Arizona Chickens

[starri33]

Does anyone know what the quarantine area is for newcastles disease, I just had someone tell me that they are 2.7 miles away from me over someone smuggling frigging chickens back in from CA. If they find disease in their chickens, what are the odds, I'm going to have to kill mine?

 

[igorsMistress]

Does anyone know what the quarantine area is for newcastles disease, I just had someone tell me that they are 2.7 miles away from me over someone smuggling frigging chickens back in from CA. If they find disease in their chickens, what are the odds, I'm going to have to kill mine?

Oh crap, really? Was the person reported to authorities?

 

[igorsMistress]

@starri33 I'm at lunch looking for info for you.

Riverside and LA and San Bernardino counties.

ETA duh, I forgot it's spread by direct contact. Your risk will come from wild birds being in contact with sick birds, then spreading to your yard.

 

[starri33]

Oh crap, really? Was the person reported to authorities?

Yeah, a guy warned the moron before he even went over the border and when the A**hole said he didn't care it was worth the risk, he got turned into the State people.. I will destroy my flock if I have too, just to try and protect others, but I want this A**hole hung by his tender bits.. I live in a very low income part of the county.. some people out here are living on less than 800.00 a month, keeping chickens are part of their food budget and this B**tard saw nothing wrong with endangering others.

 

[cactusrota]

Yeah, a guy warned the moron before he even went over the border and when the A**hole said he didn't care it was worth the risk, he got turned into the State people.. I will destroy my flock if I have too, just to try and protect others, but I want this A**hole hung by his tender bits.. I live in a very low income part of the county.. some people out here are living on less than 800.00 a month, keeping chickens are part of their food budget and this B**tard saw nothing wrong with endangering others.

Practice very tight biosecurity. It helps your case in getting them to be lenient. And talk to everyone around about doing the same. That means no free ranging, a tub with bleach water or other stong disinfectant to step in going out the the chickens and back in. Not letting anyone near your birds but you... etc... That's about the best thing you can do really.

 

[cactusrota]

Here's something I cross posted on facebook a couple weeks ago. I later found out that the "10 bird" policy is not law, it's just what they're doing.....


This is by a racing pigeon keeper in the quarantine area in California. He's encouraging people to copy and share, and I got it from a falconry group, and falconers are very touchy about unwarranted search and seizure as G&F has a habit of it for them in some states. I don't know if the 10 bird limit is a Cali thing or a Federal thing, maybe someone else knows? If it's federal than it applies to us in AZ, too.

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Protecting your birds.

It has come to my attention that Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles are Mandatory Kill Zones for Commercial Chickens farms. Ten Chickens or more is considered a commercial farm. The Chickens in your area have a big impact on all of the other birds in that area. So the reason for this message is to educate everyone on how we can have an impact on trying to protect our birds and all of the other neighborhood birds in our area.

