YO GEORGIANS! :)

[ronnhill7]

Welcome Robin37, join the fun!

 

[EmilyP]

I have done no research on AI (so please correct/educate me if i am misunderstood).

I think I heard that the virus loses viability as the temperature rises, so in a few weeks when we really start heating up in the state the risk of spread/growth of AI should decrease dramatically? or did I imagine hearing that?

 

[AfroChickens]

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Your wife understands my pain. Anything below 73 is too cold for me.

 

[AfroChickens]

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We had our coop ready for winter and 6 of 8 chickens stayed out in the run at night, every night, rain, storm, snow, freezing, frost, every night.

Chicken logic is weird. Well, now I really am not worried about them. I will make sure to have roost in the run and the coop just in case they decided that they rather live in the run part the whole year. =)

 

[PapaChaz]

That's long-shot hypothetical. Besides, I don't know of any sick birds outside of the one that was tested on the commercial farm, and it only had the N7 strain which is so mild it is only detectable by blood test. So, where's the beef? If serious AI were found in the state, I would agree with the decision, but that's not the case. The state put the cart ahead of the horse on this one.

Anyway, I'm not going to worry about it or lose a wink of sleep. Take care.

the wild geese that fly over my yard and drop an occasional present making my small flock sick is a long shot hypothetical as well, but entirely possible. although that has nothing to do with the don't sell order, and my above mentioned scenario is exactly the kind of 'opportunity' the buy and sell ban eliminates. As for the state putting the cart before the horse on this one, well if they DIDN'T, and someone brought in a sick bird and started an epidemic, then there would be someone somewhere whining "why didn't the state step in and do something to prevent this". Personally, I've always been on the side of 'better safe than sorry'

and I didn't lose a minutes sleep last night over any of it either

 

[livhatcher]

I have done no research on AI (so please correct/educate me if i am misunderstood).

I think I heard that the virus loses viability as the temperature rises, so in a few weeks when we really start heating up in the state the risk of spread/growth of AI should decrease dramatically? or did I imagine hearing that?

You are correct. I've read multiple peer reviewed & international studies as well as talked to people who say we should be in the clear shortly. Dammit, March for being so crazy this year!!! As I mentioned in an earlier post, I think it's no coincidence that the southern cases are still substantially above the Atlanta parallel. Put simply: it's colder there. And, as others have pointed out, 1 bird sick in a commercial facility is not going to constitute panic in my backyard.

 

[EmilyP]

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I'm looking forward to the warm up then!!

 

[katsdar]

Don't you remember the old saying, March winds will make you sick, and we were to keep the babies heads covered to keep them out of the wind.

 

[EmilyP]

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I grew up outside Chicago and moved to the south just over 2 years ago, March was still prime snow/freezing weather!

 

[brucifer]

the wild geese that fly over my yard and drop an occasional present making my small flock sick is a long shot hypothetical as well, but entirely possible. although that has nothing to do with the don't sell order, and my above mentioned scenario is exactly the kind of 'opportunity' the buy and sell ban eliminates. As for the state putting the cart before the horse on this one, well if they DIDN'T, and someone brought in a sick bird and started an epidemic, then there would be someone somewhere whining "why didn't the state step in and do something to prevent this". Personally, I've always been on the side of 'better safe than sorry'

and I didn't lose a minutes sleep last night over any of it either

Let's step back and look at what the GDA did in the beginning: AI was found at the area of the TN/AL state line, so the GDA put a ban in place without a single case being found in GA. Sorry, I don't see this as a "logical" rationale for a blanket GA state ban at that point. It's the Chicken Little approach.

Next, a very mild strain of AI, N7, is found on one commercial farm in GA, so the GA ban is extended by the GDA. Whatever.

BTW, if any of your birds ever had the N7 strain, you would never know it without a blood sample. The strain is that mild. It's not the killer AI strain, H7, that was found in Lincoln County, TN. Also, TN only put in a 10-mile quarantine perimeter around the affected site, yet the GDA took it upon itself to put a ban in place across the entire state of GA. Talk about overkill.

http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Livestock/Deadly-bird-flu-outbreak-hits-US-farm