Bird flu detected in Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana birds as outbreak widens

[Lovin Jesus]

(If you think the price if meat has gotten a bit more, Expect the cost of poultry to skyrocket!)

Avian flu has now been detected in flocks of birds in Virginia and Kentucky, just days after Indiana officials had to euthanize 29,000 turkeys due to the spread of the virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday.

Dozens of wild birds have tested positive along the East Coast in recent weeks, including three in the Carolinas last month. Avian flu usually does not cause any symptoms in wild birds, but it can be deadly in domestic poultry.

Birds at a commercial turkey farm in Southern Indiana contracted the virus last week, forcing officials to cull 29,000 turkeys in an attempt to stop the spread.

Officials are also working to depopulate a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky, that tested positive for the flu. Test results are still pending for a separate flock in Webster County.

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[ChildofLight]

Sad for the farmers as well as the consumers.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

Higher prices, less food availability due to natural disasters (1930s Dust Bowl, 2022 viruses in livestock) ~ did we somehow travel back in time to the 1930s because this is all looking very reminiscent of what I've read happened during The Great Depression.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

We had bird flu 2014-2015. Prices for chicken and eggs didn't rise that much, but availability, especially of eggs, was seriously impacted
Some stores rationed eggs to one dozen per customer. Some places cut the cartons in half so people that only wanted/needed half a dozen could just get that and more people could buy eggs.

 

[Carl]

Dad worked on a chicken farm about 74 years ago. The farmer just couldn't get ahead of the sickness. He wound up killing his whole flock. Then have to disinfect the whole property and get new flock.

 

[Shannon70]

Good time to go vegetarian.

 

[Andy C]

Good time to go vegetarian.

 

[TrustinHim]

Good time to go vegetarian.

Think about raising your own chickens. If people do this they will avoid literally putting all their eggs in one basket.

 

[Carl]

Think about raising your own chickens. If people do this they will avoid literally putting all their eggs in one basket.

Only problem with that is that there are communities that do not allow people to keep more than one pet and food animals are on the exclusion list.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Only problem with that is that there are communities that do not allow people to keep more than one pet and food animals are on the exclusion list.

Bunnies are very quiet and can be raised indoors

 

[Carl]

Bunnies might be considered as pets. Otherwise yes could probably raise them on the sligh.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Good time to go vegetarian.

Good time for an all beef burger!

 

[Tall Timbers]

Bunnies are very quiet and can be raised indoors

The neighborhood in Wyoming where I made an offer on a house limits a household to a maximum of 4 pets. Even if you eat your bunnies you'd have to pretend they were pets until you slit their throats, bled them out, gutted and skinned them and through them in the pot for bunny wabbit stew.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

The neighborhood in Wyoming where I made an offer on a house limits a household to a maximum of 4 pets. Even if you eat your bunnies you'd have to pretend they were pets until you slit their throats, bled them out, gutted and skinned them and through them in the pot for bunny wabbit stew.

If they're inside, who's going to know, unless someone says something? It's not as if they have *inspections* Just sayin'

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

The neighborhood in Wyoming where I made an offer on a house limits a household to a maximum of 4 pets. Even if you eat your bunnies you'd have to pretend they were pets until you slit their throats, bled them out, gutted and skinned them and through them in the pot for bunny wabbit stew.

Remember to treat and keep the hides/fur. Nice, soft, warm mittens, hats, and boot liners. Jackets after a few years

 

[Tall Timbers]

If they're inside, who's going to know,

Nosy neighbors

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Nosy neighbors

Maybe they have bunnies, too