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I've been watching this bird flu outbreak and it looks really scary for backyard chicken owners. Some of the agriculture associations and government officials are blaming backyard birds because they are more likely to have contact with wild birds and they are probably right. Some flock owners keep ducks with their chickens too and as a lot of wild ducks carry the less lethal version of the virus that is bad news because it is less lethal only to the wild ducks. Chickens have zero immunity to it and the virus appears to mutate rapidly.
I do a lot of work with my state legislature, mostly politically beating up the bad ones, and I know how this is going to end. You are going to see lobbyists from Tyson Foods and the other poultry giants starting legislation to crack down on backyard birds due to the health threat. These lobbyists already own most of the legislature anyway.
I am going to be putting together a state by state rundown on what states have experienced outbreaks in the past, what states are having current problems, and how they have dealt with backyard flocks when trying to eradicate the virus.
One thing for sure is that the days of allowing birds access to your chicken coop are gone. Reports are coming out of China that their bird flu has mutated and is crossing over to humans. Right now it is sick chicken to human contact that is spreading it or human contact with the droppings but once it mutates into a human to human form this will be a deadly pandemic. Few people realize that the famous Spanish Flu back around the turn of the century was a form of Avian Flu.
