A constituent of mine was very surprised to learn a little while ago that chicken droppings were incorporated in a compound feed which he was buying from his poulterer.
The disease can be carried on the feathers, and when the poulterer plucks the bird and throws the feathers away the disease can be carried wherever the feathers go.
Further, the period when ducks can be exposed for sale is shortened by a fortnight, which is agreed with the poulterers and is therefore satisfactory to everyone.
It may still be hanging up in the butcher's or the poulterer's shopwindow, and may even have their name on it, and the children may come in and inspect it.
So they were bought off, and no further noise came from them, but only from the small, unorganised fishmongers and poulterers and butchers who were going to suffer.
I took the trouble to get the receipt from the poulterer to which the hares were sold afterwards and in fact they were not torn to pieces.
In the case of a fowl, if a housewife orders it for delivery later, the poulterer must weigh it before it is drawn, record that weight and charge accordingly.
If in truth this arrangement, by which poulterers' shops are stacked with these eggs in the spring, does not interfere with the plover, why have these birds disappeared?
