Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[appps]

Did you guys know its illegal to feed leftovers of meat or that have been in contact with meat to our chooks?

http://www.daff.qld.gov.au/animal-i...d-diseases/protect-your-animals/swill-feeding

Someone pasted that on another thread. I had no idea and do it all the time. I'm rather surprised to be honest.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Our council has $10.000 fines for people feeding food scraps containing meat to pigs, but I wasn't aware of a poultry ban. I guess it makes sense, being as chickens are supply us with meat and eggs. Salmonella can be lethal.

 

[appps]

Its not even salmonella.

Diseases that can be introduced as a consequence of swill feeding include:

foot and mouth disease
African swine fever
classical swine fever (hog cholera)
Aujeszky's disease
swine vesicular disease
Newcastle disease in poultry
vesicular stomatitis
transmissible gastroenteritis.
These viruses could be found even in small amounts of meat or dairy product and if included in swill and fed to pigs, poultry or ruminants, could establish an exotic (or foreign) disease in our livestock. Once a disease agent is introduced in this way it could rapidly spread among different types of livestock. If an exotic disease is detected in Australia, then countries importing our livestock products could close their markets and ban our products. Regaining markets is then a difficult and long-term process.

And its backyard chickens not just commercial by the sound of this bit

You must not feed swill to stock or possess swill for the purpose of feeding it to stock.

This means that food or food scraps containing or that are contaminated with animal matter from any source, such as leftovers from restaurants, hospitals, supermarkets and domestic households, must not be fed to any livestock. Animal carcases or meat, including that from kangaroos, must also not be fed to livestock. Vegetables and vegetable matter served on the same plate as meat or discarded into the same containers as animal matter are considered to be contaminated materials and should not be fed to livestock. All commercially prepared meals of animal origin i.e. blood meal, meat and bone meal, meat meal, bone meal, fish meal and poultry meal cannot be fed to ruminants (cattle sheep goats etc.). However, you can feed these meals to non-ruminants e.g. pigs and poultry.

 

[smallbluejellybean]

That is Queensland law. I can't find anything like that in NSW.

 

[smallbluejellybean]

Found it thanks.

 

[smallbluejellybean]

Can I ask a question. When I cook a BBQ and as I'm cooking, give a little cooked meat to my pet dog and say for example your chicken steals it. Does that mean your breaking the law?
And what is the government going to do with the wild mice that my chickens catch, kill and eat?
Wouldn't they have more diseases in them than a little fresh cooked meat?
I don't think many people are going to change.
I personally feel if it isn't good enough for me to eat, it isn't good enough for my animals.

 

[appps]

I'm wondering if its more because of imported meat. The disease such as newcastles could be present and not worry us but a chicken or other livestock could catch something.
But do we import much meat? Tend to think we export but maybe we do?

Mind you newcastles disease is already in Australia isn't it? So I guess its a spreading it thing

 

[Fancychooklady]

It's a broad brush they use to sweep clean. They are making the laws to protect everyone.
It's more to stop bakeries, fast food and restaurant leftovers being fed to animals. After laying around all day in the pie oven, then dumped into a plastic bag and thrown on the back of a ute and transported around in stifling heat. The good old meat pie really does become a " maggot bag ". And put up your hand if you haven't had a touch of " gastro " after eating takeaway. My daughter was recently admitted to hospital after eating a pie at a truck stop, nearly prevented her from competing at nationals.
I don't think the health inspector will come knocking on your door if you feed your chooks a sausage from the BBQ. Just don't tell anyone your doing it.

 

[appps]

I always wondered who was brave enough to eat servo pies lol

 

[smallbluejellybean]

It's a broad brush they use to sweep clean. They are making the laws to protect everyone.
It's more to stop bakeries, fast food and restaurant leftovers being fed to animals. After laying around all day in the pie oven, then dumped into a plastic bag and thrown on the back of a ute and transported around in stifling heat. The good old meat pie really does become a " maggot bag ". And put up your hand if you haven't had a touch of " gastro " after eating takeaway. My daughter was recently admitted to hospital after eating a pie at a truck stop, nearly prevented her from competing at nationals.
I don't think the health inspector will come knocking on your door if you feed your chooks a sausage from the BBQ. Just don't tell anyone your doing it.

We don't eat too much take out and it has made me ill on occasions. I think it is healthier for you, your family and pets to know what is in your food and how old it is. That's why a little piece of freshly cooked Australian meat can not be considered swill. I actually hate the word swill, it just sounds like yuck and I don't feed my animals yuck. I feed my chickens what I consider kitchen scraps, not rubbish that should be in the bin. These are fresh, washed, off cuts of things like cabbage, spinach, beats, ends of cucumbers and tomatoes etc. They are fresh and I do not leave them out long for them to feed on. Two hours and what isn't consumed is in the bin with our plate scrapings. Most of these veggies are picked that day from our veggie patch.
The laws looked focused on food business's and the NSW law really only included pigs and not poultry.
Also, I can not see how it can be policed, as I do not see how inspectors are going to go around knocking on peoples doors to see if they have backyard chickens and inspecting what they are feeding them.
I wanted my chickens, for fresh free ranged eggs. I didn't buy them for garbage disposals.