Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

A birder who I know was just posting about the great shorebirds he’s seeing migrating through our area. Then I was directed to the Cornell Ornithology Labs predicted migration data… Still lots of migratory activity in my town so I think that I’ll still be keeping my birds locked up for a bit, despite the lack of new cases in Oklahoma. I do see that there are new cases in the states just North of us.

 

[BDutch]

No, unfortunately this strain of AI is not only very contagious, it also has a high mortality rate. From a recent news report "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPAI infections have a 90-100% mortality rate in chickens, affecting multiple internal organs and causing death within 48 hours. "

Maybe this is correct for farms. Hobby keepers often have less death.

i’ve been curious, is there any info on when this outbreak is likely to end? in the summer where i live it gets to be 80-97 degrees most days. would that do it in?

to me it’s strange to only be learning about this disease because of this outbreak. i did a lot of research when i first got chicks and never heard about it. i thought mareks was the biggest concern but this seems even more dangerous since you can’t control the biggest risk factor, and theres not even a vaccine.

This is contagious AI came to N America from Europe or Asia because of a strong wind . It made travel birds taking another route as they do usually.

For 20 years it came and went in Europe. But the last 4 years it returned every winter and didn’t disappear until spring with warm weather and lots of sun. At about 20 C in april HPAI left , just like the flu.

But this very contagious HPAI doesn’t disappear like other years. We have new cases almost every day. The agricultural univerity here says that the transmission is mainly because of contacts between farms, while earlier the cause of the infections was because wild waterbirds / fowl were the carriers of new infections in the chicken and other poultry farms.

Edited : the origin of this AI.

 

[chrissynemetz]

A man in my county has tested positive for avian flu.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

A man in my county has tested positive for avian flu.

A person or his flock tested positive?

 

[chrissynemetz]

A person or his flock tested positive?

A person.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

A person.

in the USA? There are no reported cases in humans as of April 27, so it would have had to have been yesterday, April 28. Where did you see this?

 

[Aunt Angus]

in the USA? There are no reported cases in humans as of April 27, so it would have had to have been yesterday, April 28. Where did you see this?

I googled it. It was on several news sources.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/health/colorado-bird-flu-human-case-cdc/index.html

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

I googled it. It was on several news sources.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/health/colorado-bird-flu-human-case-cdc/index.html

Thank you.
Still appears the risk to humans is very, very low.

 

[chrissynemetz]

in the USA? There are no reported cases in humans as of April 27, so it would have had to have been yesterday, April 28. Where did you see this?

It was all over the local news here. It was a guy culling infected chickens on a commercial farm a few miles from my house.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Thank you.
Still appears the risk to humans is very, very low.

Yep. I'm more worried about my flock. And I hope he continued to recover. Sounds like it wasn't a serious infection.