tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post7595259507000050153..comments2024-03-28T11:27:25.537+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Well, If It’s Good Enough For The Potato Farmers…JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-52711323232421029042012-11-30T22:17:07.841+00:002012-11-30T22:17:07.841+00:00"You can take the sex and travel option, love..."You can take the sex and travel option, love."<br /><br />You forgot the destination. The cemetery.SadButMadLadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836368722377421009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-1297219962615312152012-11-29T05:45:13.302+00:002012-11-29T05:45:13.302+00:00"For context, the research that this story is...<i>"For context, the research that this story is based upon"</i> <br /><br />30 responses. Not even checked for accuracy! Nonsense once more.<br /><br /><i>"campylobacter jejuni?<br /><br />They're having a laugh. That's a character out of Alladin surely?"</i> <br /><br />I had to check to make sure it wasn't one of the poor bloody kids from the last post!JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-68777756372282842512012-11-29T05:43:09.605+00:002012-11-29T05:43:09.605+00:00"At some point I'm expecting an act which...<i>"At some point I'm expecting an act which outlaws ovens, cookers and all related open fires..."</i> <br /><br />As long as it doesn't include micrwaves, some will still be OK!<br /><br /><i>"I am sure that they would like to stop people doing all kinds of things for themselves."</i> <br /><br />Spot on! As Able points out, these regs came about because of a handful of 'bad apples' in the commercial industry...<br /><br /><i>"Is there any non-battery farm in history where they've managed to do that?"</i> <br /><br />I wouldn't have thought it possible without poison, traps, etc..<br /><br /><i>"But now I will reconsider. Just to be awkward."</i> <br /><br />:D <br /><br />The eggs taste better, they really do.JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-74084166629869417072012-11-28T23:09:08.459+00:002012-11-28T23:09:08.459+00:00campylobacter jejuni?
They're having a laugh....campylobacter jejuni?<br /><br />They're having a laugh. That's a character out of Alladin surely?<br /><br />We don't have chickens, but a lot of others round here do. It's a well heeled middle class district, and I haven't heard of any deaths so far.<br /><br />As far as kitchen scraps are concerned we don't have any. We have a very efficient waste disposal unit for that. She's called Saffie the bonkers dog. RABhttp://www.countingcats.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-80414663323061265122012-11-28T22:23:57.098+00:002012-11-28T22:23:57.098+00:00This isn't a about chickens but red herrings.
...This isn't a about chickens but red herrings.<br /><br />While the industry has a point; the dangers from local flocks are quite small. Look at Asia and India where almost everyone keeps fowl and how frighteningly quickly problems can spread around the world.<br /><br />For context, the research that this story is based upon:<br /><i>A total of 65 backyard chicken flock-keepers in the Greater London urban area were recruited from May to July 2010 through adverts on websites, at City farms, veterinary practices and pet feed stores and surveyed by means of a questionnaire. A total of <b>30 responses</b> were suitable for analysis.</i><br /><br />John Pickworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02166443099429490782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-83223163943998087282012-11-28T21:36:05.223+00:002012-11-28T21:36:05.223+00:00Stonyground says:
I make a brilliant vegetarian S...Stonyground says:<br /><br />I make a brilliant vegetarian Spag-bol, using my own recipe and Asda's fake mince. I always make way too much, so the leftovers always get fed to our chickens. To say that they love it would be an understatement. If the egg industry try to deprive my hens of their spag-bol, could we get the litigious RSPCA involved? They seem to get a kick out of reducing innocent people to bankrupsy, how much more satisfying to bankrupt an organisation that actually deserves it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-47623888518561658232012-11-28T21:17:06.151+00:002012-11-28T21:17:06.151+00:00Supermarket told me the reason for the comparative...Supermarket told me the reason for the comparatively high price of chicken now is the absurdity of regulations on it.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-70672546888731909752012-11-28T20:32:43.014+00:002012-11-28T20:32:43.014+00:00We are not supposed to survive an unregulated life...We are not supposed to survive an unregulated life. Why else do you think bureaucrats evolved?LJHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-63647999098388814182012-11-28T20:19:23.675+00:002012-11-28T20:19:23.675+00:00Semantics?
Didn't the 2001 regulations come a...Semantics?<br /><br />Didn't the 2001 regulations come about because of some commercial farmers feeding waste from commercial food outlets which had been importing unregulated, contaminated, food from foreign sources. Rather like feeding cows the remains of a chicken tandoori made from contaminated Chinese meat (CJD anyone). This wasn't a case of 'farmer Jones' feeding the scraps from his table.<br /><br />So, because of a very few unscrupulous producers they now claim you shouldn't feed table scraps, which you will know aren't contaminated since you already ate most of them?<br /><br />Just once I'd like to read a report which didn't include the obvious hyperbole, hypocrisy, manipulation of the facts to fit a preconceived aim and blatant corruption.<br /><br />Cogito Ergo DoleoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-4943992864182332062012-11-28T19:16:05.987+00:002012-11-28T19:16:05.987+00:00This is the other side of the "doing away wit...This is the other side of the "doing away with red tape" argument. The big producers, who desire to sell (important point that, they are running a business which involves selling eggs and poultry for the maximum profit they can achieve) have to abide by certain "red tape" introduced to attempt to minimize the chances of, oh for example, the eggs they sell in bulk all being coated with a quarter inch layer of "birds’ droppings containing the disease agent campylobacter jejuni. To do this involves them in some cost. They therefore reason that if they have to abide by these regulations proscribed for the industry, then so should everyone who keeps chickens - even if it is just the one - and of course, for that person with the one chicken in the back garden - the cost of complying with such rules would probably be sufficiently high that most would soon stop doing it - as their "home produced eggs" would pretty soon start to cost a hell of a lot more than those they could buy from the supermarket. So, when it suits the big concerns, red tape is "good" - very good, most sensible, protecting public health and guaranteeing quality and stardards and should be applied universally ok? However, when it comes to some of these big concerns being told "you might have to make your battery cages a bit bigger or have fewer chickens in each one, just to improve the lot of the chickens a miniscule amount" well then red tape is very very bad, ok?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-16094466672348212952012-11-28T18:37:57.094+00:002012-11-28T18:37:57.094+00:00Ok, I'm convinced.