1) Go to the Magnolia Bird Farm and see how Frank has set up his biosecurity system. He is in the Quarantine area and still selling birds. They are closed Sunday and Monday but will be open tomorrow.
2) Go to the Dollar Store and buy a Cat Litter Box. Also purchase a 12"x12" piece of fake grass.
3) Go online to Amazon and purchase Virkom S. It's the product recommended by the State to be strong enough to kill the virus.
4) You take the cat litter box, and place the fake grass in it. You mix up some Virkom S solution and put it in the cat litter box. You have just made a Foot bath. You keep it by the entrance to your back yard. You also keep a beach towel out there. You can buy the beach towels from the Salvation Army at twenty-five cents each.
5) Every time anyone enters you back yard they have to wash their shoes and dry them. After using the towel, you throw it away. Do not try to wash it.
6) You also purchase a sprayer. You put the Virkom S solution in it. You keep it by the foot bath.
7) No one enters your property without using your biosecurity system-The Foot Bath going in and out.
8) No one is allowed in your cages or aviaries. They can look through the wire. No one handles your birds.
9) If you have chickens, you cut their numbers down to nine or less. At least that way you don't loss them all. After the quarantine is lifted then you can raise more.
10) Worst case scenario they show up at your door and want to euthanize all of your birds. They come with a warrant. Every warrant in small print on the bottom says that you have the right to appeal. You do not sign anything giving them the right to euthanize your birds. Don't sign your rights away.
11) Next you tell them that you'll let them on your property under theses conditions.
They can test one bird. It will be killed and they will open it up and look at it's liver. You have to watch. If the liver has grey spots, then it is positive for the New Castle Disease and they will euthanize all of your birds. If the liver is clean and normal, it is negative for the disease. Then tell them to leave and never come back. Those are your rules. Those are your rights.
12) When they leave you take your sprayer and spray all of their tires on their vehicle's tires. They also have to use the foot bath again. You insist and can't leave until they have done this and you sprayed their tires..
13) The reason this so important, is that your efforts at biosecurity and mine help protect all of the birds in our neighborhoods. I'm so sorry that I didn't post this earlier. But I just learned this information myself, yesterday.
14) Use this Biosecurity system as long as the quarantine is in force. And it always a good thing to do at all times.
15) Keep your cages ,Aviaries, and lofts clean. They're looking for green droppings, Twisted heads, Eye sores, and birds spinning in circles. Eliminate anything that is questionable.
16) Important point, Anyone who calls in with a report of sick birds will be giving a death sentence to all of the birds in that area. Sick Or Not. Work with me and lets help clean up a bad virus. But also help me protect all of the birds that are not sick and do not deserve to be killed.

 

[igorsMistress]

Yeah, a guy warned the moron before he even went over the border and when the A**hole said he didn't care it was worth the risk, he got turned into the State people.. I will destroy my flock if I have too, just to try and protect others, but I want this A**hole hung by his tender bits.. I live in a very low income part of the county.. some people out here are living on less than 800.00 a month, keeping chickens are part of their food budget and this B**tard saw nothing wrong with endangering others.

I'm so happy that he was turned in! I know people who depend on their chickens to eat every day too. Not cool that their family could go hungry because of an asshat like that!

 

[starri33]

I'm so happy that he was turned in! I know people who depend on their chickens to eat every day too. Not cool that their family could go hungry because of an asshat like that!

Yeah, I dislike people mainly, but it's not so much the people but what they do to others.. I'm hoping that it turns out that there isn't any disease but I do believe they shouldn't have chickens. I've got no use for those kinds of people who think of no one but themselves

 

[City farm]

You can’t see them but they are there. These cute little “girls” come into to our duck & chicken run for food, but I also see them eating tons of bugs in the Paloverde tree..Got this information from the Tucson Audubon..
esser Goldfinch

There is nothing lesser about the sweet tune or striking and colorful wing patterns of a Lesser Goldfinch. These small finches, of the family Fringillidae, are a charm to find flocking in your backyard or local park.

Stephen H. Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains in 1819–20 collected the first known specimen of this species on the banks of the Arkansas River between Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado. The Lesser Goldfinch name became official on the 5th edition of the AOU Check-List.

Did you know that the Lesser Goldfinch is an accomplished mimic? It is surpassed in North America in the number of species it can mimic in one song only by Lawrence’s Goldfinch. While this bird is the smallest of the American goldfinches, to sit and watch a treasury of Lesser Goldfinch congregate, communicate, and consume from feeders or flowers, is a much greater experience for any lover of birds than the name implies.

To enjoy Lesser Goldfinch in your urban yard, try planting seed bearing flowers or bushes (such as sunflowers, Desert Marigold or Clevlandii sage). Or, put up a nyjer feeder and water feature, and then enjoy the sights and sounds of this beautiful bird.
-Sara Pike, Operations Manager

 

[starri33]

are any of you near this? https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2019/04/08/arizona-chicken-flock-disease/