Chooks

[Shane Raidal <>]

At 04:21 PM 10/1/97 +1100, you wrote:
>     Or even better keep your own chooks - I have three in my modest 
>     suburban backyard (one ex-battery - a sorry sight when we got her, but 
>     she recovered quickly). They co-exist well with our dogs, fertilise 
>     the garden, weed it (no use planting seeds!) and occasionally we get 
>     an egg  (if the dogs don't find it first!)

This thread is giving me the faeces.

It sounds like your backyard chooks are not very healthy if they are only
providing you with the occasional egg.  Free-range chooks are fine in small
numbers in backyards. However, larger flocks often suffer from significant
health problems, many of which can be causes of human ill-health.  I don't
eat many eggs but I'd rather eat one which has a much better chance of
being free of potential bacterial infection any day.

Shane Raidal