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https://www.oderso.cool – In 2016, bird flu broke out again in Germany. Shortly before compulsory housing was announced here in Lower Saxony, I prepared the chicken coop for bird flu and the associated safety regulations. For all chicken keepers who are affected, here is my way of preparing for compulsory housing and the measures. Now, in 2016, the H5N8 virus broke out in Germany. Unlike the H5N1 virus that has been circulating in winter in recent years, it cannot be transmitted to humans. Bird flu usually breaks out in winter because migratory birds are on the move and so they transmit the stuff to local birds, chickens, ducks, etc. via droppings, for example. Avian flu actually comes from Asia, but here too it means that small chicken farmers and keepers like me have to lock up their chickens and geese, etc. To make this as bearable as possible for the animals, Franzi and I built an additional coop (dining room) in which the chickens can eat and drink during the 2016 bird flu. So that they can also stretch their legs, we set up a 20 square meter quarantine tent and connected it to the actual coop with crawl tunnels for puppies and children. Our chickens can "board" the tunnel via a self-made gateway and no longer come into contact with wild birds and their droppings, but can still dig a bit. Everything was easy up until then, but then the Friedrich Loeffler Institute announced further safety measures for bird flu in Germany (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and 8 other federal states). You now have to set up disinfection basins, put on gloves, face masks, shoe covers and full-body suits before entering the coop. Super annoying, but an epidemic is an epidemic and since I don't want Henning and our other beloved chickens to get sick from it, we stick to it as best we can. But the federal government's approach is still a little incomprehensible. The regulations are full of security loopholes and ways to get around them. Some farms with geese can, for example, get special permits and continue to let their livestock out into the fields. And in the event of an incident (they find the pathogen in a single animal), the entire chicken / duck / geese population is culled (killed) quite unscrupulously. It has been proven that wild birds etc. have always been able to carry the pathogen naturally. If you have chickens yourself and are wondering what you should do in the case of bird flu (H5N8), watch this video. Whether you really do what we do is something you have to find out for yourself. Long live the poultry farmer. We'll manage it Fynn Kliemann Want to browse further? https://www.oderso.cool