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Issue No.22 Summer 2019 Welfare and Food Together WIN this hamper! Going global – hen keeping across the world The latest Hensus results are here! Shop our new, exclusive products for you and your girls Cluckin’ New Treats! Give your hens a taste of the good life with our new Inside this issue health-boosting treats! P6 Eggy News Amongst other news - pre-poached and vegan eggs! P8 Going global We look at hen welfare across the globe, including the cage-free FeathersandBeaky movement in the USA P10 Hensus results We asked, you answered! Find out what you told us on With 8 pages 11-14 natural herbs P16 Tales from the coop Supporter Simone Stanbrook-Byrne regales us with stories & flowers! about KitKat thieves and careless cockerels P22 British Hen Welfare Day We name the day so sign up today to help us to help more hens P23 Competition time! Win a Todhunter hamper and Higgidy vouchers – perfect for a summer picnic 10 health boosting P27 Eggy education around the world Find out how our hens are helping ingredients! children in Canada, Dubai and more P30 Flying the British Egg Flag We go across the globe again for this feature and chat to a farmer doing great things for hen welfare in Australia P42 Let’s get shopping! We’ve got some new and exclusive goodies for you to get your hands on P46 Gaynor’s Tips Worried about your hens in the summer heat? Check out Gaynor’s advice for keeping your hens as cool as cucumbers Contact Us British Hen Welfare Trust Hen Nutrition Queries? Hope Chapel, Rose Ash BHWT Careline With South Molton Tel: 01362 822904 Email: bhwtcareline@ Grit! Devon, EX36 4RF smallholderfeed.co.ukChicken & Egg. Welfare and Food Together. Tel: 01884 860084 Email: [email protected] Company No: 8057493 Web: www.bhwt.org.uk Registered Charity No: 1147356 To shop Feathers & Beaky online visit shop.bhwt.org.uk Chicken & Egg. Welfare and Food Together. 3 Feathers and Beaky New Products Consumer Advert A5.indd 1 14/02/2019 15:59 What you feed your little soldiers, Dear starts with what you feed your hens. Supporters OK I make no apology – I am bursting with excitement, writing this on the first really sunny summer’s day, in the month that we’re hitting an all-time month-record for hens rehomed, and with the new centre taking shape at Hen Central (although I confess quite a bit of imagination is still needed)! But it’s about to sprout up from the ground within days of Chicken & Egg landing, so head to our website to see! In June we rehomed over 13,500 hens and that qualifies as awesome on the Richter We care about the type of ingredients used in our feeds, and we think you should too. Not only do we use the scale of hen-happiness at Hen Central! Needless to say the office has been buzzing. Our volunteers deserve a huge pat on the back for their part in this incredible feat – highest quality ingredients, but we’re also very careful to leave out quite a lot of other things which don’t meet over 3,000 adoptions in one month involves Olympic-standard logistics, and we’re our high standards. Which is why our Natural Free Range Layers Pellets and Crumble are now Soya Free. incredibly grateful to all involved in making this hen-happiness happen. Natural Free Range Layers Pellets and Crumble We’ve some fun facts to feed back to you from our Hensus 2019 survey; over 1,000 of you responded and we’ve been able to build a picture of just how fabulous our hens, Supporting British Farmers - and supporters really are. And then we go global, showing you innovation and best reducing food miles, wherever possible practice across the world for hens, before taking you to UK back gardens to remind NO N H E - you of how adept our hens are at fitting into family life, some even turning into feathery 3 Nutritionally balanced with added Omega 3 T G M domestic goddesses with their kitchen cleverness. 3 Quality Non-GM Ingredients 3 Vegetarian Society Approved Oh, and I hope you spotted the gorgeous picnic set up on the front cover; take another peek if you missed it in your rush to read our news because we’ve an amazing L 3 A Produced in our drug free mill Y competition – courtesy of Higgidy Pies and Todhunter – to win it. E RS FEED Right I think it’s time I shut up, and you settled down to enjoy this edition of Chicken “Food for thought?” & Egg. And in any case my house hen, Violet, wants her tea… and she wants it now. Jane Howorth MBE For friendly and helpful feeding advice, contact our Founder nutrition helpline today on 01362 822 902 Francesca Mapp - Production Jane Howorth - Editor The Idea Engine - Publisher or visit www.soya-free.co.uk Chicken & Egg. Welfare and Food Together. 