Ducks with chickens

[dreamcaughtcoop]

So far nothing in NC. but bio security is a priority even with out the AI scare. Don't go anywhere especially where there is livestock poultry and go around your flock before you have removed all clothing and shoes bathed and washed your hair, disinfect even your tires on your car if you have. I carried a bottle of Oxine and water when I cared of a persons flock a couple summers ago and sprayed my shoes and tires before I left their property. If anyone has poultry they have to disinfect their shoes before coming on your property and no one with poultry is allowed inside where your poultry is kept. It all sounds harsh but this should even be in place if AI wasn't a threat. I sure hope this can be contained but it doesn't look like they are getting a handle on it very well. I do feed the wild birds if I didn't they would be in my flocks feeders so I keep out feeders for them and up off the ground where my flock cannot eat out of them. Mostly we have local birds not in a fly way thankfully.

Yes all of the showing grounds around my state wont let any birds on the property anymore, I might be planning on moving my chickens on our back screened porch because we live in the woods with lots of wild birds. Currently they have a small coop which we might just put on the porch and they will live there. No one living next to us or around us owns any chickens or other types of birds. And my friends who own chickens are also very worried about it and will be very cautions around any birds.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That's about all we can do. My flock still forages all over our property and the wild birds still come around not much we can do about that. But I think we're missing the issue here the big factory farms is where most of the problems have been. Those keeping back yard flocks have been hit because of them if they are in the radius of where AI breaks out.There is a thread about it on BYC I'll see if I can find it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/944777/avian-flu-washington-state

https://www.grain.org/article/entri...ndustry-s-central-role-in-the-bird-flu-crisis