Bird Flu

[Venti]

2 hours ago, Mr. Alli said:

Bros

 

[Jacksgranda]

4 hours ago, ICTChris said:

Yes, you guessed it.  After Covid and Monkeypox, it's the next infectious disease thread!

The country is currently bracing itself for the consequences of a bird flu outbreak.  As opposed to previous animal-based pandemics, the main impact of this appears to be on, er, birds.  More than 100,000 hens have been culled at several poultry farms across Scotland.  In England captive birds and poultry have been required to be kept indoors for the last 10 days - this requirement is not in place in Scotland and some poultry farmers suspect their birds were infected by wild geese.  A dozen swans were found dead in a Glasgow park of suspected bird flu with other cases seen in the Western Isles, Aberdeenshire and Ayrshire.  The chief vet of Scotland defended their actions by saying "We are just following the science".

Aldi and Lidl have both restricted the number of eggs that consumers can buy at one time due to the supply issues caused by the outbreak.  The impact of having so many fewer hens could be felt for a long time with the prospect of egg supplies being reduced into next year.

Have any P&Bers started wearing a mask and socially distancing from chickens in response to this?

Is anyone panic buying eggs?

 

We will be now, thanks for the heads up.

[coprolite]

10 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Why?

 

 

[Derry Alli]

3 minutes ago, Venti said:

 

Bros B4 Haus, bro.

[Venti]

1 minute ago, Mr. Alli said:

Bros B4 Haus, bro.

Thought you'd be Reading Karl Marx, Crying at Dens Park.

[Billy Jean King]

I'm a bit confused about how different bird species transfer the bug to each other, it's not like they generally socialise much outside their own kind.

There is / was an outbreak in a poultry farm near us. It's an indoor barn production set up but the barns are not secure enough to stop sparrows etc getting in (attracted by the heat, light and loose feed). These sparrows come in, feed, fly back out then do likewise in other settings thus potentially spreading the disease.

[Sergeant Wilson]

44 minutes ago, Rugster said:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/watch-moment-woman-gives-cpr-10254443

 

Location depending, if I can't pretend not to have seen it. I'd kick out the way. If it was in the garden. I'd shovel it up and put it in next door's bin.

[hk blues]

35 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Location depending, if I can't pretend not to have seen it. I'd kick out the way. If it was in the garden. I'd shovel it up and put it in next door's bin.

You're kidding nobody, you've kissed worse

[Sergeant Wilson]

6 minutes ago, hk blues said:

You're kidding nobody, you've kissed worse

Not when they're dead.

Clean and a pulse are my usual criteria.

[hk blues]

2 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said:

Not when they're dead.

Clean and a pulse are my usual criteria.

"Usual" - but willing to make an exception in some circumstances? 

[Sergeant Wilson]

3 minutes ago, hk blues said:

"Usual" - but willing to make an exception in some circumstances? 

I'm nothing if not flexible.

[Sergeant Wilson]

54 minutes ago, oaksoft said:

Yeah, the first thing I always do when I see a collection of dead birds lying in the street is walk right over and pick one of them up with my bare hands. 

Entirely normal behaviour. 

 

To be fair, the buzzard and geese suggest it wasn't Gordon St.

A diet of Blue Lagoon chips and Gregg's products have slowed the pigeons and seagulls down a bit though. The taxis get them long before the bird flu.

[Shandon Par]

Found two dead buzzards in April (not killed by my dog, honest). Handed them over to the bird police folk and they emailed me to say they’d both had bird flu. 

[throbber]

19 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Found two dead buzzards in April (not killed by my dog, honest). Handed them over to the bird police folk and they emailed me to say they’d both had bird flu. 

I ran over a buzzard once.

[Bigmouth Strikes Again]

25 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Found two dead buzzards in April (not killed by my dog, honest). Handed them over to the bird police folk and they emailed me to say they’d both had bird flu. 

I see loads of them on my way to work, perched on fence posts, dry stone walls, beautiful raptor/bird.

eta They've now got this to cope with, as well as Tory b*****ds poisoning them.

Thank you.

Edited November 17, 2022 by Bigmouth Strikes Again

[Jacksgranda]

24 minutes ago, Shandon Par said:

Found two dead buzzards in April (not killed by my dog, honest). Handed them over to the bird police folk and they emailed me to say they’d both had bird flu. 

The police or the buzzards?

[Shandon Par]

7 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said:

The police or the buzzards?

Good question. I’ll check the email. 
 

 

Edited November 17, 2022 by Shandon Par

[Sergeant Wilson]

1 hour ago, throbber said:

I ran over a buzzard once.

No point in giving that one a lemsip.

[Moomintroll]

I am seeing a lot of Control Zone signs posted around the North Wales/English border over the last few weeks. They seem to be utterly random & I have nary a clue as to how they will help in any meaningful way.

[jamamafegan]

Yeah, the first thing I always do when I see a collection of dead birds lying in the street is walk right over and pick one of them up with my bare hands. [emoji23]
Entirely normal behaviour. [emoji23]

You think I found dead geese and a buzzard in the streets? Lol

Why?

I picked up the woodpigeon for a closer look, it was completely whole and could have possibly died the day before. However as I picked it up I joined up the dots and realised what was going on. A scavenged goose carcass. Then a dead, decomposing buzzard, followed by a recently dead pigeon. Seemed a bit more sinister than a coincidence and I was right.