Official BYC Poll: What Are You Doing to Protect Your Flock From Bird Flu (H5N1) Infection?

[ChicFil- A]

Looks neat and tidy. Mines a little janky at the moment

Take my word for it mine is junked from winter
there is a lot of “a round to it’s” that will be fine as soon as weather allows, we had about 3 days of early spring sunshine that triggered my weekend worrier spirit and I almost did myself in

 

[Mr Spot]

When I first heard about it, it was here on BYC, I called our county extension agent, he told me only one county here in Texas had been affected, Erath County, which is well over a hundred miles from me. Being a bird nut, and really hated doing that since I've fed them for many many years, I took down my wild bird feeders down and didn't add any new chickens to the flock so I assume we missed it here. Since I haven't heard or read anything new I did put a couple of feeders back up yesterday. I really missed seeing all the doves, blue jays, and cardinals, maybe they will start visiting again.

 

[Allsfairinloveandbugs]

When I first heard about it, it was here on BYC, I called our county extension agent, he told me only one county here in Texas had been affected, Erath County, which is well over a hundred miles from me.

Confirmed cases in Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, Lampasas as well as Erath Counties as of March 2023. (I'm in far north Texas.) Still a very low infection rate compared to other regions.

 

[Mr Spot]

Confirmed cases in Dallas, Denton, Rockwall, Lampasas as well as Erath Counties as of March 2023. (I'm in far north Texas.) Still a very low infection rate compared to other regions.

Wow, I wasn't aware of that, thanks for letting me know.

 

[gmaccis]

Perhaps someone has already posted this info elsewhere, but I have been using this map:
https://birdcast.info/migration-tools/live-migration-maps/ to monitor bird migration routes and numbers. At least it gives me an idea of when there is heavy flyover in my area, and I can then curtail free ranging as needed. I realize the virus can stay active on surfaces for an extended period of time, just using this as a guide for obvious potential risk.

 

[A little Daffy]

Anybody have experience giving organic green tea leaves to ducks?

 

[3KillerBs]

Anybody have experience giving organic green tea leaves to ducks?

Isn't caffeine poisonous to birds?

 

[A little Daffy]

Isn't caffeine poisonous to birds?

I would imagine it would be in large quantities but that's why I was asking. I know green tea doesn't have a lot of caffeine, but I have no idea how much would be toxic to ducks.

 

[3KillerBs]

I would imagine it would be in large quantities but that's why I was asking. I know green tea doesn't have a lot of caffeine, but I have no idea how much would be toxic to ducks.

Why do you want to give them green tea? Especially since it's potentially poisonous?

 

[A little Daffy]

I don't necessarily. I just had it here and was wondering if it was something a duck could have as a treat.