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Chickens
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Letter to the editor
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Some information in the article by Jon Rawlinson, “Free range eggs ‘good as gold’”, in the September 2011 issue of Urban Living was misleading, and in response, we ask that you share the below information with your readers.
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Chicken still tops
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
New Zealanders have given chicken the thumbs for dinner above other meats.
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Free range eggs 'good as gold'
Friday, 30 September 2011
Good eggs are as ‘good as gold’ in the New Zealand market where more and more consumers are demanding eggs from cage-free poultry as evidenced at the inaugural Good Egg Awards in Auckland last month.
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Who's a good egg?
Friday, 30 September 2011
The cagey question of who are the good eggs of the New Zealand food industry has been cracked – and there are 38 of them. Of those 38, six were recognised at the Good Egg Awards as outstanding in the sectors in which they operate.
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It's the hen who delivers the eggs
Friday, 17 June 2011
It’s easy for one to get clucky over a dozen fluffy chicks but for those wanting to keep hens for egg production or even the pot there is a variety of choices available.
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CHICKEN LICKEN
Friday, 17 June 2011
Many free-range farmers buy in their birds when they are at the point-of-lay at about 18 weeks of age.
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Rescue remedy for feathered friends
Friday, 17 June 2011
Birds landing in Robyn’s Nest are fortunate indeed, even if the circumstances of their arrival are not. Robyn Sampson operates her Pokeno sanctuary as part of SPCA Birdwing, taking in the halt and the lame, the sick and the homeless.
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Chooks and a fat Tui
Friday, 17 June 2011
Step on to Fat Tui Farm and it’s easy to see it is a poultry paradise.
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Age old chicken care
Friday, 18 June 2010
John Seymour’s The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency approaches poultry with typical straight-forwardness.
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Old, French, but still valuable
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
The Houdan Chicken is an old French breed. When imported to England in about 1850 it was more popularly known as the Normandy – presumably this being easier to pronounce than any Cockney version of the correct name in the London markets!
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Pretty Polish chooks
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Not so long ago Rural Living reported on the therapeutic effect of Highland Cattle; well it appears just watching chickens at work and place can be just as calming as grooming a placid ‘toffee cow’.
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Incubator revolution
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Some grand-fathers still reminisce about the smokey, smelly egg incubators hundreds of rural kiwis used between 1930 and 1950, often with surprising success, because of their complexity.
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Bringing the chickens home to roost
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Kathleen Taylor knows her chooks. And her ducks. And her geese. And her turkeys.
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Warming your chickens before they hatch
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
In his workshop in Hamilton, Donald Bethune has been producing small incubators for schools, universities, zoo aviaries, and hobbyists since the late 1950’s. A Massey University graduate, Donald is both managing director and the drive behind the design and development of all hatchery equipment in Dominion’s range.
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