PSA: chicken sales

[jaxyaks]

Hopefully the backyard flock owners will put a pause on transferring birds from place to place until the GDOA can get a handle on it.

But I fear that is not going to be the case based on the number of backyard hobbyists that don't understand their part in limiting the spread of a disease. But one can hope!

 

[ARCman47]

You cram a bunch of animals into confinement, some get sick, they are all give a broad spectrum antibiotic and this cycle continues thousands of times for decades. That’s how you create rest bacteria and viruses. If that sounds like the rant of a day drinker, you may want to look into the mirror.

There is no "antibiotics" for Avian Flu. Typically if a chicken has some issue like staph infections or something that can be treated with something. There are probably 2 or 3 main medications that are used.

 

[wolfmanrogers]

There is no "antibiotics" for Avian Flu. Typically if a chicken has some issue like staph infections or something that can be treated with something. There are probably 2 or 3 main medications that are used.

I’m very familiar with avian flu and the LA antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections.

Large scale confinement is a Petri dish for viruses or bacterial transmission. The poultry industry has been willing to take a small financial loss, and sacrifice the well being of the animals in confinement while ignoring the long term eventualities of their “animal husbandry “ practices. Those are just facts.

 

[ARCman47]

Hopefully the backyard flock owners will put a pause on transferring birds from place to place until the GDOA can get a handle on it.

But I fear that is not going to be the case based on the number of backyard hobbyists that don't understand their part in limiting the spread of a disease. But one can hope!

Yeah, that's my thing. I know people that understand the issues about having backyard flocks and there are so many that don't. Alot of the Mexicans have yard birds. Few years ago something had came through, they found out someone's backyard birds all had it and died, but they buried them and didn't report it to the state lab

 

[jaxyaks]

It has likely been an issue longer than they think, a lot of small flock owners don't make use of UGA by getting a necropsy on chickens that die of undetermined causes.

When I raised them, if I lost one and could not determine why, off that bird went. Fortunately that did not happen very often.

 

[ARCman47]

It has likely been an issue longer than they think, a lot of small flock owners don't make use of UGA by getting a necropsy on chickens that die of undetermined causes.

When I raised them, if I lost one and could not determine why, off that bird went. Fortunately that did not happen very often.

That's for sure! I wouldn't ever want someone to not have their right to have backyards but at the same time, be careful if they're in the vicinity of someone who grows for a living. They have alot on the line

 

[ARCman47]

I’m very familiar with avian flu and the LA antibiotics used to treat bacterial infections.

Large scale confinement is a Petri dish for viruses or bacterial transmission. The poultry industry has been willing to take a small financial loss, and sacrifice the well being of the animals in confinement while ignoring the long term eventualities of their “animal husbandry “ practices. Those are just facts.

I agree there are some in the industry that aren't on the up and up. Which, animal welfare is serious but there are some companies that don't abide by and follow the rules

 

[GodBlessTheUSA]

It's the H5N1 variant and it's from.......

(you already know)


CHINA!

(The US has a "European" strain, i.e. a mutated version of the virus first documented in China)

It can recombine with human influenza virus strains and get into people as well.

 

[BEREZKA]

That's for sure! I wouldn't ever want someone to not have their right to have backyards but at the same time, be careful if they're in the vicinity of someone who grows for a living. They have alot on the line

Biosecurity is huge. We had immigrant neighbors who's birds had micoplasma and gapeworm. It killed 4/10 birds we had despite treatment.

 

[ARCman47]

Biosecurity is huge. We had immigrant neighbors who's birds had micoplasma and gapeworm. It killed 4/10 birds we had despite treatment.

That it is! That's a big issue facing these companies is they have alot of foreign growers, mostly Vietnamese and Burmese and some just don't get the imp of bio security until they're struck with a disease