bird flu hits bernard mathews turkeys...what do you think?

earwig

tr3mor wrote:

There isn't any risk.

thats what they said about bse

im not going to panic im just not going to test out their theory that its safe to eat infected meat and then find out later that there is a risk

dannahaz

160 THOUSAND turkeys. My god, how can you have 160,000 turkeys on one farm. And 3000 in one shed. I knew how awful turkey conditions could be (we refuse to eat the bird because of it), but that number is just mind blowing. Evemn bringing it down to, say, 3000 turkeys in one shed is inconceivable. I mean, we're talking about TURKEYS. Not sparrows.

I mean, even if I try and imagine...coasters, say (im sitting at the table). I can't imagine what space 160 would occupy...160 THOUSAND.

What a terrible life it would have been for them anyway.

Sorry, I don't mean to go on.

ti1980

Maybe its a massive shed the size of a borough in London, but I doubt it!

As long as people demand cheap meat, conditions will stay as they are. That is a whole other issue though.

I've not eaten BM branded things since I was a kid, I used to love the turkey drummers, would buy them when they were BOGOF. I was a money saver back then!

beer2006

I'd never buy any processed chicken or turkey food, especially BM, but no more especially than any other make

I was wondering how it got into the turkey sheds as well, they are very hot on things like that on these intensive farms.

I hadn't even thought about the price of turkey going down I shall be filling my boots!

CTC Chickens are flock animals, you should really keep more than one. I've made the shed I was going to use to put mine in (if we were told to keep them under cover) for something else now! I might be in trouble here.

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mmm I`m thinking here. Does the gov compensate farmers if they have to slaughter the birds? 3000 x £ would certainly help cashflow. Oh slap hand!!

only saying this because the farmers talk around here was how some farmers deliberately introduced f and m so they would get the compensation payments

competitionscafe

Seems like the writer of this article spoke too soon!

" Published: 31 December 2006

After an annus horribilis, things are brightening this weekend for the turkey baron Bernard Matthews. "
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/profiles/article2114412.ece

Bernard Matthews staff played 'baseball' with live turkey
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23366196-details/Bernard+Matthews+staff+played+'baseball'+with+live+turkey/article.do

http://www.guardian.co.uk/animalrights/story/0,,1867158,00.html

COOLTRIKERCHICK

beer2006 wrote:

CTC Chickens are flock animals, you should really keep more than one. I've made the shed I was going to use to put mine in (if we were told to keep them under cover) for something else now! I might be in trouble here.

ye i know.... but over the years they have died off... last week my last muscovey 'mr charlie drake' died....

so left with one chicken now......i dont really want to give her away... as she's no spring chicken' bit of an old boiler really ( like her owner ) and as she would not be a regular layer.. i dred to think what could happen to her:eek: .. as i know some peeps that have picked pet sheep up 'free to good home' in the free-ad paper.. and the following week they are in their freezer ...

when her new pen is done..... might get a pair of bantams to keep her company.....plus if the government bring in a ruling that they have to be indoors.... then it would be easier ....as at the mo.. she's free to roam.... also i think there might be a few 'pet' chickens ...ducks etc..... needing new homes soon as i am sure some people will be freightened about this and start dumping them......

beer2006

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote:

as i know some peeps that have picked pet sheep up 'free to good home' in the free-ad paper.. and the following week they are in their freezer ...

Apparently pot bellied pigs are very good eating, if I had the recources I might be tempted to pick up some of those pet ones for free, I do admit.

Sorry about your duck.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

we used to have a pot belly pig... called 'rasher'

very funny and comical......

could never eat her .....she was part of the family

my charlie was such a character.... he used to keep all the hens in order....and all the other ducks too

beer2006

When I had a drake the only thing he was interested in keeping in order was his sex life, ducks or chickens he didn't care............. chickens weren't too fond of it though.