LOS ANGELES county CA under bird quarantine :(

[Animalfisherwoman]

Yeah. She says she informed the state vet about testing and got an email from her saying that nothing was going to happen until that following Monday. Then on Friday, they killed her chickens.

The state's parameters are to kill chickens within a 3km radius. I'd like to see the numbers on the spread of VND over 200m let alone 3km before irrevocably seizing people's animals.

This isn't rabies. The state isn't cracking down on other animals with fatal communicable diseases. Humane societies and rescues release parvo-infected dogs as well as FIV-infected cats for adoption (generally this is to a longtime volunteer or someone they know, but still, it's the public). And there's a retail chicken operation in the area whose Yelp is full of confirmed Marek's cases.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I have a feeling that the poultry industry is behind the push for the euthanasia of non commercial poultry flocks as some way to protect their assets.

 

[Kathy Golla]

Yeah it’s starting to feel a bit seedy isn’t it. A few people have floated the idea that it’s getting rid of the competition.
The Secretary of the USDA who released the new $45M for the killing crews is Sonny Perdue. You make the connection.

 

[h2oratt]

Yeah it’s starting to feel a bit seedy isn’t it. A few people have floated the idea that it’s getting rid of the competition.
The Secretary of the USDA who released the new $45M for the killing crews is Sonny Perdue. You make the connection.

I realize wikipedia is not the most trusted site but he is not related to Perdue chicken farms.

I do think the commercial chicken factories are the governments main concern.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Perdue#Early_life_and_education

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Yeah it’s starting to feel a bit seedy isn’t it. A few people have floated the idea that it’s getting rid of the competition.
The Secretary of the USDA who released the new $45M for the killing crews is Sonny Perdue. You make the connection.

*sarcasm* He couldn’t have ulterior motives now could he?

 

[Animalfisherwoman]

Here's the 2019 table for detected VND:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...ease-information/avian/virulent-newcastle/vnd

The vast majority involves "backyard exhibition chickens" with only six being "non-commercial egg-layers."

So with that kind of spread, you'd expect the state to concentrate efforts on those operations.

I'm not sure that normies understand how different cockfighting is. I've seen them after an animal control confiscate: sharpened beaks and feet, super aggressive.

 

[Kathy Golla]

I realize wikipedia is not the most trusted site but he is not related to Perdue chicken farms.

I do think the commercial chicken factories are the governments main concern.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Perdue#Early_life_and_education

You are right! I SWEAR I read on the USDA website that his agribusiness was a Perdue farms, but it seems its not THE Perdue farms. My bad!

 

[Kathy Golla]

Here's the 2019 table for detected VND:
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...ease-information/avian/virulent-newcastle/vnd

The vast majority involves "backyard exhibition chickens" with only six being "non-commercial egg-layers."

So with that kind of spread, you'd expect the state to concentrate efforts on those operations.

I'm not sure that normies understand how different cockfighting is. I've seen them after an animal control confiscate: sharpened beaks and feet, super aggressive.

I think I saw on that SOB facebook page that someone had a statistic that 96% of the vnd cases have been cockfighting birds.

 

[Animalfisherwoman]

Again, I'd really like to see any studies on cross-property airborne transmission.

Far more likely is that commercial flocks were contaminated by workers dabbling in or attending cockfights.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Again, I'd really like to see any studies on cross-property airborne transmission.

Far more likely is that commercial flocks were contaminated by workers dabbling in or attending cockfights.

When speaking to my friend at the USDA she mentioned that since the some members of the Hispanic community don’t understand the impact of poultry diseases that they are unknowingly spreading vND.