Posted on 10/06/2024 6:56:43 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
With Autumn has come the deadline for Registering your Poultry with DEFRA (and the APHA) under new regulations introduced to prevent the spread of Bird Flu.
Under the new legislation, all keepers of poultry in England and Wales, even if you just have two or three pottering around your allotment or garden, must register them with DEFRA before Tuesday 1st October 2024.
DO NOT WORRY! The Registration only requires your address, the number of birds you keep, and the type (e.g. chicken, duck, geese etc). It is an online registration form but you can email them if you prefer at customer.registration@apha.gov.uk
Under previous guidance, this was only applicable to those with 50 or more birds, but in the ongoing efforts to stem the spread of Bird Flu, this has been expanded to include all of us. Scotland has a later deadline of 1st December 2024, but registration is now available.
DEFRA and APHA UK The online registration is easy - follow this link to the DEFRA Registration page - and it is simply so that, should incidences of Bird Flu or disease breakout in your area, they can inform you to keep your birds under cover.
We understand there have been issues for some of you trying to register by the deadline so the APHA (DEFRA) have given the following contact number and email for you to get help if needed.
If you do not register, or make efforts to register, your birds you could open yourself up to a hefty fine or 3 months imprisonment under the Animal Health Act 1981 (section 75).
This registration policy will keep any 'flockdowns' far more localised rather than, as in previous outbreaks, telling the whole country to keep their birds enclosed for months on end.
(Excerpt) Read more at flytesofancy.co.uk ...
This is Hugh and Series.
Duck, cudk, go!
This way they can declare a bird flu pandemic and kill all the chickens when its time to starve the peasants.
Whenever one of the Crown’s countries decides to muscle up their adipose androgenous bureaucrats in dark insignia windbreakers, they always go XXL.
Our founders knew what they were doing with the Bill of Rights.
Well said.
And to spare you the mental trauma of watching you chickens die in front of you, we will take your chickens to an undisclosed location to be humanly euthanized.
Don't worry our Chef will carefully care for the carcass of your chickens very respectfully.
2A all the way!
First they came for the poultry...
I may be wrong but didn’t the U.K’s response to hoof and mouth turn out to be an absolute cock up which resulted in the unnecessary culling of large numbers of livestock? Based on models of disease spread, of course. Can we expect more of the same in any response to bird flu?
I’m sorry Governor, but all my bleedin’ birds died in a tragic boating accident.
BS.
Registering them only tells the government where to find food.
It does NOTHING to stop the spread of disease.
Thanks for the laugh.
I thnk I’m safe. Just bought organic, pasture-raised chicken thighs at Trader Joe .
Imprisonment?? As usual, a heavy-handed approach by the UK, on a flimsy excuse.
No, not just the UK; let’s make it worldwide.
Flood their servers with information on all poultry worldwide.
Go count the geese and ducks at you neighborhood park.
Report them.
On second thought, is the database available to Haitian voodoo practitioners?
I certainly hope not.
Nothing to do with bird flu.
I notice that the local Haitian voodoo practioners are exempt because of dei.
Just sign ‘ere, straight away. The governor only wants to know how many birds you been having.
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