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Free range hens
Topic Started: Feb 16 2016, 01:43 PM (66 Views)
Kahu
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11590276

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The 5 minute 31 seconds of footage shows a huge flock of happy hens heading for their 4ha playground at Otaika Valley Free Range, south of Whangarei, Northland, after the doors to the barn are opened at 8am.
But, this week, the video soared into space after George Takei, who played Mr Sulu in the original Star Trek series, linked it to his 9.5 million followers on Facebook.
Takei linked it with the comment: "Your daily d'awww - this is egg-ceptionally adorable."
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Trotsky
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Big City Boy
He seems to be a very nice man.
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angora
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He has quite a following on facebook.
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agate
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I liked him as Sulu and good to hear he is still with us
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Dana
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Canada is catching up ever so slowly.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cage-free-eggs-1.3435333
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Dana
Feb 17 2016, 06:23 AM
Canada is catching up ever so slowly.

You don't really have the climate, do you?
The free range chook farm shown in this post is in the far north. The further south you go from the North Island the smaller the 'free range' area actually is and the more enclosed space poultry farms predominate. I don't mean caged birds, but a large barn-like building which allows for movement within the building and a limited access to outside.
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Living in Ontario we had our hens in the barn in individual nests. During the spring and summer the back doors of the barn that led to an enclosed field were left open in the daytime. We got them in every night and of course, they stayed in mostly in the winter. On good days we would open the top half of the door and they could fly up and get out if they liked. My mother had one hen who insisted on laying her egg in our back kitchen. In heavy snow my mother would carry her there and back when she was finished her business.
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