Poultry registration

mattt44

Can we just bring this disscusion down to earth for a moment, no human to human pandemic flu is around atm and it may not happen.
If you have over 50 birds then you were already supposed to have registered them with the DOA.
If you have under 50 birds you have no legal reason to register them but you might want to do so.

You cannot, I repeat cannot get the flu from cooked chicken or eggs, unless you live with the birds and contact them face to face (literally) you are not in much danger of catching the BIRD FLU. Yes the BIRD flu.
Not the bird to human flu, because such a thing doesn't exist.

Its a shame if we have to bring in birds from outside, but what you would you prefer, some or all of them dying from BF?

Lets bring it into perspective people, its not the end of the world, yet.

Edinburghlass_2

This was the topic today on Jeremy Vine, Radio 2

You can listen again from the BBC Radio 2 website

nearlyrich

I really think it's being blown out of all proportion.
80 (?) people have died, they lived in close proximity with their birds and they died from the avian form of the disease, it hasn't become a human strain.

I will continue to buy and eat chicken from a reliable source as long as it's available.

melancholly

nearlyrich wrote:

I really think it's being blown out of all proportion.
80 (?) people have died, they lived in close proximity with their birds and they died from the avian form of the disease, it hasn't become a human strain.

exactly!
this is an interesting page on the bbc website - lots of info, probably more than you would ever need!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/world/05/bird_flu_map/html/1.stm

Strepsy

I won't be eating chicken as I'm vegetarian! but will keep buying/feeding it to hubby and kids unless there becomes good reason not to. Same goes for eggs.

Alfietinker

I've have a keen interest in the current avian flu crisis as I am expecting (and still hoping) to get my first 3 chooks at the end of March

Due to our being out the house so long the girls are going to live for the most part in a huge run. In order for this to qualify as 'indoors', we are modifying the plans to include a covered, onduline, roof with sufficient overhang to exclude wild birds droppings and wind blown droppings from above. The run is enclosed on one side by a wall anyway and the floor will be paved to enable easy disinfection and cleaning (covered with loads of wood chips so they can scratch). The mesh is of a sufficient grade to exclude entry by small birds. I am reliably informed by the folk on the poultry keeper forum that this will comply with any indoor confinment rules.

I am happy that the girls will be content in here for as long as is necessary. My main concern is there will be a restriction of movement of birds before we've collected them. In which case we'll have to wait until it's all blown over.

Just to clarify the situation as I understand it. At present humans can ONLY catch the virus through prolonged direct contact with poultry. No cases of infected poultry have been found in the EU yet. The virus is currently being spread by migrating mute swans flying west. Poultry can become infected by contact with wild birds' droppings, by contact with water that wild birds have visited etc. So keeping poultry indoors is not to prevent the spread of Flu (impossible) but to minimise the risk poultry infection, and thereby human infection.

On a lighter note, they'll be called Esmerelda, Florence and Daisy