No bird flu vaccine for my poultry

the reason we cant have the vaccine clive is because the strain is continually evolving, e.g there is no vaccine
we can protect against a certain strain but there are BILLIONS of other variations of the disease. so it is not cost efficient to produce millions of billions of diffrent vaccines if you follow? :)

believe me every sympathy is with your 'flock' as you say haha
but no point in blaming the DEFRA organisation as you can see

Respected Sir/ Madam

We are a trading company, we have activities in fields of poultry. We import and export poultry feed and related products. So we are interested in import Avian Influenza Vaccine H5N* for poultry to Iran.
If you are producer in these cases please send us the specifications, If you don't please inform us about this vaccine's producers or manufacturers.
Please be consider that if you can't have commercial relationship with Iran, our Spanish company can have business with you.


With best regards

Sarmen

Well Bird Flu isn't exactly in the media right now, but blue tongue and foot and mouth disease certainly is. Count yourself lucky that you PROBABLY weren't even affected after all

Smacks of government conspiracy. There's definately something they are not telling us about bird flu. Probably as a result of secret biological weapons testing or something

Yes, we don't seem to be hearing anything about it anymore. Has it all just gone away??!

Excuse the pun, the whole bird flu thing has died a death hasn't it, so why do we need a vaccine for pet chickens?

There are now any vexcine for BIRDFLU .Uses of disinfectent spray is provide saftey more then 65% against vireul infection

I don't think very many people realize just how many small flock owners are out there. Ranging from a couple birds to a small flock of 50 that a 4H kid raises and sells the eggs from. I'd be willing to give shots to all of them!

Clive, I hadn't thought of it like that and I can see your point about poultry farmers thinking of their birds as machines. I hadn't really thought of the 'pet' angle. In that case I would be clamouring for a vaccine myself, and may still do yet as we have seen recently there is no barrier to it crossing over to another species. I refer ofcourse to the cat in Germany that was on the news recently. Hmm Interesting.

Well said Scott, but from my point of view it's not just about losing a few eggs. The battery farmers etc are running an industry, they see their birds as nothing more than "machines". I keep four and they provide all the eggs I need and it would be fair to say that they have become "pets". It is surprising how tame and comical these creatures become and yes, they could be replaced. But, I do not want to replace mine and I think many smallholders would agree with me. There is medication out there and it should be made available to all.

I hate to point out Clive, but I think the vaccine is probably best kept for the big guys who have hundreds and thousands of birds. You're the little guy with a hand full of chickens or whatever for personal consuption. Bird flu strikes, you loose a few eggs. If the big poultry farmers get whacked, they loose their whole livelyhood and the outlets they supply loose out, the prices go up.

Don't get me wrong, I understand where you're coming from, but patience. You'll get the vaccine once we know how widespread bird flu is going to be in this country.

I have actually been in contact with the vaccine manufacturers and there's gallons of the stuff