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How do you know each other? http://allphotobangkok.com/stmap_24pkcjjq.html?cialis.lamprene.procalis gotas para ojos ciprofloxacino Snelling, 55, hasn’t always kept quails, but two years ago he and his wife, Clare, 47, were shocked by a television programme they saw about the birds. `The majority are imported from France where they are intensively farmed – they’re not able to fly or graze – and we wondered if there was a better way of doing it,’ Clare says. Their eldest son, Ollie, now 20, came up with a business plan and, along with their neighbours, who had spare land, they decided to buy 150 quail’s eggs with the aim of having one of Britain’s only free-range quail’s egg farms. In the first year 90 birds hatched; now they have 300 birds – half a light-coloured Italian breed and half a darker Japanese species – with capacity to double their covey.Snelling gets up at 5.30am every day and rides down to the sheds. For birds so small, the quails get through a lot of food – 100kg of free-range, GM-free, high-protein pellets every week. `They each produce an egg a day, so they need a lot of energy,’ he says. After a 100-mile round trip to his day job working for Bournemouth council, he does his evening round at 7pm, collecting the eggs and ushering the quails into their sheds. `Hens put themselves to bed every night, but quails don’t so we have to herd them in,’ he says with a sigh.
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