Authored by Ryan Morgan via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
The Biden administration is considering the mass vaccination of the poultry population in response to an ongoing outbreak of avian flu that has killed off millions of birds and has helped spike egg and poultry costs.
There are some existing vaccines for farm birds, but U.S. Agriculture Department spokesman Mike Stepien told The New York Times that no vaccination effort has been authorized and the department is unsure if the existing vaccines will be effective against the current strain of H5N1 bird flu. Erica Spackman, a researcher for the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, told the newspaper that scientists are researching new vaccine candidates to help curb the ongoing bird flu outbreak.
Thus far, the Biden administration has made no decision to impose a poultry vaccine mandate.
“There are a range of options the United States regularly considers when there is any outbreak that could affect the security and safety of the United States’ food supply,” the White House National Security Council told news outlets on Monday. “Right now, we are focused on promoting and enhancing high-impact biosafety practices and procedures.”
Instead of a bird flu vaccine program, many farmers have instead been culling millions of their livestock. At least 52.3 million birds were killed off throughout the United States in 2022.
“The Department of Agriculture continues to respond quickly whenever the virus is detected among bird populations,” the National Security Council said on Monday.
Bird Flu Risks
Bird flu can be deadly. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia died last month after becoming infected with H5N1.
Bird flu can spread to humans through direct contact between a person and a farm bird or between a person and a contaminated surface. Bird flu contaminants can also spread through droplets or dust particles that a farm bird could kick up when it flaps its wings.
For now, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention assesses that the risk of H5N1 spreading to humans remains low. That said, disease researchers have heightened concerns over growing numbers of infections among wild birds and some mammal species and the possibility the virus could evolve to spread more easily between people.
Vaccine Program Would Have Trade-Offs
Vaccinating millions of farm birds could be a complicated endeavor, and while a vaccine program may be able to slow or prevent the spread of the bird flu, it could also trigger trade bans.
“We don’t have any assurance that any of our trading partners would accept our products if we began vaccinating any birds,” Julie Gauthier, the USDA veterinary service’s assistant director for poultry health, told Lancaster Farming in October.
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Not my chickens. No trust whatsoever in government
What could make more sense than to have a bureaucrat in D.C. who has never seen a live chicken tell someone who raises them how to do it?
It doesn’t HAVE to make sense. It’s “THE PLAN”. They WILL be moving forward, but you and I both know what a gargantuan pain in the ass it is likely to be to treat 40 or 50 million chickens.
Nothing they’ve planned will go smoothly, if at all. That’s how it goes when idiots run things.
Yes, and IF your dog needs the rabies vax make sure you don’t use the vax coming from Zoeti, I know I won’t be..
When I buy eggs I only buy cooped up, daily PCR tested, triple boosted, masked, virtue signaling no cluck, gender neutral Rooster eggs.
If we have to start breeding our own chickens in civilian America, NO ONE will be sleeping in from that point on.
Screaming roosters are the REASON humans know that everything tastes like chicken!
ooh, does little baby need his thundershirt?
You missed, organically fed & climate change free. Thanks for the morning LOL.
Phew, I thought I was the only one being a little picky.
Is there a single person in the room who believes anything the Biden Administration does will help any single chicken or person?
My chickens resumed laying after I switched them to 18% livestock sweet feed, dog food and started digging up the compost daily for all the worms and grubs a hen can eat. And, by the way, they will literally eat until the food sticks in their “craw” and I’ve seen crickets hop back out.
That’s probably more than you ever wanted to know about a chicken’s craw but at least I didn’t tell you about killing twenty rabbits with my retarded friend Larry yesterday.
But, I may. It is still early.
Once the weather warms up the best source of feed for your poultry flock are insects and worms. We lay sheets of plywood, metal roofing, even cardboard on the ground around the coop area and every morning we lift the sheets up and the chickens feast like it’s a buffet. Just keep moving them from place to place. The advantages are that you speed decomposition of the poultry manures by attratcing worms and giving them cover of darkness to do their job, you increase the populations of a huge spectrum of soil dwelling creatures, you dramatically increase the protein in your flock’s diet and you egg production goes up by 20% or more.
We gave up on commercial feeds years ago by focusing on alternatives and it has been not only successful, but has saved us a huge expenditure.
I can see this working quite well and worth the efforts. But what do you do in winters if you’ve given up on commercial feeds??
anon a moos,
Kale is the perfect cold-weather crop plant to grow for chicken feed…I put five long rows of it last fall and reaped a lot of chicken feed during winter.
