{"id":95707,"date":"2025-02-18T15:14:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/to-limit-bird-flu-spread-keep-wild-birds-away-from-poultry-livestock-food-blog\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:14:37","slug":"to-limit-bird-flu-spread-keep-wild-birds-away-from-poultry-livestock-food-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95707","title":{"rendered":"To limit bird flu spread, keep wild birds away from poultry, livestock &#8211; Food Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/food\/\/blogfiles\/110351_original.png\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"postphoto\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A mass of ducks and other waterfowl congregate in and around a pond.\" style=\"text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/ucanr.edu\/blogs\/food\/blogfiles\/110351.png\" alt=\"A mass of ducks and other waterfowl congregate in and around a pond.\" width=\"650\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Wild waterfowl carry the virus that causes avian influenza. Knowing when wild birds are close to farms, farmers could help prevent birds from mingling with their domestic animals and passing along the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><em>Waterfowl Alert Network data help assess risk of avian influenza H5N1<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Every winter, millions of migratory birds fly south to warmer locales, passing over California Central Valley dairies and poultry farms. Many of these wild waterfowl are carrying the virus that causes avian influenza, based on the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s wild-bird surveillance, says Maurice Pitesky, University of California Cooperative Extension poultry specialist in the School of Veterinary Medicine at UC Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Bird flu has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\">killed millions of birds and disrupted milk and poultry production<\/a>. In California, highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 has been detected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdfa.ca.gov\/ahfss\/Animal_Health\/Avian_Influenza.html\">commercial and backyard flocks<\/a> of poultry and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/livestock-poultry-disease\/avian\/avian-influenza\/hpai-detections\/hpai-confirmed-cases-livestock\">dairy cows<\/a> and, more recently, poultry and dairy workers have become infected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the largest animal disease outbreak we&#8217;ve ever had whether you look at geography \u2013 we&#8217;ve had six or seven continents affected \u2013 or whether you&#8217;re looking at species,\u201d Pitesky noted. \u201cFrom a public health perspective, it&#8217;s important for us to sound the alarm before this becomes a bigger problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To contain the disease, USDA is testing milk for the avian influenza H5N1 virus and farmers are supplying poultry and dairy workers with personal protective equipment.<\/p>\n<p>To avert future outbreaks of avian influenza from infecting livestock, Pitesky recommends reducing the overlap of waterfowl habitat with farms that raise animals. This would help prevent birds from mingling with the domestic animals and passing the virus to cows, pigs and poultry. <\/p>\n<p>Knowing where waterfowl roost can help farmers and other stakeholders make informed decisions about protecting their flocks and herds.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on their research, Pitesky and his colleagues have developed the <a href=\"https:\/\/waterfowlalertnetwork.com\/tracker\/\">Waterfowl Alert Network<\/a> to provide data about locations of waterfowl roosting and feeding.\u00a0The network uses data from satellites, weather radar and land-based environmental sensors. Farmers and agricultural agency personnel can use it to assess the risk wild birds pose to farms. This information can be used to identify risky habitat in close proximity to farms with the goal of shifting habitat away from farms. This might entail, for example, flooding fields that would provide waterfowl habitat in an area at a greater distance from farm animals.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne thing we need to consider in the medium- to long-term is the concept of waterfowl habitat shifting away from food animal production,\u201d Pitesky said. \u201cWe know how to do this. This approach would allow us to optimize food security for our livestock and poultry while also providing habitat for waterfowl, which are vital to our ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\/h3&gt;\n\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wild waterfowl carry the virus that causes avian influenza. Knowing when wild birds are close to farms, farmers could help prevent birds from mingling with their domestic animals and passing along the virus. Waterfowl Alert Network data help assess risk of avian influenza H5N1 Every winter, millions of migratory birds fly south to warmer locales, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12026],"tags":[45386,3029,20634,3767,16707,13201,13900,2074,597,20749,14859,45387,16533,809,23413,19473,11239,5701],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-95707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","tag-avian-influenza","tag-bird","tag-birds","tag-blog","tag-dairy","tag-diet","tag-flu","tag-food","tag-health","tag-limit","tag-livestock","tag-maurice-pitesky","tag-obesity","tag-organic","tag-poultry","tag-spread","tag-sustainable","tag-wild"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>To limit bird flu spread, keep wild birds away from poultry, livestock - Food Blog - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=95707\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"To limit bird flu spread, keep wild birds away from poultry, livestock - Food Blog - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wild waterfowl carry the virus that causes avian influenza. 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