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Posted: 12 January 2008 09:41 am | 1st Post |
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Environmental officials were today visiting poultry farmers and smallholders throughout the control zone set up around the Dorset swannery where three birds were found to have the deadly H5N1 flu strain.
Defra staff were examining birds for signs of the disease and urging farmers to report any possible symptoms as government vets awaited the result of tests on more dead birds discovered near the Abbotsbury swannery.
The infected birds had been found by routine surveillance, and efforts were under way to discover where the virus came from.
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Posted: 15 January 2008 09:47 pm | 2nd Post |
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Interesting reading thanks form me
At the end of the day we are all aware that this is a thing we are going to have to live with along with all the other illnesses chickens get .
Good housing( clean and dry) clean water, good food out of the reach of wild birds,and a watchfull eye every day without fail will spot an ill bird as we should all be doing as a matter of course in looking after poultry. fast action will stop any spread of any illness what ever that illness is.
Just another thing to deal with
Happy smallholding
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