1 Million Chickens Killed...

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Well I certainly dont want to KNOW it, and I certainly dont want my Birds to know what it is either... if you know what I am saying. Can we say BIOSECURITY!!!

 

[therealsilkiechick]

i don't understand why they didn't use biosecurity and vaccinate.

there is several vaccines available for it. also i saw something about burying the bodies, if they have ILT bodies r to be incinerated to control spread. what if it goes underground into a water supply?? it is a highly contagous live virus and can be airborn too. i thought i saw a reply something about can't infect wild birds that is the stupidest statement i've ever heard.

why can't people use their heads!

the lives of all these animals could have been saved
, all the problems, heart ache and loss of money all avoided had they just used their heads and vaccinated and used strict biosecurity measures.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

Well...

(A) it was a poultry production plant that was affected, so I'm sure they were using SOME kind of biosecurity.

and

(B) the Texas Animal Health Commission is the head honcho in the investigation, so I'm fairly certain that they will control the issue without posing any further danger to other flocks and the health of the public.

 

[Mahonri]

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This is truly sad.... and it makes us all hope that the bird flu doesn't ever mutate so that it can pass from bird to human to human.

 

[Poulets De Cajun]

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Why is it sad? Biosecurity is not 100% effective 100% of the time. Somethings just happen. Also, the outbreak wasn't Avain Influenza, it was something else.

 

[Mahonri]

That's a lot of life/birds.

It's sad that there wasn't sufficient biosecurity.

I know it's not related, but a virus, is a virus, if that can happen there, I understand why the CDC gets all excited about the bird flu.

 

[rufus]

I think in big commercial operations, there is a tendency to run ahead of the plague. They know that it is coming, and by the time it gets to their location most of their birds are already processed and in the freezer.

Millions of birds may have been sacrificed, but they didn't go to waste.

Rufus

 

[horsejody]

If you read the comments posted after the article, it sounds like some of the neighbors blame sanderson. I found this post particularly interesting:

Posted by: keith Location: hammond on Mar 22, 2009 at 07:09 AM
They built the new houses that got the illness on a spot were chickens were buried fromt he same illness a few years ago,they didnt have chickens from somewere else on there place they tried to get rid of there sick birds to the neighbors which broke there contract how do i know this well i was one that received birds from this grower my chickens checked out negative i have free range birds in a coupe 2 days later after he put them in my coupe my chickens started dying i have had these for over 3years with no problem or illness sanderson is trying to blaim the land owners around that have poultry for farm use although they are the ones that got it and spread it around it was on there feed trucks when they left the infected houses they now dissinfect everthing even school buses going down the road by them,TDAH came and destroyed my birds i had 9 egg layers and 2 Genees what a shame,the grower will probally losse his contract of this from what the investigators told me

If they did have diseased birds buried on a spot where they dug to put in new buildings, that is very poor biosecurity. The picture of the birds show them on a dirt floor so they may have been exposed that way. I would be pretty PO'd if sombody did something like this, got my birds slaughtered and then tried to blame me. I would be interested in knowing all of the details.