Daydream fund challenge part 4

ferretkeeper

Choille do keep safe, I saw the weekly forecast last night and they say mega winds for North Scotland over the coming days, 70-100 mph :eek:

Damn that jet stream!

lostinrates

Alfie.....

You need to find a home for your fluffy foster. I have another potential foster for you via a friend in L on don, but its a staffie type. Its owned by someone with mental health problems who neglects it and has agreed to give it to a friend of a friend to rehome, but friend of friend cannot. As a staffie type its chances of finding home I think are low. I understand though its sweet, good with other animals, and housetrained!

choille

I'd have a staffie - they can be lovely if treated well. But unfortunately they have a bad reputation, or that should be their owners do, or should.

Snow storms here plus plumber but no plasterer.

Keeps gusting but if it wasn't for the gulf stream we'd be in a worse mess most of the time I think.

The feed place I go to is great they are all trained in nutrition, meds, worming etc & they are extremely helpful & knowledgeable & really more reasonable that the big co in Inverness, so that is a great thing, plus they are my friends - handy friends to have.

lucielle

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

I haven't watched the programme, and I prob wont watch it on iplayer..


as you say Alfie, there is one born every minute.. regardless of what its crossed with, its a Mongrel..


watched resteration Man earlier.. they really done a good job of foxhole farm...

Ooh I was watching that. Thought it looked lovely.
L

COOLTRIKERCHICK

if it was going mouldy in the warm weather, it must have been in direct sunlight for the moisture in the pellet to heat up etc..


We have never had that problem, as with all food, keep out of direct sunlight and somewhere cool...


I have noticed now you got to register, with your feed merchant and every time you buy food it will be logged onto your details..
this is for farm animals that are destined to enter the food chain.. so if there is anything wrong or whatever, they can notify you.


Don't know if it is a new legisteration, or just the supplyer/producers thing. but if it isn't, I think it should be, as this also adds to traceability.. in the food chain..

ferretkeeper

Yes it is a new requirement, although I've only been asked at the place in ffairfach, not by my local one, although it's kind of inferred cos they know where I live, and I haven't bought anything but dog/cat/ferret food there lately. Nor by my regular place, although again they know me, and have my address etc already. Not sure how well it's being monitored and enforced yet...

Can't remember exactly what the problem was with the bagged feed but loads was getting returned, not just by me, and it happened more than once. Apparently the manufacturers knew about it, it was 'sweating' in the bags, but you'd think they would be able to store stuff properly, and check before sending it out.

Hope the doggies find homes, my friends found a dog that seems like it was dumped on the mountain, it was stuck in the cattle grid just by their house, this time of year, what are people thinking?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

FK if it is now a legal requirement, then your food supplier is breaking the law.


What I thought was happening, when a new batch of feed is made/logged onto the system for sale.. then who ever buys that 'batch' will be logged when buying it ( as they issue you with a client number ) ... so if something crops up with 'that batch' of food, they can contact you.. how can they remember who bought from what batch if it isn't logged down???


Also if in an extreme case, your animals get ill, due to the feed, then other people who bought that batch can be contacted/traced..

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Luceille,


I think they done a lovely job of the place...


managed to list some things on the bay this afternoon..


I have been getting used to my youngest notepad thing.. which now I find a lot quicker to list things on the bay with..so I have brought it home from work.. so hopefully I will have some time to list some more things from around the house tomorrow..

choille

All this traceability yet horse meat gets sold as beef.....

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

All this traceability yet horse meat gets sold as beef.....

Just because their are regulations and laws doesn't mean people don't break them.

For example. Its illegal to murder people, and we police and have regulations about firearms etc to aid that but people still murder.


Fwiw, I'm not really pro loads of beaurocracy ( I'm by nature I think a libertarian) but that doesn't mean the argument against traceability doesn't have value. People will ALWAYS break laws. The idea is to limit risk and be able to identify it ASAP. If we had not got a testing rego one and traceability we have people would still be munching horse burgers thinking they were beef.