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[ChickenCanoe]

I just heard on CBS national radio news that H5N2 is on a chicken farm in Iowa and 5.2 million hens will be destroyed.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It doesn't say what egg producer it is but the picture looks like Rose Acre Farms.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/up-to-5...-cull-after-h5n2-found-at-iowa-farm-1.2336394

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I feel ya.

Since we have fresh snow every morning... I can NOT believe I just hatched out chicks for ME, FOR ME!!!! What am I gonna do? Stick them in the tractor on the snow covered lawn???

Whatever.... what is 17ish chicks in the bathtub for a month? I wont notice it will I?

You poor thing. We still have snow in spots, but nothing fresh. I had "chicks" in the house for about 3 months... I was going insane.


Cyn... gorgeous place you have there.

 

[chickadoodles]

Can you pick out the chicken chick?

She is trying to hide in the quail.

Aww they are so cute! I see the chick.

 

[chickadoodles]

It doesn't say what egg producer it is but the picture looks like Rose Acre Farms.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/up-to-5...-cull-after-h5n2-found-at-iowa-farm-1.2336394

The eggs in the stores is under Sunrise Farms bySonstegard Foods Company.

I know and the Governor of Wisconsin has called out the National Guard!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/re...eclares-state-emergency-bird-flu-poultry.html

 

[ChickenCanoe]

That's 10% of all the commercial laying hens in Iowa.
I'm not mad at commercial agriculture because someone has to feed all these urbanites but that is the downside of such close confinement.

I need more bird netting.

 

[chickadoodles]

That's 10% of all the commercial laying hens in Iowa.
I'm not mad at commercial agriculture because someone has to feed all these urbanites but that is the downside of such close confinement.

I need more bird netting.

I know it is down right scary! All my birds are in covered pens and runs. I went to TSC and bought some of the tarps they had on sale 2 for 4.99 and covered all the pens and runs till this mess in caught up on or dealt with. Or maybe forever!

 

[Beer can]

I usually free range mine. I haven't liked the poop all over anyway, they are confined to coop and run now. Too many times geese are hanging out in our front yard and pond.

 

[chickadoodles]

I usually free range mine. I haven't liked the poop all over anyway, they are confined to coop and run now. Too many times geese are hanging out in our front yard and pond.

I would not even know what to do if I had a pond that wild fowl were in right now

 

[Alaskan]

total mind numbing panic?