"Martin" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:23:31 +0000, bert ] wrote:

In message , Martin Brown
writes
On 20/11/2012 12:22, Martin wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 11:48:53 -0000, "David WE Roberts"
wrote:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...isk-poultry-fa
rms-garden-flocks.html

"Study co-author Iveta Karabozhilova called for greater regulation of
back
garden chickens and more communication between householders and health
officials."

I thought it was Labour who wanted to legislate everything.
If there are 500,000 people keeping chickens then applying regulations
to
them isn't going to be easy or cheap (cheep?).

No doubt this will also roll over to allotments.

No doubt this is more rubbish from the Daily Mail.

Actually for the Mail that is a fairly balanced article.

There isn't enough awareness among chicken owning public of the welfare
requirements of hens when kept as garden pets/lifestyle accessories.

Lot's of houses (including mine) have covenants in the deeds forbidding
the keeping of poultry.

I had a third floor flat in Cwmbran where keeping pigs was
specifically forbidden.
--

Martin

I can keep pigs if I want to, my deeds say so. I don't want to. They are
scary because I cannot read them. I cannot tell whether or not they are
going to be annoyed. A friend of mine got his thigh muscle ripped out by a
pig. That's affected my perception of them.
Tina