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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 341521" data-attributes="member: 314"><p>I find it interesting that the ONLY solution the govt. folks have is to kill every bird in the flock, but then they all ask for people that see birds behaving strangely in their own flocks to call them so they can test the flock.&nbsp; WHY would any chicken owner willingly call when the only solution is total loss of your birds???&nbsp; It never said in any of the reports of these so called &quot;Positives&quot; that the birds were symptomatic, sick, or dying.&nbsp; Just that they tested positive, with the same PCR tests that have been proven problematic with false positives numerous times in the past.&nbsp; Bird flu comes in two flavors from what I can tell, Low Pathogenic and High Pathogenic.&nbsp; High Pathogenic has high mortality in birds and the other doesn't do much of anything and neither infects people.&nbsp; Why kill all the birds?&nbsp; Why not let the flu take it's course thereby leaving the resistant birds in the flock and improving the flocks genetic health??&nbsp; Seems to work for wild birds just fine.&nbsp; I just find it odd that instead of trying to build bird flu resistant poultry flocks, we kill them all and only accomplish reducing the supply of meat and eggs.&nbsp; Seems to me we are shooting ourselves in the foot as bird flu is uncontrollable in wild birds and we will continue to have this problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 341521, member: 314"] I find it interesting that the ONLY solution the govt. folks have is to kill every bird in the flock, but then they all ask for people that see birds behaving strangely in their own flocks to call them so they can test the flock. WHY would any chicken owner willingly call when the only solution is total loss of your birds??? It never said in any of the reports of these so called "Positives" that the birds were symptomatic, sick, or dying. Just that they tested positive, with the same PCR tests that have been proven problematic with false positives numerous times in the past. Bird flu comes in two flavors from what I can tell, Low Pathogenic and High Pathogenic. High Pathogenic has high mortality in birds and the other doesn't do much of anything and neither infects people. Why kill all the birds? Why not let the flu take it's course thereby leaving the resistant birds in the flock and improving the flocks genetic health?? Seems to work for wild birds just fine. I just find it odd that instead of trying to build bird flu resistant poultry flocks, we kill them all and only accomplish reducing the supply of meat and eggs. Seems to me we are shooting ourselves in the foot as bird flu is uncontrollable in wild birds and we will continue to have this problem. [/QUOTE]

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