Bird Flu has struck near my area!!!!!!

It's in the newspapers for the past 2 days.... Hundreds of chickens are dead and the area affected is like 2.5km from my home..... will it be fatal to my birds? I keep my parrots all indoors and a pair for chickens and ducks outdoors..... Recently some authorities have gone house-to-house in the affected area and confisticate quite a number of chickens, ducks and pet birds..... this is making me so worried now.

Goosh!

2.5km is very near. Just hope for the best now.

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Do you where in Singapore we can get our bird vaccinated?

Anyone care to share some information.

Don't think this is necessary if your parrots are kept indoors and not in contact with any wild birds. Besides this vaccine is not available to the public. Anyway I will still check on the latest status.
I'm sure Rupert will have more info on this issue.

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Thanks for your reply, just want to prepare for an outbreak does happen, Some time wild birds do fly in to steal foods when I left the windows open.

Do keep us update if you have any info on this issue.

Best regards.

Hi,

Just want to update you guys about the status... now the flu outbreak have spread to Perak and latest to penang...

Do take care.

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Are you still keeping your ducks and chickens outdoors? I hope you will "get rid" of them as I am certain more checks will be made and they might even confiscate your parrot collection.

News today said that the chicken culling had stopped and they will do frequent checks of areas around 10km. This means still not safe but at least they stopped the culling. 800 chickens were culled today.

They are still outdoors but in a special enclosure that is walled up so people can't really see them but may hear the roosters crowing. Sigh.... now dunno how, so hard to let the ducks and chickens go.