Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

I'm honestly surprised that eggs could be imported at all.

Oh, they can be imported but it tends to be super expensive & regulated to death. I know for the Phoenix there's only about a dozen breeders in the whole of Australia & most are only breeding small numbers because it is an extremely small gene pool. These birds are on the endangered list here & no wonder! I located 3 breeders around Brissie. None have birds @ present ~ but we are in winter. Two won't have any in the foreseeable future & the 3rd ended up with nearly all cockerels last season & has kept his pullets, understandably! He may have young pullets come spring...? Maybe...

 

[Ribh]

It is for this very reason that I am looking at making a career change myself.

I absolutely love the doctor I work with and the patients are wonderful, but my 2 coworkers are just so unhappy and miserable in their own lives that they bring me down to depressive levels. I've tried to just ignore them and do my job and be done with it, but I just can't any longer.

The final straw was when Rich was sick. Not once did either of them reach out to me. When I returned I was greeted with attitude and ignored. Never one did they ask how Rich was. I realize life is too short to be somewhere where you are unhappy.

I think this has been coming for a while. They sound awful & I can't think how they have managed to keep their jobs!

 

[RoyalChick]

It is for this very reason that I am looking at making a career change myself.

I absolutely love the doctor I work with and the patients are wonderful, but my 2 coworkers are just so unhappy and miserable in their own lives that they bring me down to depressive levels. I've tried to just ignore them and do my job and be done with it, but I just can't any longer.

The final straw was when Rich was sick. Not once did either of them reach out to me. When I returned I was greeted with attitude and ignored. Never one did they ask how Rich was. I realize life is too short to be somewhere where you are unhappy.

Doesn't the doctor realize how bad they are? Maybe it is the two of them who should be thinking of moving on.

 

[BY Bob]

I looked into importing fertile eggs.

They have to be held in quarantine for a while, so it's rather costly.

I'm terribly sorry but I laughed at that. I understand your intense rules to protect your country and I'm not trying to be disrespectful. BUT.......

.......What is an egg bringing with it? Can you take an egg's temperature? Do they carry COVID? Unless you are going to hatch them and test the chick, what is the quarantine protecting you from? I don't get it. Perhaps I can be educated. Does anyone know what risk a chicken egg carries with it.

 

[Ribh]

I'm terribly sorry but I laughed at that. I understand your intense rules to protect your country and I'm not trying to be disrespectful. BUT.......

.......What is an egg bringing with it? Can you take an egg's temperature? Do they carry COVID? Unless you are going to hatch them and test the chick, what is the quarantine protecting you from? I don't get it. Perhaps I can be educated. Does anyone know what risk a chicken egg carries with it.

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/online-services/bicon

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

I think this has been coming for a while. They sound awful & I can't think how they have managed to keep their jobs!

It has been.

I've only stayed for the doctor, but now it's time to go.

 

[CrazyChookChookLady]

Doesn't the doctor realize how bad they are? Maybe it is the two of them who should be thinking of moving on.

Yes he does. He's offer to replace them before, but I can't is good conscience have him fire have the work force because of me. The entire office is only 4 people and that is why it is so bad.

 

[RoyalChick]

Yes he does. He's offer to replace them before, but I can't is good conscience have him fire have the work force because of me. The entire office is only 4 people and that is why it is so bad.

That is very kind-hearted of you but in my experience if they are awful to you they are likely not great with the patients and may end up being awful to whoever replaces you and maybe to each other too.
I think the doctor would be better off for his practice having good staff who care about his patients. You would be doing him a favor to stay and help him find people to replace them.

 

[MaryJanet]

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/online-services/bicon

And here's the page about fertile eggs.

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/impo...mports/notice-to-industry-fertile-egg-imports

 

[MaryJanet]

I'm terribly sorry but I laughed at that. I understand your intense rules to protect your country and I'm not trying to be disrespectful. BUT.......

.......What is an egg bringing with it? Can you take an egg's temperature? Do they carry COVID? Unless you are going to hatch them and test the chick, what is the quarantine protecting you from? I don't get it. Perhaps I can be educated. Does anyone know what risk a chicken egg carries with it.

I can't answer for the rules, because it's well outside my knowledge, but they might be worried about packaging as well as the eggs? The people who oversee imports know eggs are a special case and have specific rules covering eventualities.

I think the primary driver is the protection of native plants and wildlife, but a significant secondary driver would be the economic benefit in terms of tourism, which pre-covid was in the billions. I once saw a tourist's face light up at his first glance at a wallaby in the wild, he was over the moon!