What did you do in the garden today?

[chickengr]

I think you misunderstood. They culled the pheasants. They were not released.

but the zoo keeps their animals, right?

 

[Sueby]

@Acre4Me I have always mulched my garlic when planted with a deep layer of baked straw, I pull it back in the spring & fertilize & leave it pulled away from the bulbs. I've never had any rot. Like @Sally PB they go in about 2 inches deep. I don't think they're all that picky, really. I've never lost any cloves to anything but critters! & for that I put HC over them till spring.

 

[JedJackson]

I dug potatoes, harvested a few late cucumbers and watched hummingbirds swarm the big fuchsia bush by the front door. It's so smoky here from wildfires far away that I can't take being out in it for too long, but we are supposed to finally get rain this weekend. Yay!

 

[WthrLady]

I have been saying that for years and people see me as a black sheep or white crow. I don't talk any more. who believes in cinderella and snow white it is his/her problem, not mine.

Except that's NOT what I said at ALL!!!!!

The birds were CULLED because they were exposed.
BEFORE they had been exposed, like in a NORMAL year, this farm raises bio secure pheasants for the state, who buys them and sets them out in to the field to be hunted. BTW the commercial birds here are regularly tested and highly monitored to PREVENT crap from farms from getting into the wild.

There is more wild avian flu around here right now than on farms. It's there, period. Our extreme lack of migrating birds, wild turkey and raptors is proof of that. It's seasonal with the mirgrational flow of the infected birds. No way around it.

 

[TJAnonymous]

but the zoo keeps their animals, right?

Yep... I think they try to justify it (right or wrong) because the zoo biosecurity is typically more controlled than a commercial business or backyard coop and the animals may be a threatened species. Doesn't make it right....

 

[TJAnonymous]

Except that's NOT what I said at ALL!!!!!

The birds were CULLED because they were exposed.
BEFORE they had been exposed, like in a NORMAL year, this farm raises bio secure pheasants for the state, who buys them and sets them out in to the field to be hunted. BTW the commercial birds here are regularly tested and highly monitored to PREVENT crap from farms from getting into the wild.

There is more wild avian flu around here right now than on farms. It's there, period. Our extreme lack of migrating birds, wild turkey and raptors is proof of that. It's seasonal with the mirgrational flow of the infected birds. No way around it.

Well I at least hope they used the meat for something good instead of throwing it all away

 

[WthrLady]

Yes, the zoo is exempt as it can tightly lockdown and treat and monitor their animals. The government doesn't trust the rest of us chicken/poutlry raising farmers to manage that and just kill everything on the property without testing or even letting us try.

 

[WthrLady]

Well I at least hope they used the meat for something good instead of throwing it all away

Nope, foamed, then burned.

 

[TJAnonymous]

My little sugar pie nestled in a bed of philodendren... I think the pumpkin likes being inside. It opened 3 male blooms today.

Now if I could just keep my dog out of the lemon tree (which is losing leaves as I predicted... Sigh) drama queen

 

[WthrLady]

The bird at the zoo was a captive white pelican ( which are native birds here) that uses the same open water and lake that the wild migrating ducks and geese use. They locked down all bird exhibits to prevent spread to non infected birds. I think they found a couple other birds infected, but cannot remember what they are.