The Poultry Keeper

nigel

According to this article in Farmers Weekly it appears that while you must register if you're in Northern Ireland, it's unclear if the mainland is to be included.

George · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 5661 Location: London

thewinkingtiger · Joined: 31 Aug 2005 Posts: 936 Location: East Yorkshire, UK

Our local authority have already asked residents to register any outside birds with them. (Apparently so they can keep them updated with information - yeah right!!!)
This was announced via local radio.
There is no way I'll be registering my flock until it's absolutely necessary. (ie a legal requirement or similar)

debcat · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:15 pm Post subject:

I'm already known to seerad Crying or Very sad

every year everyone with a croft gets a form to fill out, every animal you own goes on it.
Poultry is split into hens, ducks and geese. Hens are split into laying, growers and chicks (IIRC)
When I filled it in I only had about 30 hens, 2 geese and 10 ducks, it's grown alot since then Rolling Eyes

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 6880 Location: isle of lewis

seerad already knows about my hens and ducks as well ,
and my rasberry bushes Shocked

they need to know about these things just incase there's an emergency Exclamation

.but i went to a class at begining of oct and we were told there that in the next few weeks we would have to regester our flocks ,sac teacher Shocked

,deb has the paperwork from it don't know if it says anything in there ,
suz

debcat · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:18 pm Post subject:

not read it all yet Embarassed

Will have a good look tonight
don't think it would affect us though as we have holding numbers already

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:28 pm Post subject:

Yeah, we filled out one of those SEERAD things la couple of years ago for our croft - but all we had then was two horses and far too much rusty machinery... Laughing

summayah · Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 4289 Location: luton

what do you suppose counts as a flock?

debcat · Posted: Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:32 pm Post subject:

there's nothing in the gumph you gave me Suz Confused

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 6880 Location: isle of lewis

he seemed to think if you had around the fifty mark then they would want to hear from you soon though this is seerad (scotland )not england ,but there dosn't seem to be all the scaremongering up here that there seems to be elsewhere .although that could be just that i don't see a paper very much ,pretty layed back about everything here Cool

suz

debcat · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:

they are laid back about everything up here,
England could learn a few lessons Rolling Eyes

Julian · Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 16

England? DEFRA said they want to learn from the mistakes they made during their obscene handling of the last foot & mouth nightmare. However, I won't be rushing to sign any of their official bits of paper.

jaydee67 · Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2005 10:46 pm Post subject:

*mental note to self* keep numbers under 50!

milkmaid · Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 6880 Location: isle of lewis

i'm ok now , Confused

,things seem to be quieting down now though ,hope it stays that way Smile

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suz

sunnyside · Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 243 Location: Birmingham

Don't know if any one watched countryfile last sunday but they had a women on their from defra sugguesting private poultry keepers register with a vet so as they can be traced if need be.
I think not!