Diseased wild birds

[Chad the Chicken Man]

yeah i hope so too
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Yeah.. change clothes and wash hands good before messing with your chickens...
hope its not something bad going around...

 

[redhen]

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Yeah.. change clothes and wash hands good before messing with your chickens...
hope its not something bad going around...

i edited my post..i forgot to add "hope its NOT something bad going around..." oops.... my bad..

 

[aveca]

You should report this to local ag office and ask where your local agency who tests these birds for free for public safety service..In our case cornell university tests and reports to CDC id there is an outbreak of west nile ect...we had a rash of birds die at our barn several years ago.. would walk in the barn and you would find a few dead every other day..It was West nile virus...They had us collect with gloves a bird or 2 in doulble ziploc back sanitize the outside of bag with a clorox solution and put inside 2nd bag and put in a freezer til we could get it to them.. Your local police should have those numbers as well//..They could have gotten into some kind of poison , but again public safety the canarey in the coal mine, if there is poison laying around somewhere little kids can get in it. The tests can tell for sure what is going on...you might even be seeing the beginning of a bad mereks outbreak year

 

[Chad the Chicken Man]

is it not uncommon just birds to just dies off in the winter??? i always change and clean bird feeders.. its just so strange..

 

[redhen]

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2 right in a row like that is very odd.... i'd say something is going on. Either bad feed or a disease...

 

[dacjohns]

Two things.

1. Although your intentions are good what you are doing might be illegal unless you are licensed as a wildlife rehabilitater.

2. It is against the forum rules to bump.

 

[babsbag]

Out here in California there are agencies that want to know when we find dead birds, or sick ones. They like to keep tabs on things like West Nile and Newcastle. To find 2 in 2 days seems a little odd to me, especially with the symptoms you mention. I would certainly call a wildlife center or a vet and find out if someone would like to know about this. They may even want them, they do here.

It is possible that someone nearby is feeding them and not keeping their feeders clean. It seems like the wrong time of year for west nile, unless it is a slow death in birds and the contracted it last summer.

I would have done the same thing you did. I can't let anything die...not even baby strawberry plants.

Sorry that it didn't have a better ending.

 

[mistyfeather]

im sorry it didnt end better i helped many animals over the years, all you have to now is let the wildlife controll know they will test to find out what was wrong and they will let you know , but if you practised good clenliness around the birds you shouldnt have a problem as those birds did not drink or feed in you chickend food or water. just lysol every thing good and you should be fine.

 

[mistyfeather]

we had a whole flock of geese die in a day once here

it was very sad . they found that some ones car had leaked antifreeze in the parkinglot at a park . there was a small pond there were the geese would hang out over the winter. there was over 50 birds that died. people were panicking about it being a disease . i figured it was most likely coused by antifreeze as it hapened in january.