The virus is highly contagious and will affect 100 percent of your birds given time and kill most of them 😥😥
Blame domestication if you want to blame something.
Blame factory farms that keep 100thousand birds locked up.
Blame the consumer that wants cheap meat....
The risk is to commercial growers - we are talking about commercial growers that have hundreds of thousands of birds and eggs.
If this one backyard grower's bird were to remain shedding virus for up to 6 months, who's to say she wouldn't carry this virus on her boots etc, to the local feedmill...
So sorry for this - we have known about this influenza here in Canada since February - it was in the news constantly. Most of us know what to look out for and kept our birds (chickens and water fowl) inside until the migration ended and the wild flocks settled down - thus preventing spread of...