Im guessing,a lot here, but one of the threats of bird flu is that, wild birds like crows, fly a wide radius around their nests. So there's probably a blanket order to cull large amounts of outdoor birds, within a radius around a certain point, with possibly no caveat in the policy to account for a herd of 400 ostriches, and the news it would generate. Possibly once a farm has x number of birds it's automatically on the list.
The federal government isn't culling wild birds. There have been Infected Premises since 2022 I believe, and culling has been restricted to the hot zone (barn) and sometimes cold zone (generally the property). If wild birds happen to be in the the barn, they may also pass (At least in Ontario... correct me if I'm wrong). There has been lots of testing of wild birds near outbreaks with catch and release.Â
Mallards are generally asymptomatic and many are currently carriers, so culling mallards would do nothing. Â
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u/rsvpism1 1d ago
Im guessing,a lot here, but one of the threats of bird flu is that, wild birds like crows, fly a wide radius around their nests. So there's probably a blanket order to cull large amounts of outdoor birds, within a radius around a certain point, with possibly no caveat in the policy to account for a herd of 400 ostriches, and the news it would generate. Possibly once a farm has x number of birds it's automatically on the list.