Not sure if you will have all seen this, but we all have to keep our girls inside for 30 days due to the risk of avian flu -
www.fwi.co.uk/poultry/free-range-poultry-ordered-indoors-bird-flu-risk-rises.htm?cmpid=SOC|Facebook|FarmersWeekly|sf45189173|sf45189173
I have 12 which is manageable, my friend has 500 free range hens which is a lot more difficult. While I know it is easy to think that our few in the back garden are exempt, they aren't, and we need to do what we can so those people whose livelihoods depend on their chickens don't have to do a cull.
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desertmum · 07/12/2016 07:29
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