IMPORTANT Deadline for registration of poultry

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I'm thinking now that it might have been a Myna bird.

Mynah birds are renowned for being chatty - I remember one at Penscynnor gardens in Cilfrew near Neath that had quite a large vocabulary

 

[philipm]

I wont have to bother the fox had all my chickens and we've decided it will not be worth having anymore.One less chore for me.

 

[BitterleyBee]

My dwindling flock of quail registered ages back. Only one left now. The buggers kept flying off when I opened the run door. Couldn’t bring myself to eat them. Going soft in my old age.

 

[JamezF]

Quoth?

Definitely not a Raven

James

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I thought he was having difficulty pronouncing sloth

 

[JamezF]

I thought he was having difficulty pronouncing sloth

It's a Terry Pratchett reference, or at least I understood it to be such.

I'd be surprised if you don't have at least a passing familiarity with Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven", the most famous line of which is probably "Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'". In a number of Pratchett's Discworld books there is a character, a talking raven, called Quoth (for obvious reasons) who refuses to speak "the N-word".

(Quoth is actually the mount of the Death of Rats, but claims he's only in it for the eyeballs.)

James

 

[The Poot]

https://www.sott.net/article/495193...-rebellion-the-GOOD-way-to-deal-with-BAD-laws

The final word on registration….?

 

[JamezF]

https://www.sott.net/article/495193...-rebellion-the-GOOD-way-to-deal-with-BAD-laws

The final word on registration….?

I regularly wonder when reading articles like that one, whether the author actually believes what they're writing, or if it's basically just a dog-whistle piece, written to "appeal" to their target audience (who one assumes must lack the intellectual capacity to consider the topic in any depth themselves).

I'm amused by the idea that someone in Whitehall might be thinking that they need to crack down on all these self-sufficient weirdos before it all gets out of hand. Damn! There might be as many as a few thousand of them! We can't have them rocking the boat or there'll be chaos.

James

 

[Wilco]

https://www.sott.net/article/495193...-rebellion-the-GOOD-way-to-deal-with-BAD-laws

The final word on registration….?

Utterly laughable conspiracy theory. It presumes far too much competence on behalf of the government.

If there's any conspiracy, it'll be by Chinese/Russian/Iranian/other bad actors or someone raking in money from ad revenue- who are probably having a right laugh at how easy it is to get the population distracted with anti-government sentiment by something like this.

 

[Penninetrader]

Utterly laughable conspiracy theory. It presumes far too much competence on behalf of the government.

If there's any conspiracy, it'll be by Chinese/Russian/Iranian/other bad actors or someone raking in money from ad revenue- who are probably having a right laugh at how easy it is to get the population distracted with anti-government sentiment by something like this.

Naieve, let me predict. At some point in the future all those with a few chickens will need to have them tested for something liike a bird flue, that testing and form filling will be difficult and costly enough to dissuade the majority from keeping their flock....oh and the need to cull. I am a conspiracy realist having seen much that was deemed ridiculous and far fetched become a miserable reality. I sincerely hope that I am wrong

 

[Wilco]

Naieve, let me predict. At some point in the future all those with a few chickens will need to have them tested for something liike a bird flue, that testing and form filling will be difficult and costly enough to dissuade the majority from keeping their flock....oh and the need to cull. I am a conspiracy realist having seen much that was deemed ridiculous and far fetched become a miserable reality. I sincerely hope that I am wrong

Utterly ridiculous and not realistic at all.

This registration system applies for all other livestock and has done for many years. The form filling can be a pain but it is free. Where livestock are culled due to notifiable disease, there are usually compensation schemes. That's the reality.

Farmers and smallholders don't tend to give up because of this sort of thing but because food and farming isn't valued enough by society.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

well, now that the pandemic is a distant memory (to most) they have to find something new to keep the crackpots, anti vaxers and brexiteers occupied

 

[JamezF]

Naieve, let me predict. At some point in the future all those with a few chickens will need to have them tested for something liike a bird flue, that testing and form filling will be difficult and costly enough to dissuade the majority from keeping their flock....oh and the need to cull. I am a conspiracy realist having seen much that was deemed ridiculous and far fetched become a miserable reality. I sincerely hope that I am wrong

Are you not on BeeBase either then?

James

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

 

[Penninetrader]

Are you not on BeeBase either then?

James

Those words make me shudder, "key stakeholders" Chickens I have not.