Avian Influenza

[AGR]

Not me, a mates shoot they have lost a lot of pheasants to AI and very few partridge.

It does seem that partridge are not generally affected. Or as badly affected.

 

[AGR]

By all means deal with the situation on your own way!

I have a good friend who is a wildfowler, and he’s taking his own bio security steps When he goes to the Marsh, he knows he’s ****ing in the wind and getting wet legs, but he feels as if he’s doing his bit to not transfer the disease from one place to another, which frankly is all you can do!

As for recovery as well, that’s just a guessing game, I spoke to one of my landowners this morning where my roe deer ground is and he informed me the fields look like the Somme , dead birds everywhere, geese, ducks, pheasants, buzzards, crows and seagulls you name it.

He also said he was speaking to one of the gamekeepers on a part of the farm, and they said they’re shooting regardless this winter, even if they have to stick the birds on the muck heap!

Personally, if that was me, I wouldn’t even bother going as I can’t bear the thought of something going to waste just for the sake of pulling the trigger!

They are bound to shoot, that or carry on feeding something which may die shortly anyway.

 

[Klenchblaize]

I see those who disagree with hunting/shooting haven’t missed the opportunity to implicate the organisers of pheasant shoots and even suggest the flu is welcomed by the shooting community as just one post on a birdwatching forum attests:

“Tory government. And the real problem is the pre-release conditions: release time was always going to be biological WMD. Maybe for shooters that was the point: might lose a year's shooting but hammer the raptors and corvids.”

K