What's better for the Bird and You?The Secretary of Agriculture said it.
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What's better for the Bird and You?The Secretary of Agriculture said it.
Saw this sadly about Ducks on Long Island:$6-7 for Eggland's best here. No shortage, lots of stock. Your restaurant is gouging.
Make your hard boiled the nigh before. Peel them, wrap them tighly in cellphane, and eat them cold the next morning. mmmmm.
I have not found an answer on why they have to kill the flock because they got the flu? Anyone know?
Thanks for sharing. But it highlights my confusion. "This disease is carried by wild birds and all it takes is one of them defecating into an animal pen".Saw this sadly about Ducks on Long Island:
AQUEBOGUE, N.Y. -- A major bird flu outbreak has hit a Suffolk County poultry farm.
Dozens of state and federal agricultural workers dressed in biohazard suits, sanitized boots and gloves were assisting Wednesday in the euthanizing of an entire flock of 100,000 ducks at Crescent Duck Farm in Aquebogue, officials said.
Crescent, Long Island's last remaining duck farm, is now in quarantine and survival mode.
"They call it highly pathogenic avian influenza because it is really serious for bird flocks. It can just wipe out an entire flock," Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. Gregson Piggot said.
Bird flu threat to humans remains low, health officials say
Killing the birds at the farm is expected to help keep other farms safe, yet there are fears of future H5N1 mutation that could make humans more vulnerable.
Avian experts are monitoring the situation at the Suffolk County farm.
"This disease is carried by wild birds and all it takes is one of them defecating into an animal pen. It lands on the feed or on the ground it can then spread throughout your flock," said Kate Perz, of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
The Corwin family, which runs Crescent Duck Farm, has had to lay off 47 of its 75 employees. It now fears for the future of the business as it is facing a complete halt in revenue.
The Secretary of Agriculture said it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-sec-agriculture-said-americans-010747739.html
that statement came from a brain-dead, out-of-touch political appointee who hasn't seen a live chicken since their 2nd-grade field trip to a petting zoo
Same here. We had several chickens that laid more eggs than we ate. We started letting the neighbors have some, but it got to the point where we couldn't GIVE them away. (Wouldn't be the case today, obviously) A hawk eventually took the last chicken and that was that. Chickens are a lot of fun, but also a lot of work. If I did it again, I would have just two.We had 6 laying hens for a few years ...