Nick Kulik

r ranson wrote:

Nick Kulik wrote:Thank you for your replies. Do either of you have a source I can check as to the difficulty of chicken to human infections as well as the route of infection being mostly through the eyes? From what I have read from the cdc it says that people who work with livestock and poultry are at highest risk.

I got mine mostly from the BCCDC since we have the first home caught case of bird flu in human in canada (this round), there is a lot of energy going into this kind of education.   Their youtube briefings are also useful.  We've lost a lot of flocks to culling in our area,  so I follow it pretty closely.

Wow and with that you’re not at all worried of getting sick/dying? You feel the PPE and bio security measures as well as one can do them on a backyard flock scale is adequate? Just curious, Seems rather terrifying to me

Thank you for your replies. Do either of you have a source I can check as to the difficulty of chicken to human infections as well as the route of infection being mostly through the eyes? From what I have read from the cdc it says that people who work with livestock and poultry are at highest risk.

Hello, I am having a very hard time deciding whether I should continue to have laying hens. I love them dearly and they bring me very much joy but I am extremely concerned at the risk of them transmitting bird flu to me. I have them in an enclosed run and coop with very little chance for wild birds to enter, although they could poop on it in passing because it’s not roofed but rather screened in, and I take bio security measures with myself including coop specific boots gloves and am sure to wash my hands after dealing with them. Even with all of this I feel as though having them puts me at an increased risk of illness and death compared to the regular population. Does anyone have any ideas to keep me safer? Small livestock options that can’t get me sick? Id really hate to get rid of my birds but it seems like the only thing I can do to ease my fear.
Thank you

I’m wondering what kind of food plants people have success with growing in full shade, around one hour of sunlight a day. I have fiddlehead ferns and winecap mushrooms so far but I would like some more diversity
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Hello does anyone have any experience with their winecap inoculations being out competed by blue wood fungus? I used hardwood chips from a dead but standing tree on my property mixed with some straw and layered with sawdust spawn in some holes dug in my garden beds. Most of the holes are being colonized by white hyphae (good) but two of them are almost void of winecap mycelium and instead are covered in a blue fungus that seems to be emanating from some of my woodchips. Even the pieces of sawdust spawn are covered in this blue fungus and the winecap mycelium seems to be getting outcompeted which I heard was almost impossible. Whats going on?

Thank you everyone those look like some excellent resources that I certainly will be trying! I’ve never thought of growing mushrooms as food in order to outcompete fungal diseases but the prospect is rather exciting, I love getting two outputs for one input! I’m now thinking of growing them under my sunchoke patch and my valerian bushes. What fun

I want to build disease resistance in the soil of my annual/perennial vegetable garden as well as in my fruit bushes as the incidence of diseases can greatly decrease my ability to seed save and grow a large variety of crops and has a massive impact on my resilience. Does anyone have any information on how to build disease resistant soils? I would be very interested if anyone knew how to inoculate your soil with fungi that would outcompete soil pathogens. I am aware of Trichoderma Harazium but being roped into buying them every year (as my climate is too cold to overwinter them) does not align with my views. Thank you!