[SallyintNorth]

Just to warn you all there are bound to be Chinese lanterns let loose on Monday and the following week and weekend for the Chinese New Year.  (Year of the Dragon, since you asked  )

If your local *Watch folks are like ours, they will fail to remind people about the dangers to livestock 

We can't get all our cattle in, but I think I may bring Plenty (my little Jersey heifer) in for week or so ...

I've posted this in Cattle and Coffee Lounge (rather than every other livestock section!)

[Lesley Silvester]

I don't think I've ever seen Chinese New Year celebrated so we are probably safe here in Telford.

[Fleecewife]

I love dragons but I hate those lanterns for what they do to livestock and wildlife.  Never seen them round here, but there's always a first time 

[bazzais]

Someone last year lit some in our campsite - we were well annoyed but only gave advice to them as we cant supply endless signs and guidance.   Not only is it a danger if it catches fire or gets a problem and falls to the ground but we are right by the coast and on a headland.

The coastguard and the RNLI dont like being called out about 'flares' or 'sighting' from other people who also dont know what a Chinese lantern is.

They are so buetiful though - I would love to set one off - I can see the fascination.

What animal year is the next chinese year?

Baz

[SallyintNorth]

What animal year is the next chinese year?

(Year of the Dragon, since you asked  )

[plumseverywhere]

My new goat Puffins breeder had a goat kid die due to wire that had come from a lantern. The lantern must have landed in the field to be cut for hay and as the wire is so very thin it got baled up un noticed...until this tiny kid got it stuck in her throat and it ruptured an internal organ. she had to be euthanased and her twin was left distraught and lonely. The PM showed cause of death as a wire which was later matched to chinese lantern wire What a waste of a life 

A few weeks after we heard about this 3 lanterns flew past our bedroom window over our goats paddock. they make me mad

[SallyintNorth]

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2011/06/19/sky-lanterns/
Amazingly, even Defra think they shouldn't be launched.

I have heard - and seen - that you can get ones with a balsa-only frame, no wire - so why aren't they now banning the ones with a wire frame?? 

[Bert]

I don't like the lanterns or fireworks for that matter. always put the fear of god into domestic and wild animals. But I do Love a good Chinese take away.

[Lesley Silvester]

I don't like the lanterns or fireworks for that matter. always put the fear of god into domestic and wild animals. But I do Love a good Chinese take away.