So my husband is moving me and the chickens to his hometown Laporte MN. I am from Indiana and have never left the state except for vacations. So what should I know? Are the chickens and myself going to be miserable lol in the cold?
It's at least 17 hour drive in summer I have 45 chikens and a trailer it's black and looks a bit like this https://www.trailersuperstore.com/shop/homesteader-4-x-6-enclosed-trailer/
We are going to cut ventilation into the trailer and put in crank up windows. I'm going to use wire rabbit cages...
H5n1 has been found in a wild duck. A different virus t then the one in Asia
http://www.theolympian.com/2015/01/23/3541546_third-strain-of-bird-flu-confirmed.html?&rh=1
Tests confirmed the H5N1 strain in a green-winged teal killed by a hunter near Sumas, said Hector Castro, a spokesman for the...
With H5n1 being found in Washington state everyone should comply not doing so puts your own famioy at risk
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra0707279
Clusters of human influenza A (H5N1) illness with at least two epidemiologically linked cases have been identified in 10 countries and...
As far as I can find there are no articals to what happens if you don't follow quarantines. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I would hope everyone would follow the rules and comply. It's best that that we as a group contain it now then let it get to panadimc levels here in the states.
http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2015/01/usda-confirms-high-path-h5n1-washington-state
H5N1 has been found
http://www.flu.gov/about_the_flu/h5n1/
http://hub.hku.hk/bitstream/10722/45195/1/122035.pdf?origin=publication_detail
Niman, I have been following your site and another flu site for years. And have been worried about avaIn flu and my poultry. We covered the top of a little over half acre for our 26 hens but small sonG birds and other birds still manage to get into the run. Are the smaller wild birds carriers...
I actually got the eggs from a feed store. I got in the car and picked up the eggs got home and checked the air sack on my brinsea candler and I don't see a egg sack in any of them. Should I?