BC Poultry Conference
Today Michelle is at the BC Poultry Conference in Vancouver. The morning started out with the BC Egg campaign handing out egg breakfast sandwiches.
Margaret Dunn, Joe Neels and Steve Heppel serving free egg sandwiches In Vancouver | March 11, 2016
Through sponsorships and direct participation, BC Egg supports a range of events and organizations with the goal of connecting the public with egg farmers, educating people about egg nutrition, and encouraging healthy, active lifestyles for all British Columbians.
#bcegg #BCPC2016
BC Poultry Stats
We received this infographic from the BC poultry associations. Thanks to all the family farms in BC growing chickens & eggs for us!
Poultry Paper
Poultry Paper now available via Denbow! Just one call, and we’ll deliver you poultry paper along with your sawdust… contact us for pricing.
Fresh vibrant Coloured Mulch
2015/03/04
Our crew in the yard has been busy making up fresh batches of beautiful Red and Black coloured mulch. It’s here and ready for your landscaping! Pickup yourself, order delivery or have us install for you with our blower trucks.
Earn FIVE TIMES Air Miles if delivered/installed by March 31…
Eat Chicken!
Support our local BC poultry industry, and eat chicken! Check out www.bcchicken.ca for some yummy recipes, or try this recipe from Michelle, our Agriculture Services Manager:
Mango Chicken
4 chicken breasts
½ cup + 2 Tbsp Thai Sweet Chilli Sauce
½ cup water
½ cup tropical fruit juice (passion fruit/pineapple/orange/mango/peach)
¼ cup sugar
2 Tbsp vinegar
2 Tbsp cornstarch/water
1 large ripe mango
Marinade chicken in ½ cup Thai sauce for 4-6 hours, or overnight.
Mix water, juice, sugar and vinegar in sauce pan. Bring to a slow boil; thicken with cornstarch mixed with water.
Stir in 2 Tbsp Thai sauce.
Grill chicken on barbeque for 15-20 minutes.
Chop mango and add to sauce. Spoon sauce over chicken.
Enjoy!
The Chicken Story
The Chicken Story: Here’s a fun activity for your kids or grandkids! The Chicken Story is an online story and colouring book – and we think that page 1 is pretty cool:
Poultry In Motion™
Educational Mini Barn
With farms off limits to visitors due to biosecurity protocols, the BC Chicken Growers’ Association, in partnership with the BC Broiler Hatching Egg Producers’ Association, has developed Poultry in Motion™, a mobile mini barn, in an effort to increase public awareness and educate consumers. This fully equipped mini barn has been featured at fairs, schools and agriculture events around the province.
The trailer consists of three sections, showing two life stages of broilers, plus their parent stock – the breeders. Each section is set up as a very small scale poultry barn, showing you how poultry farming is done in BC. The pictures in the background are from farms in the Fraser Valley.
Click here to check out the Poultry in Motion™ schedule!
Chicken Squad – Episode 2 & 3
We continue to enjoy the Chicken Squad episodes!
Episode 2 – “Feeding the Province” While at the auditions for the movie “Chicken Squad” local farmers talk about what it means to them to raise chicken for the people of BC. Sandra Middelburg mentions that the chickens are on comfortable sawdust – we supply that sawdust.
Episode 3 – “Tackling the Myths” Local BC chicken farmers speak candidly about misconceptions and myths they have to confront when sharing with people about what they do for a living.
