Not just i Australia its here too. I read a couple years ago they want us to tag and register our chickens, haven't heard anything since but who knows.
I love chickens ! The neighbors chickens run loose and when they come over to visit us in our yard, Bobby chases them back out of our yard. I would definitely have a few chickens for the eggs if I could have them; but Bobby does not want chickens around, and his dog would probably kill them if they were loose in our back yard. Even if they want people to register their chickens, I doubt that is going to happen, at least for people like our neighbors who just have a few chickens in the back yard.
well...there's a war on chickens right now...eggs causing blood clots...chickens culled by millions ..supposedly avian flu...poultry feed does not contain the same ingredients as before...resulting in no laying hens? lots of funny stuff going on with chickens
Also, just in the last few days, several huge chicken farms that raise chickens for eggs have totally burned down suddenly. The bad feed was apparently being distributed through the Tractor Supply feed company, and when people stopped feeding that to their chickens, then they started laying eggs again.
I hope they don't make us register them too and if so they will have to go after lots of people. We both like chivkens but I do understand some people don't want them. Jakes mother was one of those who wouldn't allow chickens, but she had to care for them and butcher them when she was a child.
We've had them for 24 years and never had a problem. They do look really rough when they molt though. Chicken farms have too many in small areas.
We fought and won the right to keep chickens in our town, but then we decided that we travel too often to raise chickens. Otherwise, it would be a good idea. As for government warnings about chickens or eggs, I'll chalk that up to more of the same in the government's agenda to control the availability of food. They need to keep us dependent. After the past couple of years, government health agencies have zero credibility as far as I am concerned. They destroyed any semblance of credibility.
For the past 23 years at times, we have left our chickens, dogs, cats, donkey and horse here for as long as a week, like when Jakes Father got ill and passed was the weeklong period. We give them plenty of food and water. Usually its only 5 days. But most are in a fence, pen or pasture. So far we have been lucky, we have left chickens here often. We lost one of our cats once we took to Georgia in our bus, she went running thru the forest at Pone Mountain Campground never to be seen again, we looked hard for her for days. I'm sure without the large dogs something would have happend.
In my defense: It’s okay by me if Yvonne has chickens but: 1. Whether the Latino’s get busted for having chickens or not, there’s a city ordinance that makes it unlawful to have them. A $250 fine is a big price to pay for fresh chicken eggs. 2. I’m the guy who will have to build the coup and maintain it. 3. I’m the guy who will inevitably have to collect the eggs. 4. I’m also that same person who will have to take care of the whole thing just as I do with the dogs when Yvonne goes on her trips. 5. Yes, we have not one but two dogs. Both go in the back yard and both like chicken.
@Marie Mallery, it freezes here, though. We have someone who comes by a couple of times a day and ensures the cats are taken care of but I don't know about chicken sitters. I expect that someone wouldn't want to say that they were a chicken sitter.