[Newsbot]

Title: Vancouver latest municipality to allow urban chickens
Category: Strange
Posted By: TattoodGirl
Date: 2009-03-06 07:35:53
Canadian

[ridenrain]

Gone to the birds.
I can just imagine this is going to be a disaster in a few years.

[Caelon]

The article states Victoria has had urban chickens with few bylaw problems. So noise and smell would not appear to be a major problem.

I would be more concerned with the health issues. The average person has little or no knowledge of avian diseases or treatment. They are unlikely to use the proper medications required to maintain a healthy flock. A dead bird would be thrown in the garbage can and later deposited in the city dump.

The lower mainland is densely populated with layers and meat birds. An outbreak of the disease of choice in Vaqncouver could have devastating effects on the surrounding commercial population. In would not be unreasonable to see the forced extermination of a few million birds. The economic hardship on the commercial producers would be extreme. Think back to the avian flue scare and the slaughtered flocks. All so John Doe can have a few birds and go out to the shed to have some eggs or a roaster. He isn't heven saving any money as the cost of feed, etc exceeds the cost of the finished product in the store. The risk benefit does not appear to balance and I believe Vancouver should rethink its decision.

[Zipperfish]

ridenrain wrote:

Gone to the birds.
I can just imagine this is going to be a disaster in a few years.

Disaster is an understatemnt. This will be the Apocalypse.

[Alta_redneck]

What’s a rural chicken got to do to get a place in town.

[Robair]

Apocalypse?

Raising chickens isn't rocket science. Niether is sluaghtering them.

[Robair]

Caelon wrote:

He isn't heven saving any money as the cost of feed, etc exceeds the cost of the finished product in the store.

How did you come up with that?

[Caelon]

Robair wrote:

Caelon wrote:

He isn't even saving any money as the cost of feed, etc exceeds the cost of the finished product in the store.

How did you come up with that?

A commercial operator buys their feed in 10 to 20 tonne lots. The hobbyist by the bag, which is a lot more per kg of feed. A broiler chicken in the store takes about 2.7 kg of feed per kg of gain in weight. They hobbyist is lucky if he keeps it under double that rate. A commercial layer operation produces 21 dozen eggs per hen housed on day 1 of the laying cycle. The hobbyist might get half. Nutrition and lighting cycles are important for layers and if you do not control the lighting properly you can stop the whole laying cycle.

Ohh and the cost of buying chicks in small lots of under 1000 is higher and when you get down to lots of a dozen it can be 4 times higher than the commercial oepreation.

[bootlegga]

Zipperfish wrote:

ridenrain wrote:

Gone to the birds.
I can just imagine this is going to be a disaster in a few years.

Disaster is an understatemnt. This will be the Apocalypse.

No doubt, I predict the next bird flu epidemic will start in Vancouver.

[ridenrain]

This looks like a job for...

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I'm predicting huge swarms of flesh eating, feral chickens sweeping thorugh the city in less than a year.

[TattoodGirl]

I got a good giggle at the front page of the Vancouver Sun this morning...they showed a variety of 'Chickens' and the stats of weight, height and egg yield per week. The problem was the pic was of roosters...see how damn progressive Vancouver is...We get roosters to lay eggs!!

[ridenrain]

Some of the bicycle and bus nazis were suggesting the idea of using loose chickens as a "traffic calming". Considering people arn't safe on the streets, I can't believe these idiots are such poor judges of human charactor.
At least the homeless will have something to eat.

[TattoodGirl]

ridenrain wrote:

Some of the bicycle and bus nazis were suggesting the idea of using loose chickens as a "traffic calming". Considering people arn't safe on the streets, I can't believe these idiots are such poor judges of human charactor.
At least the homeless will have something to eat.

Are you serious?!?!?!
Thats asinine!!!

[ridenrain]

These are the same folks who run the "critical mass" rides so it's pretty obvious they hate cars with an insane passion.

[ziggy]

Didnt some country just send the bird flu virus out in the mail the other day?
Sure I saw it as a news headline here somewhere this morning,or maybe it was CBC.