’s a good thing.
At night they all go to bed independently into their own coops.
It supports a local food business in the Sydney basin and they taste damn good too!
With the Perth Poultry Group adding 24 new members to its flock in 24 hours, it’s clear to me that chooks are winning fans and followers.
So, you may be asking what sort of posts do my fellow ‘groupies’ put up?
The other night I was so happy to see one of my Australorp girls with her wing around one of the rescues, who decided to join them in their coop!”
Roosters from breeds that specialise in egg pro- duction aren’t considered great eating and they can’ t produce eggs, so they’re largely seen as an irritating waste product and dispensed with on the day they hatch.”
Maybe it’s a COVID-19 thing, with a growing awareness of the pleasure and token sustainability to be had from having a few backyard chickens for fresh home-grown eggs or meat – albeit I suspect the latter is the lesser.
One post, with heaps of comments in a day or so, came from a lady who had been paying $3 per laying hen (for >100), apparently from an egg farm about to turnover its hens.
Talk about getting rid of roosters, NSW couple Ryan and Rebecca Cirello of R & R Roosters and their fabulous heritage
I think Ryan and Re- becca are to be applauded for their initiative.
I can tell you it varies a lot, so here goes with a couple of samples.
While many posts seek to get rid of roost- ers or seek solutions for egg-bound hens, others are a means to an end in terms of selling surplus stock, mostly by backyard breeders.
She then cared for them before on-selling them – supposedly as a rescue operation.
I’m sure plenty of just- hatched male chickens will thank them too.
“So, I rescued four bat- tery hens down in Albany who were in a horrible state with bald bums and bright red skin.
According to ‘Feather and Bone’ – the wonder- ful e-newsletter of Feather and Bone Butchery in Marrickville, NSW – R & R Roosters provide a great product from every angle.
Then they started free ranging together.
Aussie egg farmers not chicken when it comes to COVID challenge
IN striving to be the world’s best, Austral- ia’s egg farmers aren’t afraid to have a crack – with the industry lead- ing the way in produc- ing more with less.
Littleproud said. “Maintaining a fresh,
ing the pandemic and welcomed the findings of the recent CSIRO research, which high- lighted that providing safe, nutritious, afford- able and secure food staples, such as eggs, is more important than ever.
Minister Littleproud said the Australian Gov- ernment was supporting the Australian egg in- dustry’s advancements in areas such as food security and the envi- ronment, as outlined in its 2020 Sustainability Framework Report.
Minister for Agri- culture, Drought and Emergency Management David Littleproud said World Egg Day on Octo- ber 9 was an opportunity to recognise the impor- tant role the egg indus- try has played to ensure Australia’s food supply during COVID-19.
reliable supply of an average of more than 17 million eggs a day is a credit to the hard work of our producers, all those along the sup- ply chain and of course the millions of layer and pullet hens in the na- tional flock.
According to the CSIRO Australian Egg Industry Community Research Report, 75.8 percent of respondents said that the pandemic made them more aware of the importance of food security, with 86.2 percent agreeing that producing eggs was an essential service.
“Productivity im- provements in the egg industry have coincided with a lowering of an already small environ- mental footprint through improved farm manage- ment, uptake of on-farm solar and new waste management technolo- gies,” Minister Little- proud said.
“Eggs are in 95 percent of Australian households and are a staple in the national diet,” Minister
“All our farmers have answered the challenge of COVID-19 to provide food on the table for Australians and ensure our country is set up to recover strongly.”
Minister Littleproud commended the egg industry’s efforts dur-
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