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A Golden Opportunity for smallholders and poultry keepers

1:20pm Saturday 13th March 2010

Do you want to get your hands on some fabulous prizes thanks to the Smallholder Range? Then pop down to your local feed merchant to pick up a sack of Natural Free Range Layers Pellets and check for a Golden Egg inside.

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NFU welcome outcome of egg labelling scandal

8:50am Saturday 13th March 2010

The sentencing of a businessman jailed for his part in a multi-million pound egg fraud sends out a strong message said the NFU today.

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Ducks begin to lay

9:07am Tuesday 9th March 2010

Liz Wright shares her weekend - to read more and add comments go to Editor's Blog Sunday 7 March was officially a sunny day and here at least in East Anglia it was almost warm if you stood in the sun around midday. Today was more of a disappointment. As I fed the animals this morning I noticed that the dear hens had pulled up a daffodil bulb (don’t let anyone tell you that gardening and free range hens mix – only if you have very large well established plants). I went to push it back in the ground by poking my fingers into the earth and nearly broke them. It was as hard as rock and fully frozen and remained so all day long. No wonder the grass looks depressed and the buds are only promising (but not delivering) to come out.

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Support British game, smallholders and farmers told

10:52am Thursday 18th February 2010

A campaign to support British game rearers has been launched by the UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). It aims to encourage all gamekeepers, shoot owners and shoot managers to source their eggs and young birds from local producers who use traditional methods and high welfare standards.

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