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After posting the above I chickened out and I still have them confined. I looked at the Cornell Ornithology Lab bird migration map and saw that we had just had something like 1 million birds pass through a few days ago. Then o saw a dead Canada goose by the side of the road near my house and it...

We do have a pond and it attracts shorebirds - a great blue heron and American egret visit often. The pond and shorebirds have been my major concern. Temps are warm and dry here, but I don’t know how long it could survive in the pond water. However, I think I’m reaching the end of what I can...

It’s been a month since our one positive HPAI case in Oklahoma, a wild duck found in my county. Confinement of the guineas fowl has been hard on them so I’m thinking about letting them out this weekend… :fl Anyone else have criteria they are using for when to set their birds free?

My guineas are not happy, though at least they are using their coop nests now. Best of luck!

I’m so sorry that you lost your birds, whatever the cause! Wasn’t HPAI just discovered in the Pacific flyway, but far north of you? I don’t think there have been reports in California yet, if that’s any consolation.

In the US, they should be submitted to your state diagnostic lab. Most have programs that allow free poultry necropsies in exchange for avian influenza testing, as part of our National AI surveillance system. Talk with the lab first, but it’s best to submit the whole carcass that has been stored...

Great resource!

Has Numi graduated to permanent house Guinea status? :lau

I’m planning on tarps for the Guinea run but my chicken and rooster runs have shade cloth up. Tarps would be better but shade cloth should provide some protection. My major goal was to keep my birds away from our pond.

Have you all watched the YouTube video that @Molpet posted earlier in this thread? Sad but very informative. I think that they use foam for the huge commercial poultry houses where everything is automated and it’s impractical to dispatch individual birds. Most USDA efforts for AI and HPAI are...

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…

I’m in Oklahoma and have been following this thread. I just wanted to add that, according to our local newspaper, we had a wild duck test positive for HPAI in Payne Co, where I live. I haven’t seen this show up on the APHIS site yet...