Chickens

[Alex]

In Britain from next Tuesday it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities.  Just so you know


Telegraph.

[Mups]

In Britain from next Tuesday it will be a criminal offence to keep a chicken without registering it with the authorities.  Just so you know


Telegraph.

I'm probably wrong,  but I thought they had to be registered anyway if you had over a certain number - was it 50?
Something to do with the Bird Flu epidemics and locating where poultry is kept.

[Michael Rolls]

oh for pity's sake! What next? A register of guinea pigs?

[dextrous63]

I'm probably wrong,  but I thought they had to be registered anyway if you had over a certain number - was it 50?
Something to do with the Bird Flu epidemics and locating where poultry is kept.

It was, but they changed it down from 50 to..... 1.

[Michael Rolls]

for chicken farms - at one time my neighbour had 9,000, fair enough - but for ONE?

[dextrous63]

It's the new Magna Carta for Poultry.

[Alex]

I've got one in the freezer, I might register it. 

[dextrous63]

If you have a budgie, then you don't need to register it unless you take it outside for training.

[Alex]

Amazing how they can keep track of chickens, but not bloody dinghy boys 

[klondike]

My son used to take half a dozen at a time when they were "retired" from egg farms and keep them till until they had all died as replacing them one by one doesn't work - upsets the pecking order. The last one died from the last batch some time back and he decided to have a garden again rather than get another group. They are in abysmal condition when they come from a farm but do recover.

[Mups]

Amazing how they can keep track of chickens, but not bloody dinghy boys 

Very true. 

[dextrous63]

Amazing how they can keep track of chickens, but not bloody dinghy boys 

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[Vlad]

Does that new law include the ones still in the eggshell?