I'm going to give up s...Ok, I'm convinced.<br /><br />I'm going to give up smoking chickens.<br /><br />...Or at least stop inhaling.DerekPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-48653578241945808642012-11-28T18:33:02.083+00:002012-11-28T18:33:02.083+00:00Peado cocks run wild!
Thousands of British househ...Peado cocks run wild!<br /><br />Thousands of British households unwittingly harbour PAEDOPHILE COCKS, shamelessly inseminating birds UNDER THE AGE OF 10.<br /><br />"These brutes can't help themselves", said Inspector Flange from the Yard. "They are utterly fowl".<br /><br />The government has been called upon to deal with the crisis of people harvesting their own potatoes, chickens, belly-button fluff, and most recently, smegme.<br /><br />Helmut Glans, from the Smegma Producers Society, said: "These amateurs don't know what they're doing. A bit of urine or baby batter in there could undermine the whole industry."<br /><br />It is understood that the government financed Bottom Wiping Advisory Service is also deeply concerned.<br /><br />"We want to dig right down there and find out what's going on" said Jane Thackery, unable to find a real fucking job. "We know it's there, and we're in it to winnit"<br /><br />Mr John Holmes of Luton, a chicken owner sine 1889, said: "It's a sad day when I can't play with my cock because of HSE. I have to tape it all and send it to Mrs Thackery along with a witnessed declaration that I belong to the Labour party. I might stick with the chickens for now."Twenty_Rothmansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-32303346039616330822012-11-28T18:25:35.854+00:002012-11-28T18:25:35.854+00:00Nothing irritates the State more than attempts at ...Nothing irritates the State more than attempts at independence and self sufficiency.<br /><br />And no reader of this blog would be so devilish as to panic a small army of officials by requesting information on grants towards the cost of a borehole in one's back garden, to supply potable water without the obligatory toxins and chemical waste. <br /><br />@ WOAR - Querns and thirlage.....Words of the Week!MTGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-26757181396542151962012-11-28T18:20:41.220+00:002012-11-28T18:20:41.220+00:00We're safe, then; our Indian runner ducks won&...We're safe, then; our Indian runner ducks won't count. They give us a delicious large egg each when the days are longer, cost about a tenner a month to feed and are pure entertainment. Their food also feeds a huge population of house sparrows - they aren't dying out in our garden!<br /><br />If the chicken police call we'll tell them that we're feeding the endangered sparrows and the ducks came along freeloading.The Jannienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-12623373104172277612012-11-28T17:42:04.543+00:002012-11-28T17:42:04.543+00:00Interesting. Anna has been banging on about gettin...Interesting. Anna has been banging on about getting chickens for a while now. Having kept them in the past, I didn't really want the hassle again. But now I will reconsider. Just to be awkward. Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15743685798068014455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-69930048522372389422012-11-28T17:22:27.004+00:002012-11-28T17:22:27.004+00:00My grandad used to keep chickens. If I had been g...My grandad used to keep chickens. If I had been good he used to let me strangle them. Happy days.Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-54940043234705218692012-11-28T15:06:54.548+00:002012-11-28T15:06:54.548+00:00The bit that really clinched it for me was about k...The bit that really clinched it for me was about keeping 'wild birds and rodents' away. <br /><br />Is there any non-battery farm in history where they've managed to do that? DJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00446322024174274621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-80025313010527475412012-11-28T13:37:34.100+00:002012-11-28T13:37:34.100+00:00I am sure that they would like to stop people doin...I am sure that they would like to stop people doing all kinds of things for themselves. A scared and wary population is a compliant one and having to provide for all of the peoples every need justifies higher and higher taxation etc.<br />The more you do for yourself the less you need the state and the more you resent the cost of running the state.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-14535626389461194192012-11-28T12:43:13.263+00:002012-11-28T12:43:13.263+00:00Querns and thirlage.
Wheat and other grains store...Querns and thirlage.<br /><br />Wheat and other grains store well enough as grain. You take the amount you need for bread, grind it in a quern, take your flour and bake your bread. It's a lot of work and there are some problems such as if the quern stone material is soft and tends to shed in to the flour, so that you grind down your teeth quicker than you would with a better mill. <br /><br />The real reason, however, that querns were legislated against was to force people to use the landlord's mill and pay for it. Wiki says that in Scotland this thirlage was finally repealed in 2004 by an act coming in to force. <br /><br />At some point I'm expecting an act which outlaws ovens, cookers and all related open fires so that it is impossible to do so much as make toast on a fork. Then we will be totally state dependent for all food growth, production, distribution and preparation. Standby for animal welfare laws which make it illegal to do any home-killing of anything, including line-caught fish. <br /><br />In my more paranoid moments I wonder if mad cow disease (CJD) was either allowed or hyped precisely in order to have the excuse to shut down smaller local abattoirs and more closely control the food production chain. Please excuse me, my tinfoil helmet is itching.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.com