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2 million birds at a single facility? :barnie Centralization of production is a huge problem. More distributed systems are more resilient to disruptions.

America's largest egg producer has been hit with avian influenza at one of their large facilities. This will likely have a noticeable effect on egg prices in the stores. Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. Reports Positive Test Result for Avian Influenza at Kansas Facility

Interesting. Not a single word about what is being done to show that vaccinated birds and their eggs are healthy to eat which is in the end the whole reason for raising these birds. That part of vaccination development seems to have suddenly disappeared from the industry. No wonder so many...

Not sure who you are talking about, but it certainly isn't me. I'm quite aware of various plagues that have come and gone over time. I'm also aware that the Spanish flu plague was fought largely with sun exposure, that the black plague was fought with sanitation, that measles, mumps and...

That "tall order" is precisely the path that every breed of bird (other than the few that are domesticated) will be following. I don't expect them to go extinct any more than their predecessors have over many millions of years of disease exposure.

So, precisely the same path as with Covid vaccines. Based on recent experience, the solution is therefore likely to be: Expensive and economically damaging (we are already seeing the latter). Trains people to ignore natural biological adaptation. Keeps people from looking for any alternate...

That's my point. Because entire flocks are being euthanized, we'll never find chickens that can actually survive this disease and pass on those genes. Locking down flocks makes perfect sense when an infection is detected. Government imposed massacres will never get us past this disease...

A creature can only develop resistance to a disease if it is allowed to survive the encounter. Unfortunately, current protocols for our flocks prevent that resistance from developing.

Sigh... Just posting this for future reference. This is the first step towards requiring mRNA treatments of domestic animals for human consumption. Edit: It will be wider than just poultry.

You can easily keep track yourself: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-commercial-backyard-flocks That page is for commercial/home flocks. There is a link to the wild birds page as well.

Agreed. The bulk of us with backyard chickens try to do much better by our birds.

Unfortunately, I didn't see anything in the article that said that would change. There literally was nothing in that article that indicated any better living or culling conditions for the existing flocks.

You need to read the article. It will stop not stop a single bird from being culled. Their idea is that after a disease-forced culling, the factory farm will be forced to a different way of raising the chickens. I'd certainly argue that the birds would be treated somewhat better, but it will...

I really doubt many local police departments are much aware of this. There is no reason that private sales shouldn't continue as long as the seller hasn't had problems and the buyer follows good quarantine procedures. There is no reason to make the soon-to-come chicken/egg shortage even more...

@TheBantamRooTwo Here is a link to the HPAI infection tracker. This page shows wildlife cases (MGG's screenshot): https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-2022/2022-hpai-wild-birds There is a link from that page to another one...

Because people still want them for egg production and other uses. If you keep your chickens in a covered coop/run, then they are strongly protected from infection. Water fowl are the primary transport vector from my reading.