Ostrich Cull in BC, 2025

[Navy_Pete]

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That's a weird comparison; no one has had a butterfly infestation of a house that has caused H&S issues, and they don't pollinate anything. People regularly kill moths in their house, and those can be as cool looking as a lot of butterflies.

These ostriches were being raised as food stock, so just fancy oversized chickens, so people upset over this cull but couldn't care less about chicken farms that would have 10,000+ birds culled for avian flu control are a better comparison.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Why is that ironic?? (I'm trying to follow the conversation, but I too feel like I missed something)

During the 1st Capitol Seige cops in Ottawa backed off the protestors who sat there breaking laws for a month.

It's ironic that the same protestors now criticize police for backing off the Palestine protestors allowing them to break laws in peace (vandalism).

 

[CBH99]

So in my pea brain these birds had avian flu which I gather is highly contagious and could spread to other birds? Am I right?

So the ostriches had initially been bred for food, but the owners of the ranch started doing medical research on them a few years ago - that takes them out of the food system.

And they had been tested near daily for nearly 300 days, and had never tested positive for avian flu.

The ones that had tested positive for avian flu had already been culled quite some time ago

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In my pea brain, I still don't get how killing a bunch of healthy ostriches that aren't sick and corralled in a seperate pen, and who hadn't ever tested positive despite extremely frequent testing - is going to somehow prevent the spread of avian flu

The birds that had tested positive were all kept in a seperate corrall & culled about a year ago. (The legal process has stretched this out by about a year)

So if there was going to be some sort of fallout from the birds that were sick, I imagine we would have seen some indication of that by now...??



But WTF do I know either? I'm certainly not a bird expert, nor a contagious disease expert, by any means