The Poultry Keeper

Spana · Joined: 30 Apr 2005 Posts: 2067 Location: North Cornwall

I've been burying my head in the sand a bit over this AI, so forgive me if this has been asked before.

If the worst happens will we be allowed to cull our own birds, and if the answer is no what will happen to us if we do.
I wont let them put my girls into plastic sacks to suffocate.

Knobby · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject:

If "We" get to them b4 Defra do....Im sure we can do it ourselves !!! Crying or Very sad

Im sure I'll be the same as you, and want to do it myself !!

kittoch · Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 163 Location: glasgow

most folk i know are hoping if the worst case scenario happens that they can cull their chooks themselves...........after foot and mouth here, and seeing all these poor birds abroad being buried and burned alive, we all want to avoid that...............god help anyone who cant kill their own chooks..............mabye time to learn...........after all, surely better to end their life painlessly than let strangers who may not know how to, to possibly cause them suffering. Crying or Very sad

Dixie Chicks · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Posts: 280 Location: Cumbria

Totally agree Kittoch. There's no way Defra are torturing my chickens! If the worst happens, hubby gets the job and we will face the consequences.

mojo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:20 am Post subject:

i think here if the worst happens the owners will be liable for culling ....inspectors will visit to check compliance.....................mojo

mojo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 10:20 am Post subject:

minister states postion stable will reveiw in7 days

Nursie · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 162

I don't think I could bear some ham fisted bureaucrat coming here and murdering my ladies Crying or Very sad

It would break my heart, but if the worst comes to the worst then it will be a case of sending the dearly beloved out to see to it for me. I know I couldn't do it myself.

Let's just keep on hoping it does not come to that Confused

NannyP · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:36 pm Post subject:

If the worst comes to the worst, I have a friend who will do it for me. She did 3 cockerels late last year and she was good with them, talking to then and calming them Confused

mojo · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 5:45 pm Post subject:

that is the secret to culling.......calm the birds completely before taking action.........be hard and quick........no pain for bird only in your heart...........but it must be done it is one of the prices we pay for the pleasure of poulrty keeping

Issy · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 371 Location: somerset

I agree, even though it would break my heart all my ladies will be dead before Defra gets here if there is a mass cull. It is as Mojo says, the price for keeping chickens.

Lisa · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 10:57 am Post subject:

I feel the same way too, but I've never killed a chicken (any animal) before.

How would you do it?

mojo · Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 9:28 pm Post subject:

the best way is to watch someone else who knows what he is doing first(or she) i personally do it by hand,stroke the bird till absolute ly calm then snap neck in one quick pull..........mojo