Let’s Talk About Bird Flu

[No Coop No Problem]

Interesting though. If there's any weight to this, why aren't corporations using tea for their chickens?

The chicken industry was making record profits from the supposed bird flu pandemic

 

[tomo0003]

鶏肉業界は鳥インフルエンザのパンデミックで記録的な利益を上げていた

No, to put it simply, Catechin does not completely inactivate the virus.

 

[TOMTE]

The chicken industry was making record profits from the supposed bird flu pandemic

Forgot all about that!

 

[Goosebaby]

The chicken industry was making record profits from the supposed bird flu pandemic

There is a bird flu pandemic, hpai has been devastating wild and domestic flocks alike, but you can expect big corporations to take full advantage of it like with all things.

 

[2 Acres]

The chicken industry was making record profits from the supposed bird flu pandemic

Bingo!!!

 

[BDutch]

The chicken industry was making record profits from the supposed bird flu pandemic

The bird flu pandemic was real.
It disappeared mostly in spring, and will come back next autumn when there is less sunshine and temps drop in the night to almost freezing temps.

It comes and goes in my country the Netherlands) for many years now.

I know people who had a flock of BYC. Most of them dropped dead within a week bc of the contagious and deadly bird flu. Testing is obliged with suspicion of the bird flu. The rest of the flock was gassed. Every winter there are serious restrictions for poultry farmers to avoid spreading of HPAI.

Many commercial farmers had to give permission to the authorities to terminate their chickens and ducks. Their stables may not be filled for a certain period. They get paid by the government for commercial damage. Our egg prices went up too. But by far not as extreme as yours in the US.

If anyones sees a dead wild bird, it should be reported. The advice is: don’t touch it but give the location to the authorities to have it checked on bird flu.
Some months ago there were still dead affected wild birds (water fowl) in the north of my country where we have a lot of lakes.

The Netherlands exports a lot of bird meat and eggs. Mainly to other European countries and beyond too. Farmers who do not export their products can vaccinate their chickens now.

 

[Goosebaby]

The bird flu pandemic was real.
It disappeared mostly in spring, and will come back next autumn when there is less sunshine and temps drop in the night to almost freezing temps.

It comes and goes in my country the Netherlands) for many years now.

I know people who had a flock of BYC. Most of them dropped dead within a week bc of the contagious and deadly bird flu. Testing is obliged with suspicion of the bird flu. The rest of the flock was gassed. Every winter there are serious restrictions for poultry farmers to avoid spreading of HPAI.

Many commercial farmers had to give permission to the authorities to terminate their chickens and ducks. Their stables may not be filled for a certain period. They get paid by the government for commercial damage. Our egg prices went up too. But by far not as extreme as yours in the US.

If anyones sees a dead wild bird, it should be reported. The advice is: don’t touch it but give the location to the authorities to have it checked on bird flu.
Some months ago there were still dead affected wild birds (water fowl) in the north of my country where we have a lot of lakes.

The Netherlands exports a lot of bird meat and eggs. Mainly to other European countries and beyond too. Farmers who do not export their products can vaccinate their chickens now.

I live along the pacific flyway, it definitely is real sadly. I know people who have lost their flocks. It spread like wildfire through some of the waterfowl rescues in the valley.
I think people have a hard time believing it because it kills so quickly, in three days an entire flock can be gone when they seemed perfectly healthy just before, but that is just the nature of how an easily transmissible virus affects species with no ability to fight it.
Sometimes people think it’s ridiculous to cull an entire flock because only a few birds tested positive/died, but euthanasia is a mercy, the virus doesn’t spare chickens and many other species, they all die within a few days of exposure, there aren’t lucky individuals that survive and develop some natural immunity, and how they go is horrible.
Ducks on the other hand sometimes do survive, they do have a natural resistance, but that’s the reason they are the reservoir species of hpai, they can resist it to an extent and they’re carriers because of it.

Culling in my opinion no longer has clear reasons for its practice in birds that do survive however. If the bird is still shedding the virus then it’s an obvious risk still, it’s pointless keeping the bird alive when it will infect any new birds brought onto the premise. If the surviving bird(s) however are no longer shedding the virus then there isn’t a logical reason to cull. Hpai is now endemic in wild flocks pretty much everywhere so the risk of spreading the virus from a domestic bird is mute when it’s already present in wild flocks that at any time could spread it to domestic flocks. A bird that survived and isn’t spreading the virus poses no risk to the wild and domestic population.