[sclarke624]

Rather alarmed someone at OH work said to be careful to wear gloves when putting chicken manure pellets on beds as they have mad cow disease in them.  Can't believe they would sell something that dangerous.  They reckoned it was ok as long as you didn't get it into any open cuts on self.  But what does it do to the food you eat if it is true.  These two  women that said about it are dramatatists though so shouldn't be surprised if there is a bit of exaggerating going on.

[crowndale]

I would be very suprised if it were true.

[DD.]

Makes you wonder who makes up these 'Urban Myths'. Are they really thick, or do they have nothing better to do? The sad thing is some people think they are fact and then propagate the myth.

Can you imagine the litigation if companies were knowingly selling products containing BSE?  The litigation would be bad enough if they UNknowingly sold such products.

[Flying Cyril]

Sounds like rubbish to me. How would mad cow disease get into chickens They would have to eat the infected cows and I've never come across meat eating chickens before.
"Flying" Cyril.

[WG.]

Utter b*llocks.  Chicken manure pellets are perfectly safe to use on your garden.  These two women are particularly free from risk since the BSE/vCJD theories both require brain tissue somewhere in the cycle!

I can only imagine that they have become dreadfully confused by one theory as to how BSE arose ... driven by the quest for higher profits, some manufacturers started using animal proteins as a cheap protein supplement in food for dairy cattle.  Supplements included dead chickens from chicken farms & tissue from slaughter houses.  Unbelievable but sadly true.

It is theorised that this food led to the formation of rogue proteins in the brain of the cow.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy

All I would suggest is that you do not eat the chicken manure pellets nor should you allow your milkman to do so.  

[Aunt Sally]

someone at OH work said...  

And who are they...  

DEFRA vets  :?:

Fertiliser manufacturers  :?:

Someone who knows anything at all about BSE and its spread  :?:

[wellingtons]

... next door's dog eats them and he's seems to be fine ... rooster pellets that is.  I don't know why he eats them, but he does.

Mind you I had a cat who used to like to lick the bleach bottle and suck rubber bands.

Neither one of them ever mentioned any concerns about BSE ... well not to me anyhoo ...  

[sclarke624]

All I would suggest is that you do not eat the chicken manure pellets nor should you allow your milkman to do so.

Thats a shame as I was going to make a cheep meal with the chick maure as it was buy one get one half price.  Milkman no problem, its so long since I've seen one my 23 year old doesn't even know what they are.

I thought it was rubbish, one of the women always has a bigger story to make yours sound insignificant, basically she tells whoppas.  No excuse for the other she is  horticulturist qualified, but doesn't practise it a civvie in the police.  As is OH so no rude remarks about that.

[David.]

Thats a shame as I was going to make a cheep meal with the chick manure.

It's chick peas that make a cheep meal, not chick poo.

[wellingtons]

... are tricky little blighters, there are always a few leftover on the plate that you can't quite stab!

[Annie]

Again I agree,this is scaremongering,and knowing someone whose husband died of CJD it makes me a bit cross.

[drdave]

Its absolute rubbish!
I would suggest handling chicken chit with care however for the reason that salmonella and other pathogens are present. I am unsure about pelleted chicken doo. Is it sterilized? In any event chicken doodoo will not give you CJD. Only ingestion of animal nerve tissue from cattle and humans (ohyes!) can do that. Eating chicken doodoo not advised, but on plants, no problem.
There was a disease called Kuru, like vCJD that affected headunter cannibals. I kid u not. They were not known as allotmenteers this tribe...

[Aunt Sally]

Note to self:

Stop eating people !

[Flying Cyril]

There was a disease called Kuru, like vCJD that affected headunter cannibals. I kid u not. They were not known as allotmenteers this tribe...

They didn't like veg with their meat then ??
"Flying" Cyril.

[jackiestagg]

old joke;
First Cow; Aren't you worried about Mad Cow Disease?
Second Cow; Why should I be worried? I'm a chicken.

Perhaps these scaremongers got the joke confused...