Bridget: Yes, Sussex are lovely chickens, great temperaments. Over here, used mainly for the table! French will buy em at point of lay, keep em for a few months, then they go for the table... Myself and chums keep for pleasure and for eggs. Joanna and her pal were both buried by their owner. We are very sad about it.
People here also keep rabbits the same way. Buy live from the market, keep for a few months then they go for the table. These are 'not' show rabbits, but ordinary wild type. They are kept in reaal nasty small cages - find the cages on most French properties in the country. One inherits the cages... TG there was nowt like that to inherit on my property - if there had been I'd have filled the tiddly box spaces with flwoers!
Alan: Don't think you'll get AS from an AS chicken, AS aint sort of 'catching'...smile. In France and in *many countries, IF it 'can' be eaten, be food, then it will be eaten. Those poor beasties kept in battery conditions are used for eggs and for the table... The egg ones are only kept for about 12 months (or summat). Many people are now rescuing them, 65,000 battery chucks were rescued last year in the UK. A few over here in France are rescued from the intensive farming sector - as will the next batch be rescue chucks, by the person who just lost Joanna et al to M. Reynard.
Hate the way that animals are regarded over here - unkind.
