Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Perris]

GMO chickens

You are confusing gene editing with genetically modified. Gene editing - what's involved in the case in hand - is just cutting out a bit of the genes that are already there. It is used for various human congenital diseases and stops the disease being expressed in the person carrying it.
Genetic modification (GMO) is putting bits of genes from one organism into another, and is what more justifiably causes concern about creating frankensteins.

 

[Ladies-Eight]

Ex Batts good morning one and all!

@Shadrach I'm glad you are moving closer to the allotments and your family.

Temperature is in the 70s cloudy with rain coming.

Have a great day!

 

[Perris]

It would appear that if you have spare plots @Shadrach , there are a lot of people in Bristol who would like one: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...otments-in-england-almost-doubles-in-12-years

 

[BDutch]

I agree, 100%. Nature does it's job pretty perfectly, if people stay out of it.

True. End of the use of fossil fuels, perfect chances for the (rain)forests to regrow, even the melting of the glaciers would come to an end over … years.
But I do wonder what your plan would be with the 8 billion people?

 

[BDutch]

NC wants all chicken owners to register, "for their own good". I see it as another invasion of privacy, and a way for bureaucrats to track down flocks for destruction if Avian flu breaks out again.

Could be to protect the chicken meat and egg industry.

One of the things the chickens farmers wanted : the rules for bird flu as severe as theirs for hobbyists. And also tried to undermine the proof that factory farmers contribute to environmental pollution (as wel as traffic and industries)

In our country the factory farmers put pressure on the government to protect their industry no matter what.
They even used aggressive actions with tractors to go on with the pollution without restrictions.

PS, in two areas in a dense chicken/farm area there are restrictions for over 2 years now because of the bird flu. In a large part of the country its possible to let chickens free range outside again since the summer started.

 

[MrsNorthie]

NC wants all chicken owners to register, "for their own good". I see it as another invasion of privacy, and a way for bureaucrats to track down flocks for destruction if Avian flu breaks out again.

As Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’"

 

[Shadrach]

I know there was a push to try to require citizens to report their gardens and what they are growing, to the USDA. I also know that they were pushing mandatory vaccines for farm animals and backyard chickens, but I don't think SC will go along with it and if they do, they will have a fight.

My objection is the attempting to make vaccines mandatory for backyard chickens is it has very little to do with attempting to protect backyard flocks and it's primarily about protecting the large commercial egg and meat producers.

 

[Shadrach]

Living in a small place does not have only inconveniences. It means less cleaning, less stuff you don't need, usually leads to better space organisation. I've lived in bigger and smaller flats in the cities and I would choose small.
A more important point for me was the level of daylight and noise.

I won't be moving. The flat I was informed about was not the flat I was offered finally.
The living room in the flat I'm currently living in is quite small measuring 4.2 metres by 2.9 metres. That's quite small but I've managed to get my things arranged in it so it doesn't feel overly cramped. The living room in the flat they finally offered me was 2.6 metres by 2.1 metres.
I would have to dispose of half my furniture which I've had for years.
Add to this the offered flat's location changed from first floor to ground floor and both the bedroom and the living room window faced the road (albeit a very quiet road) that leads to the flat complex.
I get lots of light in my current flat but would need a torch to see my way around the new flat. The windows are much smaller and being on the ground floor there is less light.

Apart from changing names and formalizing things, will the agreement actually change things for the allotment holders ?

Yes. Perhaps when the dust has settled a bit I'll explain why. It's a major step forward.

 

[Shadrach]

ow much closer is it to the allotments and your eldest?

It would have been 1.1 miles compared to 6.4 miles.

 

[Shadrach]

It would appear that if you have spare plots @Shadrach , there are a lot of people in Bristol who would like one: https://www.theguardian.com/environ...otments-in-england-almost-doubles-in-12-years

While I call them allotments the field is in fact an agricultural land letting we discovered having got a copy of the lease. The field is leased to the group, but the lease doesn't define what the group is. Part of the discussions we've had recently is to define the group and the trustee body.