Vet Joe Hollins Explains Egg Shortage Causes and Solutions
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www.sams.sh THE South Atlantic Media Services, Ltd. Vol. 10,SENTINEL Issue 06 - Price: £1 “serving St Helena and her community worldwide” Thursday 06 May 2021 Vet Joe Hollins explains egg shortage causes and solutions Anniversaries: Napoleon’s bicentenary, British colonisation SHG IT takes first company go-karting crown New Census results: Second highest aging pop. in the world? St Helena Airport welcomes MV Helena Voyage 41: another big group of young Charges to increase visitors £225/container 2 www.sams.sh Thursday 06 May 2021 | THE SENTINEL THE SENTINEL | Thursday 06 May 2021 www.sams.sh 3 OPINION YOUR LETTERS YOUR LETTERS Dear Editor far greater sympathy for their Introduction: 1 month’s quarantine) – but but Titan switched to a Boeing, SENTINEL hostile neighbour, Argentina, This is a brief summary of that it was also temporary. It is which can. However: Mark Mardell correctly points than for them. While Brexiteers the issues that have developed a projection of egg production o Most of the Titan flights leave out that Gibraltar was the only are still prepared to defend them recently in keeping the island versus egg consumption. The red just after midnight between British Overseas Territory to be COMMENT militarily, they have hit them stocked with egg laying pullets and green lines have been added to Sunday/Monday – Sunday is the part of the EU, but others are not Andrew Turner, SAMS economically. for local production of eggs. illustrate when the apparent glut one day of the week that there is unscathed by Brexit. But tempting as it is to mock Local production is desirable of eggs would become a shortage. no hatching of day-old chicks so With the anniversary of Napoleon https://www.theneweuropean. Gibraltar having a seat in the Bonaparte’s death on May 5, St Helena for multiple reasons, principal It cannot take into account other co.uk/brexit-news/europe-news/ House of Commons as a Brexit these flights were/are unusable. is once again commemorating the among them being: sources of eggs on island. It the-eu-and-gibraltar-7883484 brainchild, the first MP to call for o The more recent midweek French Emperor. • Import substitution – keeping But this year’s celebrations are In the Caribbean, Anguilla’s trade it in 1997 was Andrew MacKinlay, uses a conservative estimate of flights held promise until different. As this is the bicentenary, and social links to neighbouring as passionately pro-EU then as money on island (feed costs a consumption rate of 0.6 eggs it was discovered that hold events are taking place not only here half-French half-Dutch Saint he has been anti-Brexit since. aside); per capita of population. This is temperatures on the B-757 are but also in France and are being • Eggs are rich in important slightly above the UK (0.55 eggs/ streamed across the globe. Martin have come under threat, Besides, it might yet give the fixed at 15C. Consultation with And this year is also different because while St Helena and Tristan da Rock (if not the other ‘Last Pink nutrients – local production capita) but well below many other Boeing engineers confirmed this. of the shifting modern context. Cunha have lost access support Bits’!) a voice in the future UK- desirable for quality, adequate nations (USA 0.72, Japan 0.88). Lohmann Brown UK and the EU As Black Lives Matter and other social from the European Development EU Parliamentary Partnership quantity, and at an appropriate Without further importation of Association of Poultry Breeders equity movements have gained traction price, all to support regular day old chicks, the shortage of in recent years, historical figures and Fund. And the Falklands? Having Assembly. https://www. manual for Air Transport of Day- commemorations are being looked been excluded from the UK’s trade theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit- consumption as part of a healthy eggs was predicted to begin at Old Chicks established that the at in a new light. In France, this has deal with the EU, they face tariffs news/brexit-means-giving- diet; approximately November 2020. hold temperature required is 22C included an important change in the of up to 18% on their fisheries gibraltar-own-mp-27946 • Creating local income through This has been the case. -26C. celebrations of Napoleon’s legacy. exports. trading of eggs and their products On one hand, Napoleon was a figure 5. There are therefore currently who created modern France through Tragicomically, they now have Yours such as baked foods; Principal causes: no routes for the importation of his positive reformations of laws, to lobby MEPs from Spain, which, Ken Westmoreland • Welfare – imported eggs 1. A failure in imported feed day-old chicks. education and administration systems. while one of their main EU export 78 Eastgate Gardens are mainly from battery units supplies. Commercial egg layers But it’s no historical secret that markets, has historically had Taunton TA1 1RE considered illegal by UK Napoleon also reintroduced slavery to the are producing an egg a day Solutions (numerals relate to list French colonies. In 1802 he reintroduced standards. packed with nutrition. InadequatePage 1 of 3 above): slavery to Guadeloupe and decreed that Dear Editor at the top of town as well , but that feeding therefore results in the 1. Egg producers and suppliers slavery be maintained in Martinique, THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH was also a disaster area of broken Causes of current egg shortage: pullets losing condition and of feed need to establish a Tobago, Mauritius and La Réunion. Many “PLAYGROUND” (??) in glass and rusty fencing when I Shortage of egg laying pullets – causes and solutions slaves were also massacred by French See graphic. (Red line – daily going off lay. The failure of the robust ordering system for feed. forces under his reign. JAMESTOWN last looked some years ago, and egg consumption at 0.6Jonathan egg Hollinsprivate SVO sector to import adequate Producers must not assume that He also had an approach to women’s The passing of the much in more recent years there was a per capita per day (population feed caused a collapse in egg feed will be imported and then rights that was perhaps typical at the respected Duke of Edinburgh small play area with equipment 4,000). Green line – estimated production. attempt to purchase. Importers of time but seems less-than-enlightened reminded me of the area in for very young children, on the now. He believed that “In the East they Introduction:date when production falls below 2. Cost of feed. Some producers feed are wary of waste and loss. Jamestown which he dedicated as grass in the Mule Yard. consumption.) have more sense and judgment; there, This is a brief summary of the issues that have developedattempt recently to in keepingration the their island stockedpullets with to 2. Supplementation with kitchen women are pronounced to be the actual a Playground during his visit to There is no safe area in This graph was presented to save money. This in unworkable the island in 1957. Jamestown for children to play. egg laying pullets for local production of eggs. waste/garden waste can help to property of man; and so indeed they the committee in August 2019 in – see point above. are, nature has made them our slaves.” The “Duke of Edinburgh Can SHG please make safe Local production is desirable for multiple reasons, principal among them being: reduce costs. response to concern regarding Of course it isn’t just the Napoleonic Playground” is and has been playgrounds for children a Import substitution – keeping money on island3. (feed The costs pandemic. aside); The link to our 3. 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For THE current situation is largely due Daily egg production Amber Link with late culling at 30 available again until the SA link is instance, the two decrees under which CONSTITUENT to contributing factors outside months (est) re-established. Napoleon reintroduced slavery were 5. Await end of pandemic. for the first time put on display at a of SHG’s control, and options 3500 cultural centre in Paris. Dear Constituents, for addressing the local egg Locally, the only effort has so far Another round of Constituency production problems are not so 3000 Other solutions: been to seek funding to restore Toby’s meetings has concluded.