A word of praise for my big white rooster:

[hedgehog]

All summer he kept an eye on things and let me know if the fox was nearby.

Yesterday he raised the alarm and hustled all the hens back into the coop. There was a migratory hawk sitting in a nearby tree checking out the day's menu.

[Booster]

1. WTG,Big White Rooster.

[xxqqqzme]

2. Too bad we all

don't have a 'big rooster protecting our interests.



In the 10 years we had our farm, I don't recall ever having a rooster that vigilant. But we didn't have foxes or hawks, we had wood rats stealing eggs.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. An article in which you maybe interested...

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/09/eggs-salmonella-cage-free


Which Organic Egg Brands Are Factory Farms in Disguise?

— By Kiera Butler
| Mon Oct. 4, 2010 2:30 AM PDT

— Flickr/daisybush

The chickens pictured on the egg producer Chino Valley Ranchers' Simply Organic site look pretty happy. And from the description of their digs, it sounds like they'd have good reason to be: "When you walk into the chicken houses and you see all the birds scratching around in the dirt, running around, flapping their wings and hear the soft clucking from each of them, you can feel their contentment," the copy below the little fuzzballs reads. "It is the way nature intended."

An industrial henhouse jam-packed with 36,000 birds, on the other hand, is probably not "the way nature intended." But that is exactly what investigators from the organic food advocacy group Cornucopia Institute found when they visited a Wisconsin henhouse that supplies Chino Valley Ranchers with organic eggs.

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Lots of links and info about LOCAL farms.

I was disappointed to find how many of the well known brands are really factory farms. Guess it figures..if they can afford MSM advertizing..they cannot be small family farms.

[cilla4progress]

4. I have a big white rooster too - !

He really keeps an eye on his hens...scolds them about getting into the coop at night. He does take off after my husband sometimes, with his large talons...wonder what that's about!

[YOY]

5. Sounds like he's a bit of a cock really...

n.t.

[cilla4progress]

6. Perhaps!