Avian influenza found in South Carolina

[Sydney65]

I have free ranging guineas that have just entered breeding season. I have them locked down for part of the day but I’m afraid they will kill each other right now totally locked in. I’m about sick with worry…

...think Numi is moving out anytime soon?...

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

...think Numi is moving out anytime soon?...

Has Numi graduated to permanent house Guinea status?

 

[Sydney65]

When these reports are saying "non-poultry," what does that mean? Is that quail, pigeons?

https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/animals/id-movement/movement/pet-birds-non-poultry-avian

 

[Sydney65]

Has Numi graduated to permanent house Guinea status?

Well, we agreed she would move into the new coop and reign over the incoming, but it won't stop raining long enough to get it done.

 

[Sydney65]

It's a term that means "not commercial poultry," I think. Still chickens, turkeys, etc., but the birds are not part of a commercial source of meat or eggs. Backyard flocks, in other words.

It's a term that needs to change, imo, but probably won't. Very confusing.

"
Non-poultry avian is any species of bird that is not considered poultry. Poultry includes chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, waterfowl, pigeons, doves, peafowl, and game birds under the husbandry of humans."

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[Sonya9]

Oh, I didn't realize it was already in Georgia...

Why, then, is Tractor Supply and everywhere else still selling chicks and ducklings?

The 8 Georgia cases were WILD birds. No cases of infected flocks so far in our state last time I checked. H5N1 has been circulating since at least 2005 in the migratory birds so it has been in our state and all others for quite some time but it is just now causing more of a problem in commercial flocks.

BTW the chicks sold at feed stores usually come from large hatcheries out of state. Our feed store is selling chicks from Hoovers in Iowa (where all the culling is going on right now).

 

[AgnesGray]

"Non-poultry avian is any species of bird that is not considered poultry. Poultry includes chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, waterfowl, pigeons, doves, peafowl, and game birds under the husbandry of humans." https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/animals/id-movement/movement/pet-birds-non-poultry-avian

You'd think so, but many of the "non-poultry" flocks on the AI list are chickens.

Edit to add: I agree with you. They keep saying "poultry" and "non-poultry" in new and special ways.

 

[NatJ]

"Non-poultry avian is any species of bird that is not considered poultry. Poultry includes chickens, guinea fowl, turkeys, waterfowl, pigeons, doves, peafowl, and game birds under the husbandry of humans." https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/animals/id-movement/movement/pet-birds-non-poultry-avian

For all normal purposes, yes.

In this specific case, no. The terms poultry and non-poultry are being used differently, when aphis is reporting cases of avian influenza.

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...pai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks
This page usually has a listing of cases. It's down at the present instant, so I looked back through the thread for an example.

There's more info on one of the USDA pages this morning regarding one of the backyard flocks from the news articles.

Suffolk County, NY

2/19/2022

Backyard Pet Chickens (non-poultry)

From https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...pai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks

So they are using a weird definition of "poultry" if pet chickens are non-poultry.

This post ^ has a bit copied from that page.
AI was detected in "Backyard Pet Chickens (non-poultry)"

If chickens can be non-poultry, then "non-poultry" does not mean what we usually think it means!

 

[Sally PB]

If chickens can be non-poultry, then "non-poultry" does not mean what we usually think it means!

In this case, poultry refers to commercial poultry, destined for the commercial human food chain in one form or another. So "non-poultry" should probably say, "non-commercial poultry," as that's what we think it means. This was hashed over a lot in the beginning pages of this thread.

 

[Sydney65]

In this case, poultry refers to commercial poultry, destined for the commercial human food chain in one form or another. So "non-poultry" should probably say, "non-commercial poultry," as that's what we think it means. This was hashed over a lot in the beginning pages of this thread.

That's what I was thinking that the key word was "husbandry" - which I thought meant anyone raising,breeding & caring for - but in this instance means commercial?