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Got any pictures. I love growing chillies and would take some seeds.....

56 minutes ago, peterrabbit said:

The main cause of this is swine flu in China!

Thai exports of chicken to China have increased by 700% in the last year.

No industry can cope with such a dramatic change without problems.

Net result of such a sudden increase in demand is a drop in quality in favour of volume production. 

Don't expect much to change until China's pig production returns to normal.

 

I (er, no, my wife) runs a commercial broiler farm. 5 grow-outs per year, 20,000 birds per grow-out. We can't suddenly squeeze in another 10,000 birds into the shed each time and we can't grow them any quicker. The net result of the swine 'flu problem in China is an increase in pork and chicken prices worldwide - look up pork prices in the UK increasing due to increased exports to China.

The reason for the OP's experience I think (and I can't be sure) is 'woody breast' affecting the chickens at the farm and the processors are allowing it through to the shops and consumer. The OP (OK, his wife) should point out the problem at the store. Probably won't do any good.

Like I said at the start, soak overnight in brine.

On 11/9/2019 at 11:19 AM, rkidlad said:

Not sure about the TM6, but I predicted they’d let the TM30 disappear quietly and pretend it never happened

21 hours ago, NanLaew said:

Meanwhile in Chiang Mai, people who went out for dinner and a drink over the weekend will still need to report to immigration on Mon/Tue that they've got back home.

I'm simply sharing my last experience at my local I/O. I specifically asked about completing a TM30 on my return home if I stayed out of province overnight and the hotel had completed a TM30 when I arrived.

I'm not making any predictions on the actions of I/Os. Everyone's experience (such as yours) maybe different and only time will tell what Immigration rules will appear in the future. But thanks for sharing.

You keeping it here or cruising? Keeping a boat here can be a minefield of regs but I suppose you've done your homework on this.  I know cruisers visiting on a visa have been shocked to find they have to check-in and out of each province they visit, not just a Thailand country check-in/out like the rest of the world. B2,000 fine.

PSS have a boatyard near Phuket if you get a fixer-upper - lookup Follow the Boat on YouTube - they were there for a year but apparently the yard manager has left............ and it's not as cheap here now as it was, haul-out and yard rent nearly as much as prices in the west.

$100,000 is really cheap for a boat to 40ft. They are out there but I doubt there's much cheap around here, Langkawi. You'd do better in Europe, USA. Watch out and make sure anything you buy is tax (i.e. VAT) paid, otherwise you are looking at another 20% on top. I looked at an Amel Super Maramu 53ft in Aus for around $200K - bargin, new rig, sails, batteries, radar but it went before I could get the cash together. A fixer-upper maybe cheap to buy but will cost a small fortune to repair and re-fit. Some other guys on YouTube bought a hurricane-damaged cat but that was still around $100K and a year later they're still repairing it.

Good luck anyway mate, as a ex-Merchant Seaman I'd love to get back on the water.

19 minutes ago, ratcatcher said:

That would make them.......

LOL

@Yinn nice topic, maybe a mod could move it to the organic section?

4 minutes ago, neeray said:

By the heading Yinn, I thought you had worms (in your body).

Yesterday, there was a post about hemorrhoids. So worms seemed akin to that.

Glad to hear that you are okay.

You could be onto something here. Train the worms to eat hemorrhoids?.........

10 hours ago, Yinn said:

Same. Nearly.

 

mai ow ka.

 

I more polite my cat

Hey Yinn I didn't know you had a sense of humour ????

20 minutes ago, albertik said:

I really cannot tolerate when they leap out of the toaster. Other than that I tolerate them;  as was said they do terminate a lot of insects.   

LOL we have a jinjok toaster, he has the sense to get out before it gets too hot.

14 minutes ago, Yinn said:

This good thred to learn.

 

if not like jingjok in the house, WayneJ the OP show the good way.

 

fix the problem, not cruel.

 

Thankyou WayneJ

 

PS you must check everyday, or the jingjok will die. 

 

Live and let live.

You're Thai - I though you'd have all the answers already to educate us farangs.

3 minutes ago, fruitman said:

Last year i suddenly saw a rat running through the livingroom. It went into the kitchen where it was hiding. It was late and i wanted to sleep so i closed the kitchendoor with metal screens against mozzies and thought i'll deal with you tomorrow.

 

The rat had come through the drain in the shower because the lid was off...i put the lid back on it and went to sleep.

 

Next day there was a hole in the metal screen of the kitchendoor, the lid of the drain in the shower was out again! and there was poop of it everywhere in the bathroom.

 

I was amazed that it could make a hole in the metal screen, go back to the showerdrain and even open the lid of it to go back where it came from.....now we never leave the drains open anymore.

Wildlife here is great, it's not the first time I've found a small snake in our bedroom - comes in when we leave dried washing folded in the basket on the verandah for a while or the cleaner leaves the window (and screen) open - if she does that again she's sacked.

1 minute ago, Lacessit said:

I would much rather have jinjoks around than mosquitoes. Jinjoks don't carry dengue fever.

Although I was a bit teed off when a jinjok got itself jammed in the aircon, and the vent would not open.

Has anyone noticed the gecko sound is very similar to F##k you, or is that just my imagination?

Nah, it's just you. Now the  'watchadoin' birds..................

Just now, PatOngo said:

And they kee everywhere!

Yeah, but its not like dog kee on the street. Maybe the OP would like a sticky trap for soi dogs?

2 minutes ago, Yinn said:

This good thred to learn.

 

if not like jingjok in the house, WayneJ the OP show the good way.

 

fix the problem, not cruel.

 

Thankyou WayneJ

 

PS you must check everyday, or the jingjok will die. 

 

Live and let live.

He won't, he'll just wait till the bottle gets full of jinjoks and then post on TV asking how to get rid of bottles of honey filled with dead jinjoks.

1 minute ago, Yinn said:

 

 

 

 

Kill for food, kill if animal attack you. 

This way is cruel.

You can try to free it with vegetable oil but it'll die anyway, those sticky traps are poisionous. We use poision bait for rats. Trouble is they stink to high heaven when they die in the roof space. I have to send the wife up to fetch it out - note: the suspended ceiling won't take my weight LOL

4 minutes ago, cyril sneer said:

Sharia Law soon to be enforced

Where? Thailand? It'll never happen.