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Few farming industries have seen more changes than the poultry sector over the years, and being the third generation to take on the profession, it is one which Forfar-based supplier, Robert Thompson, knows more than most about. Like so many family farms, the industry has seen the loss of many poultry units, with both egg laying and broiler production now in the hands of a select view. Such have been the changes within the sector, that the UK is now only 65% self sufficient in chicken and despite the mass influx of laying units, some eggs do still have to be imported. ....
Country Life Trending: April 24, 2021 They may seem dim, but chickens are off to investigate the world Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty Assumed to be the lowest in the avian-intelligence pecking order, chickens are, in fact, more like feathered imitators of Sherlock Holmes, says John Lewis-Stempel. Why did the cockerel cross the track? To get to the barn, where the chicken feed is now stored. Our Maran cock, Robespierre (‘the terror of the farmyard’), on discovering that the metal feed bin was not in its usual place in the woodshed, had gone off exploring to find it. Chickens? Often assumed to be the lowest in the pecking order of avian intelligence. The reality? The world’s most common farmed animal there are 19 billion chickens on planet Earth is not such a dumb-cluck. ....
Submitting. “I started working on farms around Calverley when I was a boy. It was all I ever wanted to do. Farming is a funny thing. Once it’s in your blood it doesn’t leave. I worked for dairy farmers Clifford Sheard of Acacia Farm in Apperley Bridge and Jim Scott of Walm Lane in Yeadon when I was in my teens. Andrew and Kim also keep geese at Bramhope Beef & Lamb “Jim had 60 cows and also bottled his milk, which went on doorstep delivery. I was earning £55 a week and was paid in pound notes in a brown envelope.” ....