Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

Is this what the t-shirts look like????? Is this the logo on them?

 

[ozexpat]

Is this what the t-shirts look like????? Is this the logo on them?

yup they sat cocobeach poultry - we had to change name



and i still have to send some - sorry people - i got side tracked

 

[ramirezframing]

SLIGHTLY ENCOURAGING NEWS:


OIE: Only one Foster Farms house affected by avian influenza
1,200 turkeys are destroyed and other control measures have been implemented

Release Date: 2015-01-26

An outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza affected only one poultry house at a Foster Farms turkey operation in Stanislaus County, California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) reported. The presence of H5N8 avian influenza was confirmed at the Foster Farms turkey ranch on January 24, making it the first commercial poultry operation to be infected by the virus since it first entered the Pacific Flyway in late 2014.
According to OIE's report on the case, 145,000 birds were susceptible, with 4,500 deaths. An additional 1,200 turkeys were destroyed. Only one house of 9,000 birds was affected.
The property, which is in a remote location, has been quarantined, and movement control inside the United States has been implemented. The affected premises has been disinfected.
OIE believes the infection at the turkey farm is related to the recent avian influenza events in wild birds in the region. The virus was discovered at the Foster Farms facility as a result of increased biosecurity measures at all of Foster Farms’ East Coast facilities as avian influenza has spread through the Pacific Flyway.
Samples from the infected flock, which experienced increased mortality, were tested at the California Animal Health & Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS) and the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, confirmed the finding. Foster Farms has been working closely with APHIS and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) throughout the ordeal.
The cooperation of involved parties has drawn the praise of the National Turkey Federation (NTF). “USDA’s effective response to target avian influenza at a remote central California turkey ranch underscores why consumers can be secure in the fundamental safety of the food supply and continue to enjoy turkey,” said Lisa Wallenda Picard, NTF vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs.​

If only one house with 9,000 birds was affected and 4,500 died and they killed aonther 1,200 of the birds, what happened to the remaining 3,300 affected birds?

 

[ramirezframing]

Good god, rereading my above post, I realized I sound like a math teacher :/ .

 

[ozexpat]

Good god, rereading my above post, I realized I sound like a math teacher

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you did lol

 

[ozexpat]

With all this scare about Avian Influenza, I am attaching a PDF from the APA with state health officials and their contact info



cheers and may you never have to contact them

 

[Leftcoastnative]

I don't come out of lurkerland often - but that poster got me to gigglin' so hard I just had to let you know......

 

[ozexpat]

I don't come out of lurkerland often - but that poster got me to gigglin' so hard I just had to let you know......

whatever it takes to drag you out of the bushes

 

[Leftcoastnative]

I don't have anything to contribute, Oz. I'm an old geezer - the best I can do is all this vicariously. I enjoy this thread and EEBraggers thread and the "Broody Hen Hatch" (? ? I dunno, can't remember the name right now).
I did however, many decades ago drive what was called a "livehaul" truck. Three years goin' out into the countryside, at night, pickin up broilers, then hauling 'em back to the "processing" plant. Filthy job, but quite a bit of fun - lots of exercise - it's work loading 6,600 chickens on a truck five nights a week.
So I just read the thread from time to time....It sure beats the heck out of the "news" these days.

 

[ozexpat]

I don't have anything to contribute, Oz. I'm an old geezer - the best I can do is all this vicariously. I enjoy this thread and EEBraggers thread and the "Broody Hen Hatch" (? ? I dunno, can't remember the name right now).
I did however, many decades ago drive what was called a "livehaul" truck. Three years goin' out into the countryside, at night, pickin up broilers, then hauling 'em back to the "processing" plant. Filthy job, but quite a bit of fun - lots of exercise - it's work loading 6,600 chickens on a truck five nights a week.
So I just read the thread from time to time....It sure beats the heck out of the "news" these days.

maybe mrs oz can get the livehaul job

she wants to drive an 18 wheeler lol

and the chickens would be an added bonus

you should join us in the old folks home thread