Backyard chickens need more regulation: Safety of birds and people at stake

[BantyChooks]

I feel like my brain needs triple ply toilet paper after reading that.

x2

What really made me roll my eyes was the 'routine veterinary care' thing. There's very few injuries or illnesses I cannot treat my birds for myself, and the remaining things that are beyond me are 95% best treated with an axe anyway.

I don't have a dog in the figurative urban chicken keeping hunt, so perhaps I am missing something—but that's my viewpoint as of now. Uncle Sam and his ilk can go sit in their corners and eat their bland eggs and meat if they want.

Edited for clarification.

 

[centrarchid]

It would be interesting to see who funded the research.

 

[Chickassan]

I enjoyed the quips on sanitation and manure control not being on par with industry standard. My goodness, not enough chickens have ammonia burns in the world apparently. Malarkey, pure unfiltered malarkey.

x2

What really made me roll my eyes was the 'routine veterinary care' thing. There's very few injuries or illnesses I cannot treat my birds for myself, and the remaining things that are beyond me are 95% best treated with an axe anyway.

I don't have a dog in the figurative urban chicken keeping hunt, so perhaps I am missing something—but that's my viewpoint as of now. Uncle Sam and his ilk can go sit in their corners and eat their bland eggs and meat if they want.

Edited for clarification.

 

[sannabelle]

Surprised there wasn’t a link to an “egglands best” advert on that article.....

 

[Hopperkiller]

Probably the same person who wanted to tax cow farts!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Apis mellifera]

I'm so glad they included the caption "These are baby chicks" under the photo. I wasn't quite sure what they were. Are people really that disconnected from agriculture?

 

[BantyChooks]

I'm so glad they included the caption "These are baby chicks" under the photo. I wasn't quite sure what they were. Are people really that disconnected from agriculture?

I want me some of them non-baby chicks.

The whole article is a trainwreck.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Did you know that you can't bring a cow to the butcher if she can't walk into the slaughterhouse on her own legs? Sounds great!

So what the *cheep!* do you do with a heifer with a broken leg?

I really want the people {who made that law} telling me how to butcher my chickens.

 

[BantyChooks]

I really want those people telling me how to butcher my chickens.

Well, look on the bright side—maybe they'll pay for a spiffy new processing setup.

 

[sylviethecochin]

Well, look on the bright side—maybe they'll pay for a spiffy new processing setup.

Of course. How nice of them.




They'll be using my tax dollars, obviously.