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Letter Re: Being Prepared for an Avian Influenza Outbreak
Sir,
Please pass on a reminder to people to prepare themselves with a plan and supplies
to deal with for the inevitable event [of an Avian Influenza outbreak]. Begin by practicing impeccable agricultural
hygiene and discouraging any visitation of persons near their barn yards,
hen houses and migratory wildlife flocks of geese or ducks on or near their
ponds, open water sources or feed sources. This is best done with a couple
of good herding type dogs who don’t mind getting their feet wet in
the ponds or on the property watering holes. Our chickens are free range,
yet they are blocked from the access of the open water sources, and their
supple mental food and calcium sources are kept away from access of migrating
and indigenous species of birds. The dogs also help with poultry predatory
losses from fox, coons and hawks. - KBF
