The Poultry Keeper

mojo · Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:54 pm Post subject:

be like the french sign up to everything then ignore anything you dont like.......seriosly avian flu alert dropped from red to orange ........local markets are likely to open to sell dead poultry for xmas trade but no live sales till new year...........seasons greetings ..............mojo Cool

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

that's good news mojo ~ hopefully other countries will follow suit if they feel secure enough

madslg · Joined: 16 Nov 2005 Posts: 298 Location: Farnham

That is good news - certainly things seem to have gone off the boil in the press recently.

shelly · Joined: 20 Nov 2005 Posts: 29 Location: Glastonbury

Don't worry,

I'm sure that once Christmas and New Year pass it will become a bird flu fest, in the press (oh my God that rhymed) as it is dead press time in Jan.

It is truly amazing how it seems to have completely dropped of from the media attention prior to Christmas, only 2 reports on it from what I have seen and that was over the last week.

One of my local papers stated the DEFRA request for registration of 50 birds plus, with an underlying implying sentence that everyone should declare regardless of numbers and that if people knew of small domestic keepers they should let the local authority know!!!

From Shelly

nigel · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2005 8:48 am Post subject:

I think that's what it will come to. Being reported by your neighbours. Vets will have to reports and poultry patients.

Come back George Orwell all is forgiven.

poultry poofs · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject:

Give the bored middle England house husbands something to do between holding speed camera's,and videoing dogs pooing they can go round photographing everyones poultry house's and snitching to the council. Laughing

Aussie Chick · Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 9:33 pm Post subject:

Lol

nigel · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 7:31 am Post subject:

Join the rush to register.

a defra advert in Country Smallholding..

CP · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:13 am Post subject:

Won't affect us as we have nowhere near 50! Wink

Will wait to see if they bring in measures for smaller, backyard flocks before doing anything rash like volunteering information unnecessarily. Rolling Eyes

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

To me it reads like for only commercial premises not backyard keepers. I know of a few on here who have more than 50 but they are not commercial. They have the chickens for the pleasure of it not the profit.

nigel · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

That's what i thought too Summayah, it does make it sound like you have to be a commercial enterprise to be included.

mojo · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject:

same here only commercials need registar .....keep strum till it says ALL poultry keepers of live birds need registar.........mojo

fluffly_fifer · Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 411 Location: Fife, Scotland

In Scotland we'll probably have to wait for the Scottish Executive to hum & haw till London tells them differently.

Loudmouth Schnook · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

Like they did with the horse passports!

stuffed · Joined: 09 Oct 2005 Posts: 50 Location: Milton Keynes

I believe it is 50 or more (even if you only have that number for 1 day a year) on commercial site. If you keep all eggs, birds and meat for yourself and don't give away/sell any you do not have to register.