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PLEASE READ. This may relieve some of your anxiety! Everytime a Canadian Goose or Duck flies overhead, I freak out. How can they NOT be infected and spreading this virus I think to myself. So I did some cross referencing and this is what I found: Using...

Can anyone point me to a migration map/tool that shows where birds are in the country and when they are migrating?

If I remember correctly, he had 30+ dog fenced coops for his specialty birds. Too small to be entered by a human, but access to get eggs and food/water. The specialty birds showed no signs even 7 days after the first bird died but were not tested, just destroyed.

There was that specialty bird owner in NY whose separate and secured specialty flock did not test positive but were destroyed after his egg layers tested positive. I'm guessing the DEC did it because they figured the specialty birds would get it eventually, but I still find it suspicious that...

We've had several cases in my state, the closest about 100 miles away. We have a wildlife and duck refuge on our property and ducks and geese fly over my birds daily. I kept everyone penned up for over three weeks and decided to let them out on warm sunny days last week. I have broody hens...

I wonder why the USDA hasn't recorded that.

I'm done. Three weeks+ locked down and my hens are out of their minds. Every other farm in my area has their flocks free ranging. It's 72 degrees today and the grass is green. I let them out. The closest detection was over 100 miles away. Fingers crossed it doesn't get any closer.

That's simply awful.

Does anyone know what the transmission rate is? Here in NY we had a whole month between detections from one county to the last. I'm wondering if that is because it takes the birds that long to travel or if it was transmitted by humans. So, if an infected bird enters a state on say April 1 how...

Humans are mammals and humans can get it.

I read an article a few weeks ago that stated Cats can get the H5N1 and get very ill from it.

Every resource I've read suggests migratory water fowl are headed back up to Canada and making a pit stop along the way. My guess would be the infected droppings are making their way inside on equipment, people, etc. All resources suggest that it's really easy to transfer so say a facility...

I checked and all the other commercial hatcheries are not in that county. I don't know what it is but considering it's so close to McMurray, Hoover and all the others it's alarming.

Just saw on the USDA Aphis site, what looks like a hatchery in IA lost 250k birds. McMurray, Hoover and several others are out in IA. I sincerely hope they have serious biosecurity.

A VERY informative study about infection and transmission from wild to domestic birds. I encourage you to read the whole abstract. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690888/

No one in my area seems to be upset by this virus at the moment. All my neighbors (all 4 of them) have chickens and ducks and they're still free ranging. Only one wild bird in my state tested positive (waterfowl) and some backyard flocks. Closest one was about 150 miles from me. Really too...

I don't want to panic over this and I haven't until now. HUGE flocks of black birds and geese have been visiting our area the past three days. They're everywhere. How can we avoid transmission, even if we keep our birds locked up? People, cats, dogs and mostly my kids run all over our...

We too have the entire setup encased in chicken wire. But with 6 inches of snow on the ground and temps below zero at night, I couldn't entice my girls to come out even if I wanted them out. Does anyone know if AI lives in cold temps?

What irritates me the most is the panic this is driving. I had two birds die in the past three weeks. One was a 10 yr old RSL. She had a stroke (wry neck) and died within 6 hours. The other was a 3 yr old RIR that had been lethargic with a swollen abdomen (ascites) for several months. Last...