5 Quote Ad Reference “Soya Free Soldiers” Eggy launches a vegan egg News Numerous attempts have been made to create vegan ‘eggs’ which look and taste like the real thing. Some have tried and failed, but Wagamamas has nailed at least one of the criteria as their newly-launched vegan egg Perfectly pre-poached eggs resembles the real thing but, apparently, tastes We all know poaching eggs isn’t quite as simple as it looks, which is why Just Egg nothing like one. One taste tester described it as resembling a ‘wobbly coconut panna Chilled Foods has introduced a pre-cooked free-range poached egg to its cotta ‘white’ with a Sriracha vegan mayo ‘yolk’ product range. The eggs are currently only available to caterers, restaurants and dolloped into a melon-balled cavity’. the like so, for now, we’ll have to carry on practising in our own kitchens! Do I swirl Wagamamas themselves say the egg isn’t the water, and do I need vinegar? I’m never quite sure... supposed to taste like a real egg, but is all about championing plant-based eating. Executive chef Steve Mangleshot said: “We loved the fact that the egg added a new dimension of flavour to the overall dish and was not a ‘gimmick’. I think we’ve created a truly unique and delicious offering.” Find the Golden Egg The winner of our last Golden Egg competition was Jennifer Ashpole, who is now the proud owner of a beautiful Izzi Rainey Pom Pom Pencil Case! Our next Did you prize is an amazing bundle courtesy of Stokes Sauces know? worth £36. It contains 12 of their best-selling sauces Soaking an egg in vinegar produces a ‘naked egg’, or an egg including free-range mayo, chipotle ketchup, Dijon without a shell which can be effectively bounced on a table! mustard and chilli jam. Perfect for those summer Simply place an egg in a glass of vinegar, soak for two days picnics! To enter simply find the Golden Egg among and the egg shell will dissolve leaving behind a soft, spongy these pages and email the page number to egg. Be careful though! While the membrane itself has [email protected] before 31st July 2019. hardened, the contents of the egg will still be liquid. 6 Chicken & Egg. Welfare and Food Together. Chicken & Egg. Welfare and Food Together. 7 Hen keeping on a global scale The British Hen Welfare Trust’s dream has always been a future where all commercial laying hens are kept in small free-range flocks, so they can enjoy the benefits of a life outdoors. Here in the UK huge strides have Of course, with such vast industry already been made towards improving changes come associated costs, with laying hen welfare, from moves to the American egg industry reporting end the practice of beak trimming it will need to convert housing three without compromising welfare, to times as fast as it has done over the supermarkets pledging to stop selling past three years to keep up with the eggs from caged hens by 2025. cage-free demand. It’s often assumed that hen welfare Whilst moves towards cage-free only across the globe is lagging far behind, serve to improve laying hen welfare, but whilst there is still a long way to go, research suggests there is still mistrust there are some innovative initiatives among consumers regarding how their being undertaken to improve the lives food is produced, with many wishing of the birds producing our eggs. to see more humane, natural environ- ments for food-producing animals. In Germany extensive work has taken place to end the practice of male chick The research, carried out across five culling by sexing chicks at egg stage European countries (Finland, Germany, and in November the world’s first eggs Poland, Spain and the UK), revealed produced without the culling of male consumers were primarily concerned chicks went on sale in Berlin thanks to with how foods were produced in the technology developed by Seleggt. The poultry and pig industries. Several German-based company have invented action points were suggested including a way to determine the sex of a chick producers working more closely with just nine days after it has been fertilised, trusted animal welfare organisations, and the German Ministry now anticipates being transparent and willing to the technology will be available to all communicate with consumers, and hatcheries by 2020. working with the media to highlight good practices. Over in the U.S. numerous pledges have been made by companies to go With a growing focus on food cage-free, with the industry estimating provenance it seems consumers are this could result in 223 million hens living increasingly being listened to and as outside of cages by 2026.