Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[JaeG]

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/20/21179040/coronavirus-us-italy-not-overreacting
“You are always behind where you think you are”

In a press conference on March 16, the National Institutes of Health’s Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has played a major role in leading the US response, explained to Americans why the strong measures the government was taking were not an overreaction.


“Some will look and say, well, maybe we’ve gone a little bit too far,” he said. “The thing that I want to reemphasize, and I’ll say it over and over again, when you’re dealing with an emerging infectious diseases outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are if you think that today reflects where you really are.”

 

[ChickenLeg]

What scientist? I have never heard of this before. I do not think it is a real thing. Antibiotics, yes, but I think the person you got your information from was lying to you.

Patricia Wakenell, its in her book Management and Medicine of Backyard Poultry. She helped stop the 2015 AI outbreak, 50 years of specialization in avian diseases. It might not be a real thing, but i trust her guidance when it comes to poultry diseases over anyone on this site.

 

[JaeG]

I wish I had a pet cow

Also that initially autocorrected to “better eat” cow instead of pet cow! What!?

You can share mine! Two of them are my babies and I love them so much. They love pats and cuddles. They are my future house cows (so nobody is eating them!).

Maisy

Merry

 

[ShrekDawg]

Patricia Wakenell, its in her book Management and Medicine of Backyard Poultry. She helped stop the 2015 AI outbreak, 50 years of specialization in avian diseases. It might not be a real thing, but i trust her guidance when it comes to poultry diseases over anyone on this site.

Huh, well it sounds fascinating! And possibly promising coming from an actual scientist instead of some blogger or something. Although I still have a hard time believing that milk and heat alone would actually do anything for a virus but maybe there is something to it. I have never personally heard of it. And I don’t hear my coops anyway so that part is out for me. But that said, they have said that animals can’t get sick from it like us. Do you have any links or anything specific about this milk thing? I would like to read more. I doubt I would ever actually use it myself but it does sound interesting. I did find this article on its use for sterilizing greenhouse equipment.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/can_a...plants_be_effective_in_reducing_virus_transmi
ETA: all that said, I would not rely on one source as my sole source of information. I prefer to read/watch a lot of different things and come to my own conclusions. I think that is the best way as no one person will be 100% right about everything. And there really isn’t a “right” way with animals anyway.

 

[ShrekDawg]

You can share mine! Two of them are my babies and I love them so much. They love pats and cuddles. They are my future house cows (so nobody is eating them!).
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Merry

Awwww they are so adorable!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

On another note...I've been doing BYC searches to learn about first time incubation hatching and can't seem to find one good thread or article so far. I'm going cross eyed from searching.

Anyone have a suggestion for a good incubator/hatching 101 for dummies?

......asking for a friend.

You'll find any bit of information needed in the following thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...thread-w-sally-sunshine-shipped-eggs.1137467/

Theres also what we call grow out pens for single younger birds that's cheap and easy

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You must not have weasels or mink.

A neck gaiter, and no it wouldn't.

My son is wearing a gaiter everywhere he goes.

Me too me too! My new bator is on the way and I know almost nothing

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...thread-w-sally-sunshine-shipped-eggs.1137467/

Covid19 is now in my town. No one is allowed on my property i have signs posted, i cant risk it mutating and my chickens catching this nasty virus. Stand strong everyone and quarantine your flock from outisiders, no telling how devistating a virus this harmful will be if it mutates to group 3 coronavirus and starts spreading in our poultry... again turn up temps in your chicken houses and put 1/2 strength powdered milk in waterers to treat a corona outbreak in your flocks

I've kept a closed flock for years and don't allow visitors who have poultry or have been on a property with chickens.
It is very unlikely Covid-19 will infect chickens.

I have a cousin who is a charge nurse at a medium sized hospital in Portland, OR. At the beginning of last week they had zero cases of COVID19. The next day they had two. Overnight 20 new cases were admitted. Two of those are in critical condition and are on ventilators. There were even some patients that were young enough to be put in the pediatric ward. I haven't talked to her since. Scared to.

She is probably too busy to talk now.

 

[ChickenLeg]

Huh, well it sounds fascinating! And possibly promising coming from an actual scientist instead of some blogger or something. Although I still have a hard time believing that milk and heat alone would actually do anything for a virus but maybe there is something to it. I have never personally heard of it. And I don’t hear my coops anyway so that part is out for me. But that said, they have said that animals can’t get sick from it like us. Do you have any links or anything specific about this milk thing? I would like to read more. I doubt I would ever actually use it myself but it does sound interesting. I did find this article on its use for sterilizing greenhouse equipment.

https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/can_a...plants_be_effective_in_reducing_virus_transmi
ETA: all that said, I would not rely on one source as my sole source of information. I prefer to read/watch a lot of different things and come to my own conclusions. I think that is the best way as no one person will be 100% right about everything. And there really isn’t a “right” way with animals anyway.

Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery edited by Brian Speer. Its in the chapter by Patricia Wakenell: Management and Medicine of Backyard Poultry, subsection Viral Diseases. Patricia and Brian are highly respected when it comes to treating and diagnosing diseases in birds. I might not have the time to experiment if an coronavirus outbreak occurs in my flock, so ima trust their expertise.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Current Therapy in Avian Medicine and Surgery edited by Brian Speer. Its in the chapter by Patricia Wakenell: Management and Medicine of Backyard Poultry, subsection Viral Diseases. Patricia and Brian are highly respected when it comes to treating and diagnosing diseases in birds. I might not have the time to experiment if an coronavirus outbreak occurs in my flock, so ima trust their expertise.

Thanks! And whatever works for you!

 

[Beer can]

Oneonta? Really? I was born there in Fox Hospital.

WOW! Small world. Our first two in Sidney, then they closed, next in Fox Oneonta, last two in Binghamton.
Was way down in Disney Fl prob four yrs ago DW was talking to a woman in a store there asked where in NY we were from, kinda hard to explain small town have a blinking red light and a gas station, between Oneonta and Binghamton if you heard of them... She says oh yeah, I'm from Franklin...well your pretty much over the hill from us small world

 

[FortCluck]

what if you don’t have a pet cow!?

You eat your Cockerels