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will hunting be banned??

scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
edited September 2006 in General Discussion
the 17th person has now died in the US from bird flu...(I didn't know anyone had died) will the outbreak spread to wild stocks and if so will hunting be banned? what can be done to check for bird flu in ducks pigeons geese doves pheasants? turkeys grouse, partridge quail.
chukkar, huns. snipe woodcock tarmegin. brant, shovelers or cranes
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  • CubsloverCubslover Member Posts: 18,601 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Banning bird hunting would probably make a considerable cut in state revenues. Some states more than others. Hunting for sport may not be banned, but the government may do something to warn hunters about eating their harvest.
    Half of the lives they tell about me aren't true.
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  • spanielsellsspanielsells Member Posts: 12,498
    edited November -1
    In Colorado, hunting is the #2 industry behind tourism (I would have thought skiing would generate more $$ but apparently not, unless they count skiing as tourism).

    They didn't ban deer/elk hunting with CWD, they just told hunters to be careful.
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  • mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
    edited November -1
    They will ever ban hunting,only on paper, & in the head of the straights...for the man in us ,it is instinct..

    & natural..[;)]
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  • scottm21166scottm21166 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited November -1
    I don't think you have to eat the animal...to get bird flu...stuffing a few birds in my hunting vest should be enough exposure...has anyone heard of wild populations getting the disease?
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  • mondmond Member Posts: 6,458
    edited November -1
    i heard of a couple of guys who got wiped out with some kinda rabbit flue...i'll get the name of it!!just have to do a scan...
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Tuleremia is rabbit fever, also affects rodents.
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  • spryorspryor Member Posts: 9,155
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by He Dog
    Tuleremia is rabbit fever, also affects rodents.


    Is that what some armadillo carry..? I remember a customm knifemaker
    talking about maybe using a stabilized dillo tail for a knife handle,
    and someone warning of some wicked disease they carry.
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