H5N1

[cod master]

H5N1 strain of birdflu comfirmed in scotland.......does this mean no pigeon racing in the next few weeks

[TheSaddler]

see <http://www.pigeonbasics.com/news/news286.html>

[mealybar]

Also see the Avian Flu Topic: http://www.pigeonbasics.com/forum/blah/m-1124999952/

and the Bird Flu in Fife Topic: http://www.pigeonbasics.com/forum/blah/m-1144269126/

[peterpau]

Can't see any reason why we can't carry on as normal apart from in the exclusion zone.  Things will probably change though.

[cod master]

think no racing at alll

[Deano]

I agree peterpau.theres no reason to stop racing apart from the exclusion zone.I dont see the point in stopping racing as its the wild birds that are spreading this disease.

[cod master]

all racing should be cancelld because pigeons go past wild birds

[Mike Lycett]

"Cod"

 

I susepct you're trying to wind me up!!     ;D ;D

[Guest]

all racing should be cancelld because pigeons go past wild birds

 

 

Suggest you get yourself clued up on the subject.

[Guest TAMMY_1]

RACING SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO CARRY ON AS NORMAL BECAUSE IF IT IS STOPPED THIS YEAR IT WILL LIKELY BE STOPPED FOR A COUPLE OF SEASONS { MY OPINION ONLY BASED ON THE TIME IT TAKES TO GET RIED OF THE VIRUS #] IT TOOK VIETNAM THREE  AND A HALF YEARS TO GET RID OF IT, BUT THEN AGAIN WE CANT REALLY BE COMPARED TO VIETNAM.BUT ONCE IT HAS TAKEN HOLD IT WILL STILL BE HARD TO GET RID WHEREVER IT IS.

[jimmy white]

my opinion is that  during next week , well all have a better picture  [that doesnt mean a better situation] but i hope so.

[cod master]

you carnt stop birds flying out of the exclution zone

[jimmy white]

or in to it??

[tam pepper]

 

 

                   tammy if it took vietnam3and a haff years to get rid of the virus , how long will it take ross finney and his traveling circus .

they excuse for not getting the swan from loch leven was they didnt have a boat ,

theres at least forty boats on the loch fitted with outboards for fishing . were paying goverment officialsfirst world wages and pensions , and getting third world service , they havnt a clue , they are running around like headless chickens with avian flu .

 

                                                          tam pepper

[Guest slugmonkey]

I would suspect that we will have it here in U.S. soon I have already began putting smaller wire up to keep out wild birds and I am not as leinant to commies that show up I used to try to move them by taking them across town but now I dont risk it I am flying for all I am worth now as I dont anticapate a yb season I hope I am wrong but I think we may be off a while

[Guest]

you carnt stop birds flying out of the exclution zone

 

 

Don't think anybody is trying to do that. What they are trying to do is to stop POULTRY becoming infected by preventing them coming into contact with (infected) wild birds.

[Guest]

I think we'll have a far rougher time in the USA Slugmonkey that they are having in the UK.

[MsPigeon]

Why Hyacinth? What do you mean a far rougher time?

[Guest]

/continued as soon as it hits here, our birds are locked down period don't want any of the silly peoply who beleive everything they see and hear on TV adverts about germs etc (you know the type I mean flushing the bog with her feet frightened of picking up germs from the handle) throwing fits about the birds and taking pot shots etc at them.

[Guest Silverwings]

hope none of the people training or racing at the moment ,get any late comers in that have been down for water ?  dont think i would like to run the risk ! think hyacinth has the right idea ..........ray

[MsPigeon]

I think so too! I know if the AI hits here I will keep our pigeons locked up! We have regular migratory birds stopping in here all the time, in fact a goose stayed here all winter this past year. But it's not just my pigeons I'm worried about! You can't keep ALL poultry and fowl locked in!

[Guest]

Carol

 

I won't even let my birds in the aviaries, passing migratory birds don't choose where they poop

[Guest]

/continued as soon as it hits here, our birds are locked down period don't want any of the silly peoply who beleive everything they see and hear on TV adverts about germs etc (you know the type I mean flushing the bog with her feet frightened of picking up germs from the handle) throwing fits about the birds and taking pot shots etc at them.

 

 

Understand your concern.

 

The media coverage here has been exclusively WILD BIRD (WATERFOWL, MIGRATORY) > POULTRY > SAFETY OF POULTRY PRODUCTS. (Pleeease keep eating them).

 

Not a word on TV or in newspapers about pigeons.

 

Expect the focus to remain firmly on wild birds & poultry; that's where the money is: worth £110m annually for Scotland, 3.1 million (or 31 million, depends on who is reporting    ) poultry in the quarantine zone. Pigeons are very small beer by comparison. So would expect the same focus in the US, Hyacinth WHEN the virus arrives, possibly with a few scary pigeons stories BEFOREHAND, to sell a few more newspapers .... thats been the experience here .. so far.

[Guest]

Carol

 

I won't even let my birds in the aviaries, passing migratory birds don't choose where they poop

 

 

For me, this is the major missing piece of the AI jigsaw: how does the virus / infection actually pass from bird to bird? Birds in general seem to be fairly hardy creatures. Watched our local waterfowl crap all over the grass on the pond banks, and then crop the grass; see them crap in the pond, then bathe in it, drink from it, and dive in it to crop pond weed growing on the bottom of the pond... see them successfully rear and fledge young every year, but I've yet to see any waterbird that didn't look 100% healthy????

 

 

[Guest]

Bruno

 

We've been treated to this already by a horror worse possible scenario show put out by the History Channel