Chicken fever updates

[jenkinsbrynmair]

The latest:

In response to the significant increase in findings of avian influenza in kept and wild birds, in addition to the national AIPZ, mandatory housing measures to protect poultry & captive birds has now come into force in:

Cheshire – added City of Kingston Upon Hull Herefordshire – added The East Riding of Yorkshire Lancashire – added Lincolnshire Merseyside – added Norfolk North Yorkshire An area in Shropshire Suffolk Worcestershire – added York.

It is now a legal requirement for all bird keepers who fall in the above listed areas to house their birds in addition to following stringent biosecurity measures.
If keepers fall into a Protection Zone outside of these areas, they must also house their birds.

The AIPZ mandating enhanced biosecurity measures remains in place across GB.

 

[The Poot]

Just received this.

 

[enrico]

Just received this.
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Heartbreaking and bank breaking

 

[Erichalfbee]

Just received this.
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That is just awful. We take so much for granted don’t we
Today I took our last remaining hen to a place where she can be slowly introduced to others and free range for the rest of her days. She is 14/15 so no spring chicken but she was desperately unhappy on her own.
I cried on the way home in the car.
I feel a little ashamed of myself reading that Poot.

 

[The Poot]

That is just awful. We take so much for granted don’t we
Today I took our last remaining hen to a place where she can be slowly introduced to others and free range for the rest of her days. She is 14/15 so no spring chicken but she was desperately unhappy on her own.
I cried on the way home in the car.
I feel a little ashamed of myself reading that Poot.

Oh bless you Dani. Don’t feel ashamed - you’re doing the right thing for your chick (presumably in preparation for a move) and we can only influence what is within our control.
There are things that really make me mad and this is one of them!
It’s all so blown out of proportion- see slide 2 for the WHO declared risk.
Scientists have been “doing things” to the virus for 27 years.

 

[Erichalfbee]

It’s all so blown out of proportion- see slide 2 for the WHO declared risk.

Wild bird colonies have been all but wiped out in places

Great Skuas began dying across islands in Scotland in summer 2021. Then in winter 2021/22 on the Solway Firth, bird flu killed a third of the Svalbard breeding population of Barnacle Geese – at least 13,200 birds. In winter 2022/23, up to 5,000 Greenland Barnacle Geese died on Islay, as well as hundreds of ducks, swans, gulls and other geese species. Birds of prey such as Peregrine Falcon, Hen Harrier, Buzzard, White-tailed Eagle and Golden Eagle have also been testing positive.

In summer 2022, the UK’s seabirds were hit extremely hard by bird flu. Thousands of Gannets were lost at RSPB Troup Head and at RSPB Grassholm, with numbers at Grassholm now at lows not seen since the 1960s. We lost over 2,500 Great Skuas in Scotland, as well as over a quarter of our Roseate Terns on Coquet Island, the only breeding colony of this species in the UK.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

ah, but it's always better to listen to the conspiracy theorists and anti vax types

 

[Penninetrader]

Heartbreaking and bank breaking

Predictable and I did say what was to come. This is being played out in the US and will be expanded, none so blind. Egg shortages in US and prices of $10 dozen. Hope I am wrong. All eyes on Mexico due to it's absolute reliance on eggs for protein for the poor