Other forms of leafy greens such as lettuce, cabbages, and spinach are also a delicacy for your chickens.
Kale, as well as other leafy greens, add a lot of vitamins and minerals.
Kale will continue to grow as long as the chickens don’t scratch up the roots and only eat the leaves…that wasn’t a problem in my fenced in garden area.
Rape Seed is another winner winner chicken dinner!
Many common garden cover crops — alfalfa, clover, annual rye, kale (and its close relative, rape)…— provide abundant feed for poultry.
Rape grows quickly and grows very rank if not cut back It is the cheapest green food for summer and early fall.
Anyone having a summer egg trade in fancy eggs cannot find a better egg producer and it also gives a richness to the egg. The leaf is very tender and succulent and is greatly relished and easily digested It is an ideal greenstuff for the range in which young chickens are growing.
Nothing much green overwinters here. If I had more ground to grow food in, I’d use it for people instead of chickens. Still doing good just because my chickens range everywhere.
How long does it take to clean those types of rabbits once you get good at it?
When flocks of chickens die suddenly, just remember how much worse it could have been….
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They’re gonna kill the chickens and any critters that don’t die and make to our digestive tracts with kill us, too.
F*****g idiots.
Suicidal idiots, mind you. That usually ends predictably.
1 very sad death of a child from bird flu does NOT a pandemic make. Hope the vax mandate is nixed. Funny how all this came up after “studies” have shown eggs can help prevent covid or so I’ve read…
Recall how just 3 years ago the WHO declared a ‘pan(dem)ic’ based on less than 1,600 deaths across the globe …
Time for pure blood chickens!
Camouflage your chickens as ducks!
A duck is just a waterproof chicken with a kazoo!
Duck eggs actually aren’t bad. I know people who prefer them to chicken.
Save the musical ducks!
We loved our duck eggs but the male duck would not stay off the chickens so I traded the pair for two egg-laying hens and young frying rooster. Was a decent trade.
I think I was 10 or 12 the last time I had one. I remember a rich mellow taste with a hint of butter. They may have been poached. It was 50 years ago.
Biden Admin Evaluating Mass Poultry Vaccination
Time to call……
A ten year old ate a corn dog from a street vendor and developed food poisoning. We need to vax the country against food poisoning. If we can just save one life it will be worth it.
Sfience “In the pursuit of saving just one life,
we kill and maim millions.”
Because vaccinating in the middle of an outbreak is always a good idea… /s.
I mentioned this before. These asshats are going to force the mrna shit into our systems by literally poisoning all livestock AND wildlife. They are trying to cut off your ability to forage or grow your own food and remain healthy. They will try to make you register your livestock or make it illegal to own unregistered livestock, for everyones safety of course.
This satanic cult cabal isn’t going to stop with the plans for complete control, they mean to destroy everything.
Yes we receive notifications from the USDA or whatever and their new thing is voluntarily participate in the new farm census! It’s helpful to you dontcha know.
always voluntary, until it isn’t.
I so want the govt to protect me from everything imaginable. We need a guy like crying adam to be prez, he cares.
‘Bird flu’ … same as the ‘FauciFlu’ … brought to US by the same DoD folks, too.
Good thing the DoD is fighting Viruses and Flus. Could you imagine if they were fighting the citizens?
WILD TURKEY…
It’s not just for drinking any more. It’s what’s for dinner!
That wild turkey will get the mrna treatment too, soon enough. These cultists will place bait stations to ‘inoculate’ wild life from these scamdemics we’ve suffered from. Its for our safety remember.
Life finds a way my friend. Ingestion is the least effective way to transmit the shit they’re spreading, so I’ll rely on God’s Providence and eat till I die. At least it won’t be from starvation.
Welcome to Globalist hell…biosludge spread on the farm fields and your meat sources contaminated with spike protein…this is how you make them “eat zee bugs.”
Cal Maine who owns three very large chicken farms said none of their chickens have been infected with any
kind of virus. This is all BS! Constant fear mongering is what they live by. Can’t wait to hear the next
blast of fear mongering.
Just another plan for killing chickens. In Philippines they are currently targeting the pigs. Any mention of the possibility of swine flu has governors rolling out the restrictions. We all know what the real aim of all this is. Fortunately millions of households keep their own chickens and a few pigs, which is about the only solution I can see for what the US is facing right now.
Decentralize, go small. Simplify?