
Direct Contact: Birds become infected through direct contact with saliva, nasal secretions, or feces of infected birds.
Contaminated Surfaces: The virus can survive in bird droppings and on surfaces like feed, water, equipment, and cages, spreading the disease when healthy birds come into contact with these.
Aerosol Transmission: The virus can spread through the air in enclosed or crowded spaces, such as poultry farms.
Migratory Birds: Wild migratory birds, particularly waterfowl, often act as carriers, spreading the virus to domestic birds as they travel.
Poultry: Symptoms are sudden death, respiratory issues, digestive issues, decreased appetite, and decreased egg production.
Swine: Respiratory illness, potentially leading to fever, lethargy, coughing, loss of appetite, and even death.
Bovine: Cows sick with HPAI may have diarrhea, fever, decreased milk production, decreased appetite, and discoloration of milk.
Avitrol works as a chemical frightening agent to deter wild bird flocks.
Here's how it functions:
Ingestion by Birds: Wild birds ingest the 4-aminopyridine treated bait while feeding.
Neurological Effects: The chemical affects the wild bird's central nervous system, causing erratic behaviors such as distress calls, erratic flight patterns, and convulsions.
Scaring the Flock: These distress behaviors and sounds alarm other birds in the flock.
The frightened birds perceive the area as dangerous and typically leave the site.
Mortality: While Avitrol is designed to act as a flock deterrent, some birds that ingest the bait may die due to the effects of the chemical.
Avitrol is a Restricted Use Pesticide, it requires a license to purchase!
If you do not have a license, you need to call a professional applicator