Bird flu outbreak????

Tikka391

So what's the craic with this new outbreak of bird flu and out shooting season.

There's confirmed cases on a turkey farm in Meath, very close to our club grounds.

So can? and how could this effect us in relation to our pheasant shooting?

alex90

It's not dangerous to humans when meat and eggs are cooked properly. The reason they're culling birds is for bird welfare, better to cull than to let them get bird flu and die a slow death. I'd say shoot away and eat anything you shoot unless it looks really unwell.

Tikka391

Yea, it's if the shooting would be stopped is what i was wondering really ?

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123966073#Comment_123966073

They cull the birds to stop the disease spreading to other flocks. That's it. It's to reduce the economic cost.

Oscar_Madison

Can’t see Irish guidelines online but I didn’t search too hard - if shooting is permitted there’s advice below around limiting the spread of bird flu if shooting in or near an infected area.

Sounds like good practice should be not to shoot close to an infected area to limit the spread- but not sure what the actual rules are

https://www.nfuonline.com/updates-and-information/avian-influenza-and-game-shoots-advice-for-members/

skipking

I presume any club with pheasants in a pen will not be able to release them now.

Grizzly 45

Unless your pheasents were in contact with wild birds that were infected,usualy migatory wildfowl.Work away.

SuperBowserWorld

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123966204#Comment_123966204

Actually it looks like some bird flu has a 100% mortality rate!

"An outbreak of a highly pathogenic strain (HPAI) on a poultry farm can lead to devastating consequences, including mortality rates approaching 100%,"

"A general lack of genetic diversity in commercial poultry, which are often maintained in crowded conditions, makes them particularly vulnerable to avian flu"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza

tonysopprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123980789#Comment_123980789

Easy to have a 100% mortality rate when you just kill-off the whole flock