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Someone in my area hit a young bobcat this morning, I was leaving for work and saw in the road an animal, got a little closer and saw it was a cat, pulled over cause I thought the neighbors cat had been run over and I hate it when a large animal gets hit and left to be smeared all over the road, anyway, I get closer and get a good look and think your not a house cat, Hmmmm oh my your a bobcat, it was not full grown. but least it's off the road.
 
lilwildrabbit said:
Th
at was a few years ago with a broiler house here in South Georgia the owner said it wasn't anything bad but it's better to let insurance pay for it you get so much more than the processing plant gives!!
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Well least their cost is covered but then you get the wonderful attention of your flock is sick and how long will he have to live with that.
 
lilwildrabbit said:
I saw where they caught them put them in a cage then off to the feed plant with them as to how I have no idea but bet your dollar they became dog or cat food
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If they run a special on rotisserie chicken at Costco and/or WalMart, you know where the depopulated birds went...
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Lady Who said:
*googles where Chattooga County is*
hahaha... I'm doomed...
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It's interesting---all documented avian flu cases are in northern parts of Alabama & GA & TN. Begs the question of viability of the strain of flu in warmer temps. The WHO, NIH & other studies indicate that the survivability of the disease is compromised as temps rise & steadily stay high. Love or hate middle/south GA, but I'm feeling pretty good about it hitting 91 last week. A breeder who I bought my greenfire line CL, Isbar & Bielefelder eggs from last week said that the NPIP vet who re-checked her that day said that 7 days of temps over 65 should kill it off. Not mentioned: how our GA spring rains & wet feces run off possibly affects us.
 
I'm seeing extreme panic in way too many folks about their flocks as far as this disease goes and not enough about the government's overreach in their "kill zone" approach. JMHO.

Note that almost all of the affected are commercial operations. They are mono-cultures, crammed into close quarters with zero immune systems. One germ will spread like wildfire through one of those warehouses. Backyard flocks are not the threat, these overcrowded operations are their own worst enemies, but they'll make a kill zone and say they must come kill your flock before it spreads disease. It's not *our* flocks that are the problem and killing them is no solution. When you do that, you threaten rare and heritage breeds that the commercial operations have no part in supporting. And think a minute-why the heck would they get AI, never having been outside? Someone tracked it into the building, or a sick wild bird flew in and was lost/dead among the chickens in the building. So, the claim that backyard flocks are more susceptible does not wash.

My chickens have zero contact with any commercial operation, no matter where they are located. If a wild bird flies into their warehouse or someone walks germs into it, how does that even relate to my flock at all? It was a wild bird or someone who has been tramping around other chicken operations, maybe the inspectors themselves.

They put federal restrictions on killing endangered species. Our heritage birds are that in this climate. You kill them off, you cannot get them back.
 
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speckledhen said:
I'm seeing extreme panic in way too many folks about their flocks as far as this disease goes and not enough about the government's overreach in their "kill zone" approach. JMHO.

Note that almost all of the affected are commercial operations. They are mono-cultures, crammed into close quarters with zero immune systems. One germ will spread like wildfire through one of those warehouses. Backyard flocks are not the threat, these overcrowded operations are their own worst enemies, but they'll make a kill zone and say they must come kill your flock before it spreads disease. It's not *our* flocks that are the problem and killing them is no solution. When you do that, you threaten rare and heritage breeds that the commercial operations have no part in supporting. And think a minute-why the heck would they get AI, never having been outside? Someone tracked it into the building, or a sick wild bird flew in and was lost/dead among the chickens in the building. So, the claim that backyard flocks are more susceptible does not wash.

My chickens have zero contact with any commercial operation, no matter where they are located. If a wild bird flies into their warehouse or someone walks germs into it, how does that even relate to my flock at all? It was a wild bird or someone who has been tramping around other chicken operations, maybe the inspectors themselves.

They put federal restrictions on killing endangered species. Our heritage birds are that in this climate. You kill them off, you cannot get them back.
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Agreed!! How are they protecting the commercial flocks as they transport them between commercial farms and the processing plants in the open trucks? Lots of opportunities for transmission that backyard flocks do not have.
 

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