LOS ANGELES county CA under bird quarantine :(

[Taylorbrood]

It's been extensively covered in SoCal. Print: Valley News of Hemet, Perris Sentinel, Riverside Press-Enterprise, OC Register, LA Times. Broadcast: ABC7 Southern California, NBC Los Angeles, Telemundo, Spectrum 1.

I binged "inland empire chicken owners" and got these results:

https://abc7.com/pets-animals/inlan...rustrated-over-euthanization-methods/5302295/

https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-eas...effects-of-newcastle-disease-in-inland-empire

https://www.ocregister.com/2019/05/...-tops-more-than-1-1-million-in-inland-empire/

yes, but none of this happened until after Kerries flock got slaughtered and G sat our front for weeks, and the SOB people tried in vain to get their attention. Only one guy posted the story in the beginning and dang near lost his job.

 

[Taylorbrood]

Whoever says gassing is humane hasn’t seen this video obviously.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=141900220301746

was this the one that he forgot to turn the gas on?

 

[Taylorbrood]

Have you watched any of these videos?

It looks like the cops have to show up to keep the Kerri people under control.

Doesn't look like the cops are there for the chicken owner.

It's a big joke if you ask me. Kerri likes to laugh about wasting tax payers money. She is wasting it.

cops are there to serve the warrants and for cdfa/usda, they are not there to protect the sob folks. CDFA is upset that they are being questioned, and videoed, until kerris flock was killed everyone one just let it happen, nothing was shared except maybe in local groups. The attorney is doing his job, join the group and you can read the legal documents or not.

 

[Willowspirit]

cops are there to serve the warrants and for cdfa/usda, they are not there to protect the sob folks. CDFA is upset that they are being questioned, and videoed, until kerris flock was killed everyone one just let it happen, nothing was shared except maybe in local groups. The attorney is doing his job, join the group and you can read the legal documents or not.

Where is the coverage of the cdfa people showing up at an elderly woman's house with a bogus warrant and nine CHP?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

was this the one that he forgot to turn the gas on?

I’m not sure. I found it on Facebook. You can hear the chickens flapping around in the can.

 

[Anime2lover]

I’m not sure. I found it on Facebook. You can hear the chickens flapping around in the can.

Thats got to be a gut wrenching sound. We raise meat birds here to, but it's only one or two at a time, not mass killing like that. Itd make me want to hurl.

 

[BreanneRN]

I will just share this post from today. It encapsulates much of what people are going through. I have omitted personally identifying info.

Our hens are dead now, on OUR schedule and by our own, more humane hand. So now I will more fully share our story and our area, which is in the mandatory kill zone [details redacted]

"Hi Dr. [redacted], thank you for reaching out. I am always happy to discourse with any voices of reason because while this is emotional for me since these are my pets, there is also quite a bit of misinformation and bad advice going around.

As I see it, a major issue, as you have experienced in Jurupa Valley, is that there has been little consistency neighborhood to neighborhood or person to person or in town hall meetings with what is being said and done regarding this alleged VND outbreak. The resultant and unnecessary confusion has led to a lot of anger and frustration and misunderstandings. The state vet position and the actions of the cdfa and even the CHP have created an openly hostile environment. Adults do not enjoy being danced around or treated like they are ignorant or are being criminals.

We are in a mandatory kill zone. Our hens have always been confined in their enclosed henhouse and fenced and covered run, nowhere near any other chickens. My flock has always enjoyed peak health, and my across-the-street neighbor's (also fully contained) poultry were tested and found negative 3 months ago. We were obviously already in full QT compliance.

There are NO "passes" given anymore, and all area poultry in these zones are scheduled for killing, even with having fully complied with QT and biosecurity measures. There are many stories about unequal treatment and so much conflicting information being dispensed that nobody is actually finding the truth, as you have also experienced.

I have been in discussions with a veterinarian who is advocating for those of us in the QT and mandatory kill zones. She has had multiple and totally uninformative phone calls with the state veterinarian and several cdfa agents and staff. To my knowledge, there has been no one successful in obtaining evidence of infected birds within 1 mile of a mandatory kill zone and no cooperation with obtaining records to support the measures being taken to eradicate this alleged outbreak. Since it is a direct contact virus, that lack serves to further inflame the emotions of those of us who have privately owned poultry.

Privately owned quarantined domestic pigeons are being euthanized while at the same time we live in areas heavily populated with wild pigeons. I ask you, or anybody, which population--the confined or the wild--would any thinking individual believe poses more of a risk to infect the uninfected? Those of us who have been compliant from the get-go feel we are "sitting ducks" for the ever-changing and largely unannounced boundary changes and rules.

We woke up this morning to 3 vehicles on 2 of our side streets photographing our property and us, presumably to ensure that we do not attempt to move our birds and thus incur a $2,500 fine. They are in black or white cars or SUVs, waiting and watching for whatever it is they are looking for. My husband is outside this very moment humanely dispatching our hens while I type this, hiding upstairs in the bathroom in complete despair.

We elected to handle the euth situation our own way after watching numerous videos and photographs of horribly inept and cruel dispatch by the hired chicken killers. We were given a notice yesterday with a 10-day time frame, any day of which they would be coming to kill and dispose of our chickens. I go to work every day to work with animals and can't live with the threat of the death squad, cdfa personnel, and/or armed CHP officers appearing unannounced at an unknown time on an unknown day. What a thing it is to sit around and wait for this to happen at any random moment. No thank you.

I will phone the cdfa in the morning to tell them they can come inspect and fetch the poultry corpses that are now sealed in 5-gallon buckets in our outdoors refrigerator, perform their mandatory property inspection, and then tell them that I do not ever want to see them around our property again. If they return to ensure that we have not repopulated with new chickens, they will need to come prepared with a properly executed search warrant. We have had to kill our much-loved pets, and I am feeling beyond bitter about it.

What can you say after reading this??? It is beyond sad and tragic.

 

[zenith_cirice]

glad i found this forum. as a bird owner in SoCal been wanting to stay up to date with this issue. joined the Save Our Birds group and although i feel deeply for people losing their pets and definitely feel CDFA is overreaching and generally doing a piss poor job in handling this, i just cant with that group anymore. too much paranoia and hysteria is clouding the facts. when youve got someone who believes the government is trying to kill her....yeaaahhhh...time to move on. found some really useful info in this thread so thank you all for that. will keep following!

 

[Kiki]

glad i found this forum. as a bird owner in SoCal been wanting to stay up to date with this issue. joined the Save Our Birds group and although i feel deeply for people losing their pets and definitely feel CDFA is overreaching and generally doing a piss poor job in handling this, i just cant with that group anymore. too much paranoia and hysteria is clouding the facts. when youve got someone who believes the government is trying to kill her....yeaaahhhh...time to move on. found some really useful info in this thread so thank you all for that. will keep following!

Welcome to BYC!

 

[zenith_cirice]

Welcome to BYC!

thanks!