Barling Poultry
Text Box: Welcome to Barling Poultry, where we keep free range poultry and waterfowl here in Essex. We are keen to promote people keeping some hens at home, at the expense of ‘battery farms’. Most people nowadays realise why supermarkets can sell eggs so cheaply—because of intensive factory type battery farming. This type of farming system means hens spend their very short lives confined in small wire cages with lots of other hens. EU law allows each hen to have 550cm of floor space (less than a sheet of A4 paper!). But then nothing beats the taste of your very own freshly laid eggs, and keeping chickens is really fun! They have fantastic little characters, are generally easy to care for, require little maintenance and are just nice to have around.

 

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