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  1. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    A very late reaction to a question. This person hasn’t been around in 2025. But bc messages are read by others too I want to make clear that using bleach on soil is not okay. Just take away the poop and make a drainage. Bird flu vanishes in the spring when temps get higher in the sun 🌞 . Its...
  2. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Sorry for your losses. How many died en how many survived? . Here you could get a huge fine not reporting suspicion of bord flu. If one reports suspicion of bird flu, the authorities come to kill (gas) your flock. Afterwards they check if it was the bird flu. The normal vets have no permission...
  3. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Mostly farmers get it, has not much to do with hygiene. More with contact with contaminated birds like with getting Covid and flu from other humans. Predators and rats get it from eating raw contaminated meat.
  4. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Not just Americans. All over the world we have problems with the effects of extreme industrialising. Nog only in keeping too much animals in factory farms. Also with growing crops (for feed) on a large scale. These farmers are poisoning our food and our land with insecticides and herbicides...
  5. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    I changed my vote to nothing. We have this birdflu continuous where I live for 16 months now and it spread to all kind of wild birds. The hpai isn’t going away anymore, just like Covid. I rather take the risk of a contaminated flock than confining my chickens for the rest of their lives. Only...
  6. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Its been s whole year now that hobby keepers are obliged to lock the chickens up in a run. But I stopped doing anything special this summer bc I dont want to lock the chickens in the run 24*7. Sparrows and other small songbirds come into the run anyway. The hpai / avian is causing deaths...
  7. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    The bird flu didn’t disappear whole summer. And now our government has sharpened the rules again. 2 major events happened on the 4th of October: A chicken meat factory farm with over 100,000 chicks was infected. And a worker in a chicken farm in Spain got sick with HPAI (contagious bird...
  8. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    I think oregano and many other herbs are great for the health of chickens. But I think eating is just as good. And adding honey? :idunno
  9. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    The chicken industry , with chickens living under unnatural circumstances, is the cause of this AI problem according to Wageningen university. Virussen can mutate easily into new , and more deadly AI viruses in these factory farms. At the moment the outbreaks in farms in The Netherlands are...
  10. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    I’m not telling you what to do. Just making a point on the bad that is going on in industrial farming . Sorry to hear you have a health problem.
  11. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    There is something very strange going on if eggs and chicken leg quarters -- which are cheaper per lb than vegetables. Did you ever wonder how it is possible that chickens who eat veggies are les expensive than the veggies they eat? Eating beans and such for proteins is way less expensive ...
  12. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Here in the Netherlands the DA (Food Authorities) cull all the livestock within a day after they tested positive on Ai. They are not waiting 5 days because they are afraid of spreading. I live in a chicken farming area too. Near to where a lot of good laying breeds like Barnevelders are...
  13. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    There are many different types of Avian Influenza. And even within one kind, like the HPAI , H5N1 there are many varieties. The virus mutates from year to year, or even faster, just like the human flu and Corona. Mortality in earlier HPAI was extremely high and only affected poultry. This...
  14. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    Maybe this is correct for farms. Hobby keepers often have less death. This is contagious AI came to N America from Europe or Asia because of a strong wind . It made travel birds taking another route as they do usually. For 20 years it came and went in Europe. But the last 4 years it returned...
  15. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    You don’t just loose a few birds if you get AI into youre flock. But many birds. I don’t know how you’re government deals with AI. But here people with poultry are obliged to inform a governmental institution (national food and consumer products authority) if you have several certain death or a...
  16. BDutch

    Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

    In my country the Avian Influenza is returning every winter for the past couple of years. Our government forbids free ranging every winter til halfway spring. For the hobbyists there are not so much rules as for the the farmers because they don’t contribute much to the spreading. The chicken...
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