What gets me is, we have all these rules and regs going on. then these TV programmes encourage to keep chickens so we can eat lovely fresh eggs, but no one comes along and says well, now you've got your hens, did you know that when it dies, you can't bury it as it isn't strictly a pet, and you can't put it in the bin as it could carry an awful diease and infect our lovely clean land fill site, but you can pay a man lots of money to come and take it away for you!!!!! :x :x
Also, when we clean out the chook sheds, most of the manure goes onto the compost heaps, but the other week, there was a lot of straw and shavings that was still very dry, so we decided to take it to landfill. We wanted to put it in the green bins, as it would help their compst a lot and the council composting is very hot and will turn it into manure very quickly.
What have you got in those bags said the man at the gate. straw and shavings from our chickens Brian said, can't go in the green waste, we aren't allowed animal by-products. So we took it round to landfill. What have you got in there?? another man said. Brian told him the same thing. Can't go in landfill, we are not licensed for animal by-products.
Brian said what do I do with it then? Our compost bins are full. Oh you can bring in a carrier bag full a week, and you can't put it in your own rubbish bin as they are not allowed to take it either. You have to make your own arrangements to dispose of it!!!
So we do, we have a lovely big fire each week, which with the shavings takes nearly a week to smoulder through, lovely and hot and whoops I dropped that dead chicken on the fire by mistake!!!!