Aunty e Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 3 dead mute swans BBC report here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Oh no, not more bad news! I think there are lots poultry farms in Dorset. Hopefully it will be sorted quickly and turn out to be a very isolated local case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Oh no! What a shame. Dare we hope that they have flown in from somewhere else rather than picked it up here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Man Banned Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Thats what I was hoping for too. It would be awful if it was present here. such awful news A xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronze Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 You've got to feel for the peopel who work at the sanctuary too. So much work rescuing these beautiful birds only to have the lot of them culled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helly Welly Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Thankfully the swans won't be culled at the moment as they are all wild birds and there is the fear that they will panic and therefore spread the disease further. I worry that this outbreak is potentially far more serious than the others as they are wild birds on wetland and cannot be contained or brought indoors. Surely the swans will have lots of contact with other wild birds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubereglu Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 TBH I don't think this outbreak is too serious, it's at Abbotsbury swanery, (I've been there!) and at the minute they're closed to the public as it's not nesting season. I suspect they'd just flown in as they do over there and were from outside the UK carrying the virus. As well as this I suspect that bird flu may have been around a lot longer than we suspect in this world, it's just because of the media hype it's come into the spotlight and decided to test nearly every dead bird. What's more worrying is the way defra have been dealing with it, because there is a poultry farm quite close by and defra hadn't even told them about the outbreak firsthand and they're heard it from other sources first. I think the surrounding poultry farms now have all their birds undercover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachel19 Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 I saw this on the bbc news and they were interviewing some guy there who shoots pheasants or something and the newsreader accidentally said, 'so i understand you shoot peasants' he quickly covered it up tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menagerie Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 it's a worry as it's not a million miles from here. They're not culling the swans which is a relief. They reckon they got it from other wild birds as the swansdon't migrate much. I think they're hoping the flock will build up immunity and the outbreak won't spread much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 it's a worry as it's not a million miles from here. They're not culling the swans which is a relief. They reckon they got it from other wild birds as the swansdon't migrate much. I think they're hoping the flock will build up immunity and the outbreak won't spread much. It will be interesting to see how far it does spread. They will have us believe that free ranging birds are at greater risk of this, yet others say it will not spread the same in healthy, outdoor birds. It would be good to se proof of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
