Then the shabiha come in, slaughter anyone who has stayed behind as well as all the animals, including chickens.

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"All five were ornamental chickens and couldn't get off the ground and the roundabout has no trees with low branches for them to escape from predators, " she said.

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Both are far better at trapping heat than carbon dioxide, meaning that cows, chickens and their ilk have a larger greenhouse effect than all the cars, trucks and planes in the world.

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Tesco said its breakthrough was a "triumph" for the supermarket's programme to vaccinate all laying hens against salmonella, with attention now turning to wiping out traces of the bug in chickens.

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The danger of essentially recreating Farmville, only with more realistically rendered chickens, was clear all along.

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The fact is, there will not be enough pasture-raised meat or free range chickens for all of us to eat meat as Americans currently do.

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It contains high-quality protein and is now used to feed not just cattle, but as Dave Kinard of the NCPA told me, "just about any critter at all, " including horses, hogs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, and mules.

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Once the housing bubble inevitably burst in 2007, because it grew beyond what could be further supported, then all these chickens came home to roost in 2008.

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