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H5N1 bird flu in Dorset

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:02 pm
by red

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:28 am
by Smooth Hound
thats not good :pale:

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:58 am
by farmercoop
Great! Just what we need!

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:16 pm
by kimmie
everyone goes on about this now and then, but no one ever tells you what to look out for...or the symptoms?! can someone please enlighten me?

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:32 pm
by red
dead birds I think are the main sign..

according to this defra factsheet there is swelling to the heads, and the combs take on a blue colour, they stop laying,, etc
pictures there too.

but some birds can have it without signs...

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:35 pm
by kimmie
thanks Red