What are you watching tonight?

[thebish]

C4 News at 7 o'clock (so, in 45 minutes then) will be running a piece that they filmed today at a BHWT rescue in Essex. There's a slight chance that you'll be able to catch a glimpse of Gooner Girl and/or thebish rescuing battery hens. Should we not be so fortunate as to catch a glimpse of either of them - bleeding, scratched and caked in shit, then at least you can, should you wish, hopefully understand a little more about the excellent work that they carry out.

you won't see me - I was sent off to hose down the crates while all the girls tried to get on telly... the one you are most likely to see is my daughter - it will be the bit where they do the nail-clipping - if they do a close-up you'll just see her hands as she holds the chicken whose nails are being cut - if they do a wide angle - then you might just see a long-haired toffee-coloured-hair teenage girl holding the chicken - that'll be my Carys...

[Bruce Rioja]

She's been on already!

[Wandering Willy]

Darts.

[Bruce Rioja]

Darts.

Ordinarily I'd be down there tonight. I have no interest in arrers but it really is THE top lad's night out. Absolute quality

[Annoyed Grunt]

Darts.

van Gerwen is flying at the minute.

[Wandering Willy]

Amazing comeback.

[thebish]

She's been on already!

well - it seems GG was on there (more than once) - apparently unknowingly wandering into shot as jean was being interviewed!! also - my daughter featured heavily - and - get this - I was the one driving that car up the drive as the people carried their chickens home down the lane....

pah - everyone in it except me (properly) - no wonder the vain TV-hungry buggers sent me round the back to hose down the crates!!

[Annoyed Grunt]

Darts.

Ordinarily I'd be down there tonight. I have no interest in arrers but it really is THE top lad's night out. Absolute quality

Is it easy to get tickets?

[Bruce Rioja]

She's been on already!

well - it seems GG was on there (more than once) - apparently unknowingly wandering into shot as jean was being interviewed!! also - my daughter featured heavily - and - get this - I was the one driving that car up the drive as the people carried their chickens home down the lane....

pah - everyone in it except me (properly) - no wonder the vain TV-hungry buggers sent me round the back to hose down the crates!!

Didn't even see the car, mate

[Bruce Rioja]

Darts.

Ordinarily I'd be down there tonight. I have no interest in arrers but it really is THE top lad's night out. Absolute quality

Is it easy to get tickets?

Dunno, Grunto. Looks like it's getting increasingly popular though - and deservedly so. See, what's happened in the past is that one of my mates worked for a company that sponsored Phil Taylor, so we've always winged the VIP's fer nowt. However, now that he doesn't - we haven't, so we didn't go down this time. Now the conversation is - feck the ticket price! We had to sort out our own bar bill, transport and digs anyway - the night out is that good that the price of the ticket is pretty much immaterial.

If you and your spa's can do it, Fella, then do it. It really is a top blast.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Darts.

Ordinarily I'd be down there tonight. I have no interest in arrers but it really is THE top lad's night out. Absolute quality

Is it easy to get tickets?

Dunno, Grunto. Looks like it's getting increasingly popular though - and deservedly so. See, what's happened in the past is that one of my mates worked for a company that sponsored Phil Taylor, so we've always winged the VIP's fer nowt. However, now that he doesn't - we haven't, so we didn't go down this time. Now the conversation is - feck the ticket price! We had to sort out our own bar bill, transport and digs anyway - the night out is that good that the price of the ticket is pretty much immaterial.

If you and your spa's can do it, Fella, then do it. It really is a top blast.

Nice one....will try and give it a go.

Currently watching Paddy's 2021 Show and Telly...........shoot me, please!!!

[Bruce Rioja]

Darts.

Ordinarily I'd be down there tonight. I have no interest in arrers but it really is THE top lad's night out. Absolute quality

Is it easy to get tickets?

Dunno, Grunto. Looks like it's getting increasingly popular though - and deservedly so. See, what's happened in the past is that one of my mates worked for a company that sponsored Phil Taylor, so we've always winged the VIP's fer nowt. However, now that he doesn't - we haven't, so we didn't go down this time. Now the conversation is - feck the ticket price! We had to sort out our own bar bill, transport and digs anyway - the night out is that good that the price of the ticket is pretty much immaterial.

If you and your spa's can do it, Fella, then do it. It really is a top blast.

Nice one....will try and give it a go.

Currently watching Paddy's 2021 Show and Telly...........shoot me, please!!!

Let me know if you do, Chief, and I'll get you the heads-up on some proper decent digs close by where me and my mates will be staying.

[Gooner Girl]

She's been on already!

well - it seems GG was on there (more than once) - apparently unknowingly wandering into shot as jean was being interviewed!! also - my daughter featured heavily - and - get this - I was the one driving that car up the drive as the people carried their chickens home down the lane....

pah - everyone in it except me (properly) - no wonder the vain TV-hungry buggers sent me round the back to hose down the crates!!

Ahhh, stop moaning! You didn't have your official BHWT fleece on anyway!

Am a tad gutted that my 2nd ever appearance on telly was when i was cold, very winsdwept, scratched, bruised, pecked and covered in chicken poo. Not the look i would have chosen...

Worked flipping hard today, Phil had the easy job, he just had to carry the chickens.



I must have pulled nearly a thousand birds out of cages, getting attacked numerous times in the process. You'd think they would be grateful we were saving their lives!...

[Bruce Rioja]

Mate - that's the executioner's method. Why were you carrying them like that?

[Gooner Girl]

Mate - that's the executioner's method. Why were you carrying them like that?

We often carry them the 'normal' way but this is the way the farmers carry them and its far quicker and easier to get them out the cages and into the crates and when you are moving 1000 chickens you have to be practical. It looks horrible but it doesn't hurt them.

[bobo the clown]

We often carry them the 'normal' way but this is the way the farmers carry them and its far quicker and easier to get them out the cages and into the crates and when you are moving 1000 chickens you have to be practical. It looks horrible but it doesn't hurt them.

The cry of all animal abusers, the World over.

[Gooner Girl]

We often carry them the 'normal' way but this is the way the farmers carry them and its far quicker and easier to get them out the cages and into the crates and when you are moving 1000 chickens you have to be practical. It looks horrible but it doesn't hurt them.

The cry of all animal abusers, the World over.

Oh behave! You're such a WUM

I have 2 chickens I put by specially, just for you bobo, will drop them off at yours tomorrow

[CrazyHorse]

It looks horrible but it doesn't hurt them.

Bollox. An A4 paper sized cage looks horrible but it doesn't hurt them either.
I understand your point on this and everything but that's the same crap the battery farmers come out with to justify the 18 hour-day cycle egg production they force them into. It's not natural, but it's ok if you lot do it? A hen isn't meant to be held upside down.

[Wandering Willy]

How would the eggs come out?

[thebish]

Mate - that's the executioner's method. Why were you carrying them like that?

seems counter-intuitive... it took me a long time to accept that it is actually a better method of clearing hundreds of chickens...

they are less stressed because they flap less if you take them out of the cages by the legs... for many years we did it the other way - but they flap and squawk and panic as you try to drag them out of the cages.. and today's cages were not doored-cages, but barred - you get them out by removing one bar - and that leaves you about 4inches to get the chicken out...

if you dangle them by the legs, they relax into a zen-like trance... the farmers take them out three-or-four-in a hand by one leg (which I think is cruel) - often breaking the legs... we take four at a time - two in each hand - carrying by both legs - we broke not a single leg - and had not a single death in transit... the farmers have many broken legs and many deaths in transit...