Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[jbkirk]

Who would you prefer to pay for disease control?

The birds are going to die anyway. It is better for them to be euthanized quickly and disposed of by professionals rather than having the disease spread to neighboring farms. I'm assuming the monetary compensation is in place to encourage people to go along with the extermination policy.

Apparently water fowl (mainly ducks) can survive the disease, but they become carriers and spread it around everywhere. That is how it is being spread right now, by wild mallard ducks.

(I'd rather pay someone for their ducks and chickens than for more affluent scam artists to collect food stamps.)

I guess I would rather pay someone to kill their birds than let them infect mine and I totally agree about the food stamps!!!

 

[CharterChick]

Not chicken related... But...

SUPERBOWL BABY!!!! GO HAWKS!!!

What a stressful game!

 

[MiniCoop]

Not chicken related... But...

SUPERBOWL BABY!!!! GO HAWKS!!!

What a stressful game!

You can say that again! But they did it! Yeaaaa! Go Seahawks!!!!!!!!!

 

[Espresso]

Not chicken related... But...

SUPERBOWL BABY!!!! GO HAWKS!!!

What a stressful game!

Yes!!! So excited!!!

 

[ShockValue]

I'm not much of a sportsball fan, but that WAS an exciting game.

Anyway - about chickens...

If your flock is diagnosed with AI and have to be culled... How does one sanatize / sterilize / etc. so you can start over? It's more out of curiosity as my flock tested negative and I don't have water-foul landing anywhere near my flock.. But.. you never know what might happen.

 

[Amberjem]

I'm not much of a sportsball fan, but that WAS an exciting game.

Anyway - about chickens...

If your flock is diagnosed with AI and have to be culled... How does one sanatize / sterilize / etc. so you can start over? It's more out of curiosity as my flock tested negative and I don't have water-foul landing anywhere near my flock.. But.. you never know what might happen.

not totally sure but I believe there is a waiting period after clean up before can get more stock...



how is your hen with the bumblefoot?

 

[ShockValue]

We did home-surgery again last week. It seems to be healing well, and she's not favoring it as much. However, I can tell she still doesn't like to put pressure on it.... I'm hoping that has to do with still healing, and not because the infection is still there. We'll see :/

 

[jbkirk]

I read that you can get free AI testing but forgot where can someone help my memory?

 

[CarolynF]

I'm not much of a sportsball fan, but that WAS an exciting game.

Anyway - about chickens...

If your flock is diagnosed with AI and have to be culled... How does one sanatize / sterilize / etc. so you can start over? It's more out of curiosity as my flock tested negative and I don't have water-foul landing anywhere near my flock.. But.. you never know what might happen.

When the USDA euthanizes the flock they also do the cleanup and sterilization. I don't know yet how they do the sterilizing. They also come back to monitor and make sure it stays clean. Sherry said that the USDA people told her she would have to wait 30 days before getting new birds. She's not planning to, however.

As to the compensation. USDA pay the owner for each of the LIVE birds that are euthanized. Not for any birds that die before that. They calculate fair market value which she said was about 1/6 lower than her estimates. That's about 16%.

@elizmartin it's Sherry (Pierce) Smith aka Daze333. She has a mixed flock of chickens, ducks, and geese. Even Nene Geese. She's been super good about sharing her information and experience. As you might expect she's devastated, especially about her geese.

 

[ochochicas]

The influenza virus only lives a short time in the environment. I believe I read you can get new birds after 30 days, or possibly sooner during warmer weather. There are also chemical agents you can spray on the coop to kill it. I think sunlight will kill any living virus on the ground. Not positive on this though.