More controversial pigeon bird flu culling

2010-10-08 China Times Zheng Wei Wu / Gao County stories

▲ general for the prevention and appreciation from the controversy of the pigeons, one may be a few dollars to buy 10, fanciers can not accept that they are easily worth millions of racing pigeons in the culling of compensation on a par. (Cheng Wei Wu Chang)
Taiwan racing culture heyday, in case of racing pigeons infected with avian flu, fear the rapid spread of the epidemic is difficult to control, the COA has commissioned scholars interviewed by the group of racing pigeons, pigeons for bird flu to cull out a set of compensation standards, fancier News are quite concerned about the information, fanciers of the view that the huge stakes involved in racing pigeons, culling will result in heavy losses, even if compensation is also difficult to enforce.

Outpatients, the Tainan County, bird flu, a poultry farm in the blue magpie, Mikado pheasant, Golden Rooster and other infections have been culled, and breeding farms have proven racing pedigree to test bird flu virus is not only escape survive.

Council of Agriculture has recently commissioned Professor CH Tsai from Taipei interview with pet birds breeding industry, the racing community, will provide the industry's views on the Council of Agriculture Research provides pet birds, pigeons culled remedies.

Pingtung "Qingtian will" CEO Wuzong Ming pointed out that the seminar held in Kaohsiung, as compensation for culled birds of different cognitive, discussion no conclusion. He said the pigeons usually kept in pigeon holes, before contact with the outside birds and pigeons, high body temperature, is unlikely to bird flu, and racing pigeons worth is high, government compensation not enough, so the racing industry is difficult to identify culling practices.

National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, said Professor SS Tsai, pigeons and chickens almost body temperature, the chicken will be infected with avian flu, birds are also possible, academic research in Hong Kong, the H5N1 avian influenza virus was injected into the body pigeons, found to disease.
Taiwan University professor Cai Xiangrong of Veterinary Medicine, also said the sensitivity of different influenza in different birds, pigeons are more resistant to the birds, not easily infected with low pathogenic avian influenza, but may be infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, Thailand to cases of H5N1 infection in a pigeon.

Xiao Ting Kaohsiung County, the original pigeon fanciers, caused by Chang Chien Chang believes that the high quality of racing pigeons worth, the government is difficult to compensate, especially during the racing season, the stakes are in the hundreds of million, if there is a collective bird flu racing pigeons were culled loss is very heavy, and the pigeon fanciers will hide, so even if there is culling remedies, I am afraid it is difficult to enforce.