Quarantine - 2 Locations

[lucy 0]

Hi All,

 

A discussion on another post made me think of this.

 

I have aviaries and my fiancee has aviaries and we live about 4 hours apart. We use recommended quarantine practices when bringing in new birds from outside sources, however because we treat all our birds simultaneously and ensure all the birds are healthy, we regularly swap birds between locations without quarantining them.

 

As I've looked at it, it's just like having one flock, but in seperate avaiaries. We haven't had any problems so far.

 

Can anybody see any possible problems with doing this?

[**Liv** 0]

It is a very interesting question Lucy - personally I would say it's okay, but only if you follow all quarantine rules when you introduce new birds (from an outside source) before they enter the flock/s

 

I do not quarantine my birds when i swap them between aviary's, and i would say your situation would be similar to just taking a bird from one aviary and putting it in another

 

How long is the travel distance between aviary's??

[Angelic Vampyre 0]

Lucy MB and I sort of do this and in the future will be doing it more. The only thing I would recommend is that you might want to keep them apart for 5 - 10 days to let them settle form the stress of being caught and moved before moving them into the avairy. But others might have a different opinion.

 

In the past few weeks I have found out how important it is to Quarantine but if all your birds are healthy just make sure to quarantine birds for outside sources for the full 30 - 60 days.

[**KAZ** 0]

Hi All,

 

A discussion on another post made me think of this.

 

I have aviaries and my fiancee has aviaries and we live about 4 hours apart. We use recommended quarantine practices when bringing in new birds from outside sources, however because we treat all our birds simultaneously and ensure all the birds are healthy, we regularly swap birds between locations without quarantining them.

 

As I've looked at it, it's just like having one flock, but in seperate avaiaries. We haven't had any problems so far.

 

Can anybody see any possible problems with doing this?

Does your avairies have closed roofs to stop infections from external wild birds.....i.e. droppings through open roof ?

[lucy 0]

Some do and some don't. Good point.

 

Our maintenance treatments combat any external infections though I would hope.

 

I think one of the key factors to quarantine is that you are not aware of the history of a bird and what its come in contact with. In our situation, we are aware of the bird's history and therefore reduces the need somewhat.

[melbournebudgies 0]

And also since you are in the same geographic region as each other birds are probably contacting the sam sorts of bugs from wild birds at both locations anyway. I don't quarantine my aviary birds from my inside birds if I bring a pair inside for breeding...

 

Healesville Sanctuary actually quarantines their captive birds before releasing them to the wild, they are more worried about introducing a bug from the captive population into the wild birds. They manage the wild birds and the captive birds as a single unit as part of the recovery program.

[**KAZ** 0]

Your birds can contract psittacosis through an open top aviary from an external bird amongst other diseases. Psittacosis meds are not part of normal preventative practices.

If you want to be moving birds around, you need to cover the aviaries and make very sure there is no reinfections from outside birds. We have all kinds of birds walking around on top of my husbands avairies all the time....but it is covered. And this is why I asked the question about covered aviary.

[lucy 0]

Thanks, certainly has given me food for thought!

[melbournebudgies 0]

AV and I will be moving bird between our houses but both of us have closed top aviaries and also a large proportion of our irds will be in enclosed bird rooms (both converted garages).

[Neat 0]

Kaz you are quick LOL.

That was the first thing I thought off - Open or close roofing on the avairies = Personally from bad experiences I have closed mine up!

 

Apart from that, if they are both kept the same Ie wormed, treated etc at the same time and what have you I really don't see the issue -