Avian influenza found in South Carolina

[Folly's place]

Saw our first wild goslings today! Cute, maybe a few days old at most, and wish they weren't here at all...
Mary

 

[NightingaleJen]

Saw our first wild goslings today! Cute, maybe a few days old at most, and wish they weren't here at all...
Mary

I hate that feeling. :/ Normally I love the wild birds, always have, and welcome the return of the songbirds in spring. *sad sigh*

 

[Lelilamom]

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 https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...vian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-wild-birds
I noted when and what wild birds were detected in my state. Then watched the migration patterns for the ten days preceding the detection using https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/.

Then I went back to https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...pai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks and compared those detection dates and areas with the dates of heavy migration.

I found that backyard flocks and commercial detections were the day of or the day after the wild bird detection dates which were within 5 days of heavy migration.

For example: There was medium to high migration for my entire state (NY) from March 24 through April 5. There were wild bird and backyard flock testing positive on March 30 and April 5 and one backyard flock testing positive the next day, April 6.

Then I used this site to determine what birds were migrating during that time:
https://dashboard.birdcast.info/region/US-NY-083?night=2022-04-05. You can see the list of birds on the right.

I see that snow geese were migrating from March 24 through April 5. There were infected snow geese in my state at that time. However, in the last 30 days no snow geese are migrating. For a final test I checked all the birds that are migrating in my area in the last 15 days and none of them are on the list of wild bird detections.

I'm HOPING this means that no infected birds are migrating anymore. The next big wave of migration is in about 2 weeks. Song birds. I'll update then.

 

[RoyalChick]

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 https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...vian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-wild-birds
I noted when and what wild birds were detected in my state. Then watched the migration patterns for the ten days preceding the detection using https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/.

Then I went back to https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...pai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks and compared those detection dates and areas with the dates of heavy migration.

I found that backyard flocks and commercial detections were the day of or the day after the wild bird detection dates which were within 5 days of heavy migration.

For example: There was medium to high migration for my entire state (NY) from March 24 through April 5. There were wild bird and backyard flock testing positive on March 30 and April 5 and one backyard flock testing positive the next day, April 6.

Then I used this site to determine what birds were migrating during that time:
https://dashboard.birdcast.info/region/US-NY-083?night=2022-04-05. You can see the list of birds on the right.

I see that snow geese were migrating from March 24 through April 5. There were infected snow geese in my state at that time. However, in the last 30 days no snow geese are migrating. For a final test I checked all the birds that are migrating in my area in the last 15 days and none of them are on the list of wild bird detections.

I'm HOPING this means that no infected birds are migrating anymore. The next big wave of migration is in about 2 weeks. Song birds. I'll update then.

Thank you for doing that - I was planning on doing something like that as soon as I saw the birdcast tool (which is really great) but haven't had a chance.
The other thing I was going to do was to look back on birdcast to the previous year and use that as a crude predictor of migration to come.
I can't find the link right now but I also found reference to pooping on the wing. It does happen, but not a lot. The typical pattern is to poop before you fly and when you land. Of course that is never 100% true but it does mean that a flock of geese flying overhead are not necessarily raining down poop on your chickens.

 

[Iluveggers]

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 https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...vian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-wild-birds
I noted when and what wild birds were detected in my state. Then watched the migration patterns for the ten days preceding the detection using https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/.

Then I went back to https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ou...pai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks and compared those detection dates and areas with the dates of heavy migration.

I found that backyard flocks and commercial detections were the day of or the day after the wild bird detection dates which were within 5 days of heavy migration.

For example: There was medium to high migration for my entire state (NY) from March 24 through April 5. There were wild bird and backyard flock testing positive on March 30 and April 5 and one backyard flock testing positive the next day, April 6.

Then I used this site to determine what birds were migrating during that time:
https://dashboard.birdcast.info/region/US-NY-083?night=2022-04-05. You can see the list of birds on the right.

I see that snow geese were migrating from March 24 through April 5. There were infected snow geese in my state at that time. However, in the last 30 days no snow geese are migrating. For a final test I checked all the birds that are migrating in my area in the last 15 days and none of them are on the list of wild bird detections.

I'm HOPING this means that no infected birds are migrating anymore. The next big wave of migration is in about 2 weeks. Song birds. I'll update then.

Thank you so much for that info!

 

[Molpet]

Thank you for doing that - I was planning on doing something like that as soon as I saw the birdcast tool (which is really great) but haven't had a chance.
The other thing I was going to do was to look back on birdcast to the previous year and use that as a crude predictor of migration to come.
I can't find the link right now but I also found reference to pooping on the wing. It does happen, but not a lot. The typical pattern is to poop before you fly and when you land. Of course that is never 100% true but it does mean that a flock of geese flying overhead are not necessarily raining down poop on your chickens.

My vehicles will disagree on pooping on the wing.
I had a blue heron let loose on me.... Every piece of clothing, Boots, my hands and face... mostly in my hair.... what a mess

 

[Weeg]

Has this been posted? Avian influenza in Washington.
https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-...Q3QBxK9YzL11SmWa9CY4n71lizbufT7IZid7MpLLYNzCk

 

[sierraforest]

Has this been posted? Avian influenza in Washington.
https://agr.wa.gov/about-wsda/news-...Q3QBxK9YzL11SmWa9CY4n71lizbufT7IZid7MpLLYNzCk

And in Oregon, too, plus some unconfirmed but suspected cases in WA

https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/06/avian-flu-confirmed-in-oregon-for-first-time-since-2015/

https://recombinomics.co/h5n1-hpai-united-states-2022-map/

 

[Folly's place]

I saw that today too, and the case in Oakland county, Michigan. All backyard flocks.
Be careful out there!
Mary

 

[It_is_I_Rae]

I'm posting here because this is the biggest avian flu thread I could find. Today I saw at least 3 dead hawks on the side of the road in my town. I have never seen a dead hawk on the side of the road before. There are no confirmed cases anywhere near me but somehow I have a feeling that the state isn't actively testing for it because of course they aren't... it's Missouri. Everyone here is a dimwit and doesn't take it seriously. I don't think it's a normal sight to see MULTIPLE dead raptors on the street within miles of eachother. There's no way that avian influenza doesn't have anything to do with it. My birds should be safe, they're in a covered run and I wear coop only shoes around them, but that's still worrying to me.