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tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:23 pm Post subject: Woodland chickens
I'm looking to learn more about free ranging chickens (meat and eggs) in a woodland setting, anybody ever tried it?

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:26 pm Post subject:
No, but I read an article on it a while ago (I should have that as my sig). I think it was in CS. If you harp on at me for a while I'll try and find it because it mentioned a person who was keeping them like that, and all about stocking densities and expected ROI and whatnot. Actually maybe it was in something else...couldn't have been Organic Way or Permaculture though or you'd have seen it.

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:41 pm Post subject:
I've heard a radio programme about it, and I've seen a piece on a website about it but I couldn't get any further details out of them

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:46 pm Post subject:
This be them - Northmoor Trust rang a bell but these might be the sites you saw: https://www.faifarms.co.uk/poultry.htm https://www.northmoortrust.co.uk/home/land_science/pine_-_poultry_agroforestry

Bugs

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:46 pm Post subject:
I assume, that asking if you've thought about pigs in your woodland, is a really, really silly question?

cab

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:50 pm Post subject:
Aren't wild boar considered fair game by some islamic groups?

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:50 pm Post subject:

Bugs wrote:

This be them - Northmoor Trust rang a bell but these might be the sites you saw:

That's 'em asked them yonks ago for more info never got a reply

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:51 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Aren't wild boar considered fair game by some islamic groups?

Not as far as I know (could be wrong though)

sean
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:56 pm Post subject:

cab wrote:

Aren't wild boar considered fair game by some islamic groups?

The people on the kibbutz I worked on used to hunt wild boar to cook at religious festivals. However, they were very very irreligious.
And I think kosher and halal are slightly different lists aren't they?

tahir

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 1:58 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

kosher and halal are slightly different lists aren't they?

Yes, if anything kosher's stricter, they don't eat the rear quarters of cattle for example.

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 2:16 pm Post subject:
You'd need mighty good fencing for either pigs or chooks - and the local foxes would have a field day with a wood full of chooks, I'd suspect. Pigs would make a lot of sense, though - they love rooting, burrowing and rubbing themselves against things, and a few stumps and logs would be ideal for them. Rounding them up may prove interesting, however!

ButteryHOLsomeness

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 2:33 pm Post subject:

when we were on skye we applied for a job as a sort of live in permacultural couple to work on an organic steading there (basically some rich retired farmer from down south) the house and land were set in heavy woods with only a large open clearing for the house and huge walled gardens.

his chickens roamed freely and when we asked about foxes he said he only had problems if he didn't lock them up at night. he did mention however that having a few dogs about the place helped too

Lloyd

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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 4:13 pm Post subject:
Tahir, didn't you yourself provide an article on this a few months back? By the way, round 'ere foxes take chooks all through the day as well as at night

judyofthewoods

Joined: 29 Jan 2005
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 4:44 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

cab wrote:

Aren't wild boar considered fair game by some islamic groups?

Which kibbutz? Probably the north where there is plenty of woodland. I spent a few months on Kibbutz Urim in the Negev, way back in '78, the volunteer hayday, I think.

sean
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Posted: Wed Apr 27, 05 4:48 pm Post subject:

judyofthewoods wrote:

sean wrote:

cab wrote:

Aren't wild boar considered fair game by some islamic groups?

Which kibbutz? Probably the north where there is plenty of woodland. I spent a few months on Kibbutz Urim in the Negev, way back in '78, the volunteer hayday, I think.

Lehavot Habashan, near Kiriat Shemona in the Upper Galilee. I went for about six months in 1981, then went back in 82 for the university summer holidays.
I got to be lifeguard for the swimming pool.

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