The Old Folks Home

[chickisoup]

It's sick enough that I almost caught it with a net! Now it's walking around like a drunk person would and breathing through it's mouth
-Kathy

Here we are told to call the DNR. That is one of the behaviors we were told to watch for. That and dead.

 

[casportpony]

Quote: At this point I'd rather not get not get officials involved.

 

[chickisoup]

At this point I'd rather not get not get officials involved.

I hear ya!!!

Honestly don't think I would either unless my girls started getting sick.

 

[casportpony]

Doesn't AI have a high mortality rate in domestic flocks?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I saw it poop, and the poop looks normal.

-Kathy

 

[chickisoup]

Doesn't AI have a high mortality rate in domestic flocks?

-Kathy

almost 100%

 

[casportpony]

Quote: Guess I'll know soon enough then, right?

 

[chickisoup]

Guess I'll know soon enough then, right?

Honestly haven't heard the incubation time, just that it is roughly 48 hours from display of symptoms to death.

 

[ronott1]

Guess I'll know soon enough then, right?

AI has a high mortality in our domestic fowl--wild geese and etc. are resistant enough to spread it though. Wild turkeys may also be a vector.

 

[bamadude]

Alaskan: I vote cull.
I just gave away a special needs, year old cuckoo Marans hen. She laid 2 eggs. The yolks were bloody too. She was an assisted hatch.