We’re already registered as poultry keepers, I don’t have any issues with it as it allows DEFRA to keep an overview of hygiene, numbers and welfare while issuing targeted local notifications of diseases in your area. I’m also registered as a bee keeper and smallholder. There is no point in getting paranoid about it, it won’t do much good because it is almost certainly going to happen after the irresponsible way many new poultry keepers have been acting during the period when their birds should have been confined in a roofed structure to protect them from bird flu. If people are not prepared to invest in suitable housing then perhaps they shouldn’t be keeping poultry.
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Toddy said
“My garden alone has everything from crows and woodpigeons to the occasional moorhen and heron.....and about twenty other kinds of birds, on a daily basis.
There are folks around here with garden hens, they too must get visited by those wild birds. That's true right across the country.”
This is the problem with bird flu in a nutshell, many back yard keepers are utterly clueless as to the danger that they pose to themselves or the greater poultry industry with their few unregistered bantams that are sharing feeders, drinkers and exposed to wild birds poop.
