Nice and easy one to get Friday going. A friend has free roaming chickens. I asked what he was doing about the ‘Chicken lockdown’ and he said ‘nothing. It’s all made up’. He also thinks climate change and COVID are made up. Staunch anti vaxxer and refuses to wear a mask. Swears by homeopathy and his copper wrist band though. Do I report the chickens, or mind my own business?
Does he wear a tin foil hat to stop the satellites controling his mind and the 5G shrinking his brain. As for the chickens 180c for about 90 minutes cures all Ills and with a bit of Paxo added makes a tasty sandwich.
Whether or not you report him is up to you. Pointless arguing about it with him, if he's as much in denial as you say. Eventually, though, the sea levels will rise and he'll have to trade his chickens in for ducks.
Is he an actual friend or just someone you know? If he's not an actual friend then dob him in. If he is an actual friend then choose more wisely in future. Fookin hatstand. New regs kick in on 14th, still time to convince him.
Can you give more details about the free roaming please as I have chickens and we have ours in a run with a caged roof
I wouldn’t say ‘good friend’ but would definitely make things awkward if he found out it was me. I feel snidey just thinking about it.
How many chickens does he own? Am I right in thinking that the risk is that random birds with flu could transmit it to his chickens and then his chickens could pass it on to another random bird?
I think as long as they stay in there, you’re all good. Basically it’s to protect against contact with other wild birds, who could then be carriers for avian flu. This chump just has them clucking round the garden. Google defra chickens, rules will be there. I googled ‘dodgy birds’ and got a very different set of search results
That’s the size of it. It’s eliminating contact with wild birds, who would be carriers. Doesn’t matter how many you have though. Rules apply if you have 1 or 1,000.
Then honestly the rules are stupid. They are clearly intended to stop the large farms of chickens from leaving their thousands outside rather than being there to stop the one chicken in a back garden from the very slim chance of it somehow becoming a super spreader. Your mate is an idiot for thinking everything is a conspiracy but him allowing a handful of his own pets into his back garden is hardly the crime of the century.
