Re: Hobby farmers pose bird flu risk ?


" Jill" <newsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim Webster wrote:
> > "Malcolm" <Malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:nsB49tEdq03DFwI3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >> In article <drnfij$6ba$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Pat
> >> Gardiner <patgardiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> >>> Pat's Note: I'm incandescent with rage.
> >>>
> >> Better watch your blood pressure, then.
> >>
> >>> Maff-Defra imposes what seem perfectly sensible regulations to
> >>> register poultry in case of need in the event of bird flu.
> >>>
> >>> For some reason they exempt flocks with less than 50 birds.
> >>>
> >> Yes, because of the difficulty of discovering them all.
> >
> > yes, they haven't a clue who they are or where they are. They have
> > been trying to contact them through various associations and clubs.
>
> But they have not requested any of them inform anyone of their presence or
> their ownership
> So putting information out in a format that is distributed once a year or
is
> published 6 weeks after being written is a complete waste of time

yes, they are in a bind. Remember that anyone who registers is on the
livestock register. All those on the livestock register will also go on the
'customer register' and their 'land' will have to be mapped as well.
They cannot cope. What was initially intended to be a RPA customer register
with perhaps 100,000 on it tops, is going to end up with more than that
small poultry keepers.
I suspect the treasury will not fund the sort of register that Defra have
suddenly discovered EU regulations have now foisted on them
--

Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